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] "There is no doubt about the fact that Mr. Yushchenko's
] disease has been caused by a case of poisoning by
] dioxin," Zimpfer said.
]
] "What we can say at this point is that this concentration
] constitutes an amount which is 1,000 times above the
] normal levels that you would find in blood or tissue."

Doctors: Yushchenko was poisoned - Dec 11, 2004

] COLUMBUS, Ohio -- At least five people died and two
] others were wounded after a shooting at a Columbus
] nightclub on Wednesday night, NBC 4 reported.
]
] FeedRoom
]
] Nightclub Shooting
] FeedRoom
]
] The shooting took place shortly after 10 p.m. at Alrosa
] Villa, located at 5055 Sinclair Road.
]
] Two members of the heavy metal band Damageplan were
] reportedly shot and killed, including Dimebag Darrell,
] formerly with the band Pantera, NBC 4's David Wayne
] reported. The other band member's name was not released.
] The alleged gunman also died at the scene, Wayne
] reported.
]
] Shortly after the band began playing its first song, a
] man reportedly ran onto the stage and began shooting,
] according to a witness who identified himself as Sean.
] Some members of the audience reportedly thought the man
] running onto the stage with a gun was part of the band's
] act, NBC 4's Erin Tate reported.

Crazy People + Guns = Bloody Christmas.

nbc4i.com - News - At Least 5 Dead, 2 Wounded In Nightclub Shooting

] NEW DELHI, Dec. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- India and Russia
] announced Thursday that they would hold their first-ever
] joint army exercisenext year and increase their
] investment in a joint venture that makes the BrahMos
] supersonic cruise missile.

Russia and India partners.

Xinhua - English

] MARK BENJAMIN: Well, with respect to the wounded, the
] Pentagon does report a number that it says is the number
] of soldiers that are wounded in the war. I think we're
] running around 7,000 or 8,000 in Iraq. But what that
] number does not include is the number of soldiers who are
] wounded or ill, or injured in operations that are not
] directly due to the bullets and bombs of the insurgents.
] So, for example, as of mid-September, if you take
] actually Afghanistan and Iraq together, there were 17,000
] soldiers who were injured or ill enough to be put on
] airplanes and flown out of theater, and none of those
] casualties, and I call them casualties because they fit
] the Pentagon's definition of casualties, none of those
] casualties appear on any public casualty lists.

Democracy Now! | The Forgotten Casualties of War: Over 17,000 U.S. Troops Wounded

] However, both Yanukovitch and Yushchenko are not good for
] a job of Ukranian president. Millions have seen
] Yanukovitch falling under throwed egg during his election
] campaign. Big swine looking man just felt on the ground
] with his hand on his chest. From egg's impact huge man
] felt on the ground. He thought that the bullet hited.
] Poor thing that Yanukovitch man, about 150 kilograms,
] over-weighted. But the bullet is supposed to be a part of
] presidential job, a part of profession. Every monarch,
] every elected leader of a state should expect one day to
] be assassinated. If leader falls under egg it is
] laughable leader. More laughable if he weights 150
] kilograms or so. Even if a bullet hits a President of
] State, he, President, should fall with a dignity, as
] statue in full length, with heroical smile. I am no an
] admirer of President Reagan, but Reagan behaved well when
] Hinckley shooted at him. He looked brave, Reagan, I mean.

Edward Limonov, a famous Russian-exile-revolutionary-bisexual-poet's take on Ukraine.

What is that all hustle about? - By Edward Limonov

] On the evening that I'm writing this, the 24th, thousands
] of shaven-headed pro-Yanukovich marchers and local police
] and security from the Donetsk region were seen entering
] Kiev in huge columns. Reporters who interviewed their
] mothers said these the columns of young men were rounded
] up from their Donetsk-region factories and schools and
] shipped directly to Kiev. The army is reportedly massing
] outside of the capital with armored columns. They have
] already deployed some armored personal carriers and large
] Kamaz trucks packed with sand, creating barricades and
] dividing up the city.
]
] Their effect is already evident this evening. The orange
] flags and colors of the opposition are disappearing as
] opposition protesters have retreated to safety, staying
] inside and communicating by phone.
]
] When the CEC declared Yanukovich the official winner
] tonight, women in offices and stores broke out in tears
] all across the city. Kiev's one day of revolutionary
] freedom is over. It's unlikely that Kiev can stand up
] against such an army of soldiers, police and
] lumpenproles. The opposition is too dispersed and doesn't
] have a direct plan for taking over power. Ukraine is
] faced with either civil war or dictatorship. It looks,
] for now, like dictatorship.

The eXile's take on the crisis in Ukraine.

eXile - Issue #203 - Who's in charge?

] But winning is dangerous, if you don't have discipline.
] The Russians pulled out -- and the Chechens turned into
] monsters. The biggest industry in the country was
] kidnapping. They kidnapped more than 3,000 Russians in
] cross-border raids between 1997-99. To convince the
] relatives to part with the ransom, they released videos
] of some hardworking loony sawing off the hostage's head
] with a sheepgutting knife. Another video I saw shows the
] Chechen kidnappers shooting off a Russian hostage's
] finger, then laughing as he cries in pain.
]
] All these gory hostage videos coming out of Iraq -- it
] was the Chechens who were the pioneering filmmakers. Not
] sure there's an Oscar for most innovative Terrorist Film,
] but if there is the Chechens deserve it.
]
] Meanwhile Shamil Basaev, sort of a Chechen version of
] Nathan Bedford Forrest, launched incredible raids deep
] into Russia, which ended with hundreds of Russian
] civilians dead. The Chechens were so confident of Russian
] weakness that they actually tried to invade the Russian
] republic of Daghestan, take it over, and create an
] oil-rich independent Muslim country on the Caspian Sea.
] The original quagmire: elephant shown here stuck in mud,
] awaiting hyenas.
]
] The original quagmire: elephant shown here stuck in mud,
] awaiting hyenas.
]
] All this gore was good for one guy -- a little colonel
] named Putin. He sent the Army back into Chechnya with
] better plans and supplies in 1999. They did much better
] this time around -- wiped out the big rebel units in a
] few months, and took Grozny the smart way -- by razing it
] to the ground from afar before sending in Russian
] soldiers. It made him so popular that Yeltsin stepped
] aside, and Putin is still just about the most popular
] leader since, well, Stalin.

About military Quagmire

eXile - Issue #203 - War Nerd - The 2004 Quagmire Bowl! - By Gary Brecher

] There have been 1,380 coalition deaths, 1,234 Americans,
] 74 Britons, seven Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, two
] Estonians, one Hungarian, 19 Italians, one Latvian, 13
] Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two
] Thai and nine Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of
] November 26, 2004. (Graphical breakdown of casualties).
] The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines,
] airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose families have
] been notified of their deaths by each country's
] government. At least 9,326 U.S. troops have been wounded
] in action, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon does
] not report the number of non-hostile wounded. This list
] is updated regularly. For a historical look at U.S. war
] casualties, click here, and to view a list of casualties
] in the war in Afghanistan, click here.

10,706 total U.S. casualties. Why don't we hear THIS number more?

Casualties List at CNN.com

] Given that completion of the Bulava and development of
] its land variant is still years away, Putin was probably
] referring to the Topol-M or re-entry vehicle, said Ivan
] Safranchuk, head of the Moscow office of the
] Washington-based Center for Defense Information.

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