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Salisbury poisoning: UK experts cannot prove novichok nerve agent used on Skripals came from Russia
Independent / Yahoo ^ | April 4, 2018 | Kim Sengupta

Posted on 04/03/2018 8:23:49 PM PDT by NorseViking

Accusations and recriminations between Britain and Russia are set to escalate with the news that scientists at the Porton Down military research facility have been unable to establish exactly where the novichok nerve agent used to carry out the Skripal attack was manufactured.

The admission comes the day before Moscow convenes an emergency meeting of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague in which it is expected to demand access to samples from the Salisbury poisoning for analysis by Russian scientists.

Russia’s embassy in London responded that Porton Down’s assessment “proves that all political declarations on the Russian origin of the crime are nothing but assumptions not stemming from objective facts or the course of the investigation”.

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TOPICS: Anthrax Scare; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chickenhawks; euroweenies; limeyliesmatter; nerveagent; norsetroll; novichok; putinloversonfr; russia; russianpropagandists; russianpuppets; russianstooges; russiasucks; salisburypoisoning
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1 posted on 04/03/2018 8:23:49 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

Gee. I can’t imagine what/who would do such a thing to stir up the emotions against Russia! Why it COULDN’T be the same crowd that developed the dossier? That had a drink with somebody in London? That sold uranium to Russia? That has a world-wide foundation?


2 posted on 04/03/2018 8:27:26 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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To: Dogbert41

Interesting.


3 posted on 04/03/2018 8:28:33 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: NorseViking

Maybe the Brits could hire Crowdstrike to see if it’s Russian.


4 posted on 04/03/2018 8:29:04 PM PDT by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: NorseViking


5 posted on 04/03/2018 8:29:40 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: NorseViking
Gosh, maybe it was Luxembourg. Yeah, that's the ticket …


6 posted on 04/03/2018 8:31:15 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: apocalypto

First it is the Democrats in the US with Russia Russia Russia and then the Brits - and US kicking out diplomats over this - I wonder if that bear that those folks are poking may get grumpy.


7 posted on 04/03/2018 8:33:47 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: Dogbert41

One thing these reports are missing is a Kivelidi case. In 1995 the same agent was used by Georgian mafia to murder a Georgian businessman in Moscow. His office manager and coroner examining the bodies also died. Moscow police found the laboratory behind the agent was neglected by the military after Soviet collapse and at least two employees stolen the agent and sold it to numerous known criminal figures in between 1992 and 1995. It could easily end up at Porton Down.


8 posted on 04/03/2018 8:42:55 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Dogbert41

and was gun running and killed Stevens to cover up


9 posted on 04/03/2018 8:44:26 PM PDT by aces
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To: NorseViking

I wonder if this was done by the “deep state” or representatives of “The new world order” for the purpose of “setting up” Putin to take the fall. I’m thinking that if Putin would have done something like this, he would not have used a method that would point almost uniquely back at him.


10 posted on 04/03/2018 8:46:13 PM PDT by Real Cynic No More
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The Russians can determine where it came from. They kept meticulous records on every batch they made, and where it was stored. Many batches were stored in old Soviet Bloc countries.

Each batch differs slightly, and has a different signature.

This is all open source info on the web...

Did Britain provide Russia a sample, as requested? And, as dictated by the Chemical Weapons Treaty?


11 posted on 04/03/2018 8:49:37 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Not that easily.

https://www.google.ru/amp/s/zona.media/news/2018/03/30/reprink/amp/
You can read this article in Russian using Google translator.

It explains agent proliferation.
Many entities could do it.


12 posted on 04/03/2018 8:53:39 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

Nerve agent?


13 posted on 04/03/2018 8:56:20 PM PDT by granada
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To: granada

so can all the Russian diplomats return to their jobs now?


14 posted on 04/03/2018 8:58:08 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

I’d like to see UN take on this. It is a severity of charge and not solid evidence that matters in a New Brave World.


15 posted on 04/03/2018 9:13:05 PM PDT by NorseViking
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No. Uk and EU have claimed that they believe there was no other plausible explanation other than Russia.

Urkraine?


16 posted on 04/03/2018 9:22:58 PM PDT by granada
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Yep, limeys might still have a judge who ruled ‘Putin most likely ordered’ the poisoning of Litvinenko.
That’s their new judicial standard.


17 posted on 04/03/2018 9:32:40 PM PDT by NorseViking
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Nothing.

The Russians aren’t expecting a Western apology to be forthcoming if there’s no evidence they were behind the Skripal poisoning.

Russophobia is the West’s problem to deal with and the truth is the West wants to contain Russia. Crimea, Ukraine and Skripal are simply political pretexts.

Fortunately Russian society is united while the West suffers from deep divisions and Russia can and will break out from Western encirclement.


18 posted on 04/03/2018 10:01:56 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: NorseViking

Nothing.

The Russians aren’t expecting a Western apology to be forthcoming if there’s no evidence they were behind the Skripal poisoning.

Russophobia is the West’s problem to deal with and the truth is the West wants to contain Russia. Crimea, Ukraine and Skripal are simply political pretexts.

Fortunately Russian society is united while the West suffers from deep divisions and Russia can and will break out from Western encirclement.


19 posted on 04/03/2018 10:02:14 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Dogbert41

Cui bono? Maybe jihadists who don’t want the west and Russia to unite and kick their rears?


20 posted on 04/03/2018 10:11:44 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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