Pixelated Semantics

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Dorian Gray with pockmarks

There's an interesting transcript of an ABC Radio interview with "writer and espionage historian" Nigel West covering "The political uses of poison":

The general principle of assassination falls into just a few categories. Firstly, those assassinations where it is pretty obvious - that's the bomb and the bullet. Secondly, there is the concealed assassination, where it could be a helicopter crash or a road accident, where nobody is absolutely certain that an assassination has taken place.

And then you have the assassination where it is unknown that an assassination has taken place - that is the administration of some kind of toxin or poison that is undetected in a forensic examination, and there are plenty of examples of those over the years - the use of prussic acid in gas form, for example, which mimics the symptoms of cardiac arrest, or the use of plutonium dust, which develops virulent cancers and kills people within a few months.

Ukrainian Presidential contender Yushchenko is given particular attention, and earns the description of "Dorian Gray with pockmarks" from the writer.

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