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Re:Snowden appeals to 15 countries for political asylum by jlgreco on Monday July 01, 2013 @02:19PM (#5972568)
He could probably get away with poisoning a journalist, but probably not in such a... dramatic and obvious... way. That polonium poisoning was astounding, it just screams "So fucking what."
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Re:Snowden appeals to 15 countries for political asylum by VladRussian2 on Monday July 01, 2013 @02:48PM (#5972747)
>it just screams "So fucking what."

In my reading it wasn't the main motif, it was a way to kill in the way that nobody would even question who did it, while not having to publicly claim responsibility.

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Re:Snowden appeals to 15 countries for political asylum by coldtea on Monday July 01, 2013 @06:25PM (#5974008)
Or it screams: "I'm sending a message now to anybody else doing the same thing".
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