(via Right Truth) Cakes laced with poisonous thallium has shown up in Iraq. It has already killed two children, and has made the secretary of the Iraqi air force club and his daughter critically ill.

The UK government has flown antidote medicine to the Middle East after some Iraqis became seriously ill from eating cakes laced with the poison thallium.

Two of the victims, both children, died after eating cake delivered to a military club in Baghdad.

Others are being treated in hospital in the Jordanian capital, Amman.

It is the first time the deadly toxin has been used since the downfall of Saddam Hussein, whose regime used it to kill its opponents.

At least two of the poison victims, the secretary of the Iraqi air force club and his daughter, are critically ill in Amman.

They and half-a-dozen other patients suffering from thallium poisoning were flown from Baghdad to Amman as the necessary treatments and antidotes were not available in Iraq.

Britain responded to a request for help from the World Health Organization and medication was flown out.

You might remember this from “Santa is getting kicked out“:

In general, the perception of the Russian public hasn’t been helpful either. Remember the recent poll that found that 50% of Russian youth thought that on the whole Stalin was a force for good.

And don’t forget the apparent poisoning of anti-Putin Ukrainian presidential candidate Yushchenko, or the rightfully publicized KGB-esque poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in Britain. (Putin was KGB, remember) Or you could just look at the number of Russian dissidents who are being gunned down or who have simply ‘disappeared’.

As far as this most recent stunt goes, we can only wait and see what comes of it, but whatever happens, it probably isn’t going to make foreign relations between our two countries any easier.

That last statement remains true. I’m sure someone could get Thallium, and it was used by Saddam’s regime. Of course Weapons of Mass Destruction were also used by his regime, and they seem to have vanished into the night not existed. So where did this come from? Some store of Thallium that Saddam had left and was never found or cataloged? If so, it makes you think about what else he might have successfully hid…

I’m just saying. We know the Russians like to assassinate people with this stuff. Saddam had it. Saddam and the Russians were communicating about WMDs and illegal weapons systems before and during Iraqi Freedom. Could be something, could be nothing more than a well-connected grudge.

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