SKIRMISHER

Saddam Hussein’s warm, jolly way of sending off his former enemies and dissidents was through a slow-acting poison called thallium sulphate, happily administered by his clowns called “The Secret Service.”

Hundreds of Iraqi dissidents met their end in similar fashion. Thallium’s slow action enabled the poisoners to adopt a particularly sinister tactic: dissidents would be released from prison, and even allowed to emigrate, but not before their food or drink had been laced with a fatal dose. Sometimes, it was administered during a “reconciliatory” drink with the prisoner’s former guards.

Just so you know.

via TIMES

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