Yushchenko Aide Alleges 'KGB' Plot

[Moloch]

Dec. 12, 2004 — A Ukrainian presidential candidate's chief of staff believes "Soviet Union … sort of KGB experts" were behind a plot to poison his candidate, the aide told ABC News' "Good Morning America" today.

Austrian doctors said Saturday that Viktor Yushchenko, who faces a Dec. 26 runoff in Ukraine against the Kremlin-backed candidate, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, was poisoned with dioxin as he campaigned for president.

When asked by ABC News' Bill Weir if the Russian government, and specifically President Vladimir Putin, had anything to do with the poisoning, Yushchenko chief of staff Oleh Rybachuk said: "I am not very positive about government, but what I might say that was Soviet Union … sort of KGB experts are clearly involved in this plot."

Rybachuk did not directly implicate Prime Minister Yanukovych in the poisoning, which is believed to have happened at a dinner party in September, but said it was a much broader conspiracy.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=322922

[teryang]

1. Pretty ineffective plot

So ineffective that it makes me feel that someone else is responsible.

[makhno]

2. He's hitting all the right buttons

Bringing out the commie boogeyman like it was '84!

[daleo]

3. Why use dioxin?

Like the KGB didn't have poisons way more effective and easier to hide? Instead they use a poison where you have to pour half a cup in a bowl of soup (supposedly) to administer a lethal dose? And your victim still doesn't die? Something just doesn't compute about all this.

[wordout]

4. wordout to Yushchenko Aid:

youre full of crap.