Dioxin poisoning? You tell me

[underpants]

This composite photo depicts Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine's opposition leader and top presidential candidate, before and after his mysterious illness. On the left, Yushchenko is seen after he submitted his candidacy papers in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on July 4, 2004. On the right, Yushchenko, with his face disfigured by illness, is seen at the presidential Mariinsky palace in Kiev, Monday, Dec. 6, 2004. The cause of the illness that has left Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko's face pockmarked is still not known, the director of the hospital that treated him said Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004. rejecting a report that the presidential candidate was poisoned.(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

[jus_the_facts]

1. after only 5 months.....it completely disfigured his entire face......

......that just CANNOT be the same person in both o'those pictures! :scared:

on edit....if it IS him...looks more like VOODOO than dioxins....freaky inDEED! :wow:

[Bush was AWOL]

2. Probably Putin

a man Bush called a valuable ally in the war on terror.

[russian33]

10. Yeah, Putin got nothing better to do than poison a guy...

..that was going to run for President of Ukraine...before all the pity nonsense about opposition poisoning him, he didn't have a good chance in winning.

[annabanana]

3. yes.. ap link here..

Ukrainian former Prime Minister and presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, with his face disfigured by illness, speaks to the media during a news conference in Kiev, in this Friday, Nov. 19, 2004 photo. Experts trying to figure out why Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko fell seriously ill during the country's presidential campaign are testing a number of poisoning theories but have no conclusive evidence he was poisoned, doctors have said. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20041211/D86TG4EO0.htm...

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VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Dioxin poisoning caused the mysterious illness of Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, doctors said Saturday.

Tests run over the past 24 hours provided conclusive evidence of the poisoning, Dr. Michael Zimpfer, director of Vienna's private Rudolfinerhaus clinic said.

"There is no doubt about the fact that Mr. Yushchenko's disease has been caused by a case of poisoning by dioxin," Zimpfer said.

Yushchenko has accused Ukrainian authorities of trying to poison him in the runup to a presidential vote. Citing fraud, Ukraine's Supreme Court voided the outcome of that vote, which Yushchenko lost to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. A rerun of the ballot is slated for Dec. 26.

Yushchenko first fell ill in September and was rushed to the Vienna hospital. He resumed campaigning later in the month but with a pockmarked and badly disfigured face.

[charlie]

4. He's lucky

His case is mild compared to a couple of the ones here (Warning: gross pics)

[xultar]

5. He looked like an Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro combo before.

Shame on Putin and his evil cronies.

[amazona]

6. absolutely

Looks like it to me, and indeed I believe there's a thread in LBN where they have confirmed it.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. Greenpeace seems to think there is a problem with having these sorts

of chemicals scattered throughout our world... maybe they know something that we don't? Looks like they have issue with it in Vietnam as well.... dioxin, short hand for Agent Orange.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Dioxin Information Clearinghouse

http://www.ejnet.org/dioxin/

[spanone]

9. Putin you think?........ Bush* saw Putins soul and liked it!

Birds of a feather.