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 ?