Poisoned Door Handle Hints at High-Level Plot to Kill Spy, U.K. Officials Say

nyt ^ | 4/1/2018 | ellen barry

[bitt]

LONDON — British officials investigating the poisoning of Sergei V. Skripal, a former Russian double agent, believe it is likely that an assassin smeared a nerve agent on the door handle at his home. This operation is seen as so risky and sensitive that it is unlikely to have been undertaken without approval from the Kremlin, according to officials who have been briefed on the early findings of the inquiry.

[bitt]

p

[silverleaf]

The Brits need to stop digging this hole they are in
The govt is increasingly being ridiculed by the public for posting one theory after another as indisputable proof that Russia did it because only Russia could and would do it

[cherry]

if the Ruskies have this technology, so does our FBI/CIA cabal...

I still wonder about Breitbart and Scalia....

[thoughtomator]

The UK has become a rogue nation ruled by a Satanic alliance of Deep Staters and Muslims.

[Be Careful]

This is the only arrow that the EU has in its quiver to try to block Brexit....it seems possible that they would consider a move against Putin to create a Wag the Dog scenario....cornered beasts are very dangerous.

[Glad2bnuts]

Why wouldn’t the Russians just have shot him if they cared? I see no motive. This is a false flag, just as the Russia Collusion, Syrian gas attacks, and Russia invading the Crimea. Obama wanted us to go to war in Syria, the same people that want this are still pulling strings.

[Alter Kaker]

As far as we know, only the Russians developed this specific nerve agent. Why use it? They obviously wanted to be caught. Why? Who knows but assume to send a message to would-be defectors that the KGB can get them anywhere.

[Alter Kaker]

I disagree. Shooting the defector would have been easier but it wouldn’t have sent the same message. The defector was a target - but the important thing is sending a message to other would-be defectors not to mess w Putin because we can find you anywhere. If he had been shot it wouldn’t have been front page news and you could rationalize it - maybe it was a robbery. As for a false flag - that makes little sense. The US already has beefs wirh Russia and the last thing May wants is another foreign policy headache.

[Alter Kaker]

The EU isn’t a military organization. The poisoning thing can’t possibly have anything to do with Brexit, precisely because the U.K. intends to remain in NATO along with most of Europe after Brexit.

[MAGAthon]

FakeNews.

[SunkenCiv]

The Three Amigos

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks bitt.

[Axenolith]

Have this technology? Its been sitting around in drums probably for decades. The real question is who would be stupid enough to authorize it. Theres a thousand other ways the guy could have been offed but they pick this? IDK what England has as a policy towards use of chemical weapons on their charges but ours technically is that we’ll nuke you!

That makes it a higher probability that if Russian, it was someone there with a grudge or scheme against someone else in Russia, or someone in the UK that wanted to tar them with it.

[Axenolith]

Every NATO major is going to have a sample of that stuff. If anything, for testing against protective barrier wear and decontamination procedures.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Seems that someone who wanted Russia and the west not to unite against them — say, ISIS — would try that.

Just shooting the man a la James Bond would have been easier.

[anton]

A la Seth Rich.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Bond the shooter, Rich the shootee

[Yaelle]

I still wonder about Breitbart and Scalia....

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I really don’t wonder.

[zeestephen]

Release ALL the evidence to the public.

I’ll read it and make up my own mind.

Until then, this sounds totally bogus to me, just like the allegations that Assad is using nerve gas in Syria.