From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/25/2005 8:26 PM
Conspiracy Theory Of The Week
Hepatitis Outbreak Linked to Drunken Brawl in Moscow Hotel Room
With no one claiming responsibility for the massive hepatitis outbreak in the Tver region and the only viable suspect-a pivo plant-shut down well before locals starting turning yellow, Russian conspiracy mongers outdid themselves last week as they linked the epidemic to a biological weapons expert killed in his Moscow hotel room with a champagne bottle.
Some 570 people are reported sick, although no one's dead yet, so it seems Russia's doing better than the U.S. anthrax epidemic in the fall of 2001. Still, investigators are not excluding the possibility that the hepatitis A outbreak was a biological attack.
Some papers, like Moskovsky Komsomolets, alleged, in so many words, that the scientist Nikolai Strachunsky, found dead last week in his hotel room with his laptop missing and a broken champagne bottle on the floor, was killed precisely because he uncovered the Tver-hep-A bioterror plan and, by gum, he was determined to stop it.
It's not like MK had any reason to believe these two events were connected. It just seemed "logical." "Did a virus of terror kill the professor?" the tabloid asked in its headline, and then admitted that the attack on Dr. Strachunsky looked more like a robbery or a drunken brawl than anything else.
"Investigators are checking out whether there is a connection between the death of the professor and the events in the Tver region," it said. Because, you know, "panic has begun in Rzhev," so logically there must be some link. Especially since Strachunsky was just headed to the United States...or back from the United States, they couldn't say which, but the point was, there was once an anthrax attack on the US, and there was panic in Rzhevsk, so therefore, Strachunsky was murdered because he knew too much.
Expect to hear all about it on your next taxi ride:
http://www.exile.ru/2005-June-17/conspiracy_theory_of_the_week.html