Poisoning Enemies

[Shadow]

International Doctors have confirmed that Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine’s opposition leader – who suffered a mysterious disfiguring disease, was poisoned with pure TCDD- one of the most toxic chemicals around.

Dutch forensic investigators have determined that Mr Munir, one of Indonesia’s outspoken opposition activists, had died of arsenic poisoning on a flight from Singapore to Amsterdam.

All these have left me wondering weather the tactic of poisoning enemies offers advantages that bullets, bombs and daggers don’t

If I remember correctly I read from some where that the lives of many Roman emperors were curtailed in this fashion, often by their own family members and the roman as someone called a master poisoner who knew how to mix otherwise innocuous ingredients into potions of death.

So I there really since a person and are there other empires that too used this art after the fall of Rome ? and are poisoning a better choice of assasination then guns and daggers ?

[Krusader]

I've read sources that ninjas used poison sometimes. I also think poison was used alot in the Italian city-states of the medieval & Renneissance era.

I also think poison was used in the nordic kingdoms, as there were some mushrooms known to be lethal to eat.

Im fairly certain most European & Asian countries have used poison to remove certain individuals.

[Colovion]

Don't forget Arafat being poisoned - or at least rumours that he was poisoned.

It seems that even the most primitive forms of murder are still used today.

[IrishMike]

The most primative ways to kill, are often the easiest, simplest, and most effencient ways. Posioning is usually quite effective.

[nokhor]

Shadow,
there are several advantages of poison over other forms of assassination. unlike daggers and guns, where you know the victim was murdered, the death of a poisoned person could be attributed to choking, disease, food poisoning. it also can allow the assasing greater time to slip away, unlike a murder by more violent means, where the asassins might have only seconds or minutes to try to get away from the bodyguards.

[Shadow]

Thanks for the information guys by the way is there really person called a master poisoner ?

[Sjakihata]

probably more of a profession, although I havent heard about it