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Dirt Bag Down? Muqtada Al-Sadr Comatose In Iranian Hospital
2008-03-06
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Posted by:Fleretle Sletch8616

#26  Polonium won't register on a Geiger counter.

Sure it will. Geiger counters were invented to detect alphas. Get a drop of urine on a slide, dry it, and test with a Geiger counter. (You can't just hold a Geiger counter up to him, I agree.)
Posted by: KBK   2008-03-06 21:56  

#25  FEDEX - I wanted it to arrive before all the bacteria flavor died
Posted by: Frank G   2008-03-06 20:39  

#24  I mailed him some fruitcake I'd kept since the fall of the Shah.

Heh, Frank. Did you ship it via DHL or just drop it from low earth orbit?
Posted by: SteveS   2008-03-06 20:24  

#23  Rugelach.
Posted by: lotp   2008-03-06 20:02  

#22  More seriously, I'd be willing to bet that Tater is diabetic.

Poor guy, I should send him a nice cheesecake.
Posted by: DMFD   2008-03-06 19:58  

#21  I mailed him some fruitcake I'd kept since the fall of the Shah. Imagine MY surprise
Posted by: Frank G   2008-03-06 19:52  

#20  I was going to send a card but Walgreens doesn't have the one I had in mind.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-03-06 18:56  

#19  So where is the Aruba-style reporting on his condition? Inquiring minds wanna know....
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Anchor Point, AK   2008-03-06 18:09  

#18  Chavez is busy shooting himself in the foot, food poisoning is unneeded, he'll do it to himself.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-03-06 16:33  

#17  Whatever he ate, I hope Chavez gets some too.
Posted by: Iblis   2008-03-06 15:53  

#16  "geiger counter going apeshit"

Then it isn't polonium. Polonium won't register on a Geiger counter.
Posted by: crosspatch   2008-03-06 14:39  

#15  Sorry Pappy
Posted by: Icerigger   2008-03-06 13:52  

#14  News from the Polonium Report:

Hair falling out- check
gums bleeding- check
uncontrolled vomiting- check
geiger counter going apeshit- check

"I have it, Dr. Mohammed!"
"What is it, Dr. Radionski?"
"Food poisoning, Big Mac most likely."
"Death to America!"
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2008-03-06 13:12  

#13  Thought he was in Iran; not Iraq. Bad taters?
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-03-06 13:03  

#12  maybe the crack Persian-Russian medical team will save him but leave him crippled, requiring a colon bag and with a facial tick
Posted by: mhw   2008-03-06 12:52  

#11  Confirm #10. It was early this week. The Rantburg article was linked to the Memri Blog and the Memri blog referenced as source: Al-Siyassa, Kuwait, March 3, 2008. I haven't seen anything else since to confirm this.

Note: Bad link. The rantburg link comes back to the article.
Posted by: tipover   2008-03-06 12:38  

#10  That was posted here a few days ago....
Posted by: Pappy   2008-03-06 12:02  

#9  If Iranian doctors don't kill him, russian ones surely will. The only worse possibility that I can imagine would be Gaza doctors.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-03-06 12:01  

#8  Breakfast at Khan's.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2008-03-06 11:59  

#7  Doesn't an advanced case of botulism sometimes lead to / mimic a coma?

Dr. Steve?
Posted by: lotp   2008-03-06 11:50  

#6  More seriously, I'd be willing to bet that Tater is diabetic. He has the look.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2008-03-06 11:46  

#5  Who the hell goes into a coma from food poisoning? Unless it's the sort of food poisoning you get after meeting with dodgy Russian intelligence types with rumored unofficial connections with the presidency.

Which would, I suppose, explain the Russian physicians.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2008-03-06 11:45  

#4  I'd like to think that some Delta Force type just snuck up behind him, tapped him on the shoulder, and whispered, "Boo..."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2008-03-06 11:43  

#3  Food poisoning? I wonder who put the poison in the food.
Posted by: Abu Uluque (aka Ebbang Uluque6305)   2008-03-06 11:31  

#2  Russian doctors? Might as well bury him now and save on the embalming fluid.
Posted by: Mike   2008-03-06 11:18  

#1  Bad Diet. Musta been something he et. <:)

gawd what a load.... of specialists!
Posted by: RD   2008-03-06 10:51  

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