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2006-11-25 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Fred 2006-11-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So Polonium 210 is the red kryptonite, right?

Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-25 05:50|| 2006-11-25 05:50|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if that Polonium is traceable.

Posted by Grunter 2006-11-25 06:20|| 2006-11-25 06:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Putin is a thug and a dictator.

He's the second coming of Stalin.

He's certainly no friend of the US

Posted by RJB in JC MO 2006-11-25 08:58|| 2006-11-25 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Come a long ways from Mexico City and ice picks.

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-25 10:17|| 2006-11-25 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Heh, Ship. Nice arcana ref. ;-)

Posted by .com 2006-11-25 10:18|| 2006-11-25 10:18|| Front Page Top

#6 He's got strong Chechen "links" and rumoured to have converted to the religion of peace...

There's no murder enquiry yet.

How long should Polonium take to kill? I reckon he got given it in hospital.

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-11-25 10:23|| 2006-11-25 10:23|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought it was a hatchet or an ax. An ice pick would have been pretty elegant for Stalin.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-11-25 10:42|| 2006-11-25 10:42|| Front Page Top

#8 IIRC it was an ice axe such as used by mountain climbers.

Posted by PBMcL 2006-11-25 13:09|| 2006-11-25 13:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Ice pick, aka a Euro Ice Axe.

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-25 13:18|| 2006-11-25 13:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Everything's smaller scale in Paradise.

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-25 13:19|| 2006-11-25 13:19|| Front Page Top

#11 Just a little good-natured transposition:

Trotsky was successfully attacked in his home by a Stalinist agent, Ramón Mercader, who drove the pick of an ice axe into Trotsky's skull.
- Wiki - Leon Trotsky

Posted by .com 2006-11-25 13:41|| 2006-11-25 13:41|| Front Page Top

#12 It was an Ice Pick, aka, what they call in Europe (the little countries) an Ice Axe.

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-25 15:50|| 2006-11-25 15:50|| Front Page Top

#13
Fooooooooooooey! Rong Again! Damn, that's 4 times today. Here's a picture of possible mccoy.
<img src="http://static.flickr.com/112/305951404_8beca585cb.jpg"/>

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-25 15:57|| 2006-11-25 15:57|| Front Page Top

#14
Ima make Hiakoo
ånd checker the preview for all
the goodness of it

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-25 16:01|| 2006-11-25 16:01|| Front Page Top

#15 Yeah, BPinB, what's this I hear about Litvinenko converting to Islam? Kavkaz sez
aw crap, copy/paste doesn't work w/ Firefox.

Anyway, Kavkaz sez the Chechenpress news agency sez that he "converted to Islam some time ago," and that a mullah from a London moskkk performed Muslim rituals at his deathbed.

????

Posted by exJAG 2006-11-25 20:04|| 2006-11-25 20:04|| Front Page Top

#16 This type of poisoning should be a wakeup call to the west; now terrorists will work on the unique properties of the alpha wave nature and light mass nature of this potential wmd source! For instance; a non mechanical delivery system (ie: a balloon filled with Polonium 210 within a balloon filled with Helium).

Posted by smn 2006-11-25 21:17|| 2006-11-25 21:17|| Front Page Top

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