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cal04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 01:12 AM
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US doctors helped treat Ukraine's Yushchenko for dioxin poisoning
US doctors traveled to Vienna in December to help treat Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko for dioxin poisoning, officials said, while denying there was any political motivation.

US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Yushchenko was seen by doctors from the University of Virginia."We provided what I would call limited routine assistance to them," the spokesman added.

"I would note that the department and I think others in the US government provided lists of qualified experts at the request of the family. And it was the family that ultimately chose the University of Virginia doctors."

The Washington Post reported earlier that the US doctors went on a secret mission to Vienna to treat Yushchenko.

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050311/afp/050311205603people.html
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Trillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 01:21 AM
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1. Did they take the taser-wielding thugs along? nt
Edited on Sat Mar-12-05 01:22 AM by SimpleTrend
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 01:30 AM
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2. Perhaps they were well acquainted with dioxin poisoning due to Viet Nam.
Agent Orange was dioxin after all. The U.S. government would be uniquely qualified to recommend specialists for dioxin poisoning.
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 07:57 AM
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3. Exactly, no one knows more about Dioxin poisoning
...perhaps this is why such an unlikely and ineffective toxin was chosen for the purported "assassination attempt."
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susu369 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 09:46 AM
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4. Yushchenko's wife Kateryna worked for the US State Dept.
at one time. I'd like to know more about her as she raises my suspicious side.
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