It's so hard to find good spooks these days

Using dioxin to poison a prominent politician.

Good grief. They're implying it was the Ukranian security chief that did it, since Yushenko had dinner with him the night before he went to the hospital. But that sounds just too blindingly dumb.

Even if Yushenko's over the immediate crisis, his liver is probably jello, and he's bound to have tumors starting all over his body.

Dioxin is no clean way to go. Look at what happened to the Viet Nam vets hit with agent orange . Are the spy agencies in the new Russia that amateur?

This sounds more like a traditional Poppy Bush Company hit, and less like the old KGB Putin headed- and certainly not Tenet's CIA.

You want a martyr? Feed him dioxin, so the whole world can watch him die. Feed him dioxin, so he can continue to rage against you more effectively than ever before as he slowly falls apart.

How incredibly stupid.