Posted on 04/06/2018 2:47:45 PM PDT by McGruff
One month after Sergei and Yulia Skripal collapsed on a shopping center bench, apparently poisoned, the Russian ex-spy and his daughter are showing marked signs of improvement. Hospital officials announced Friday that Sergei is "responding well to treatment, improving rapidly and is no longer in a critical condition," just one week after his daughter reached stable condition.
"As Yulia herself says, her strength is growing daily and she can look forward to the day when she is well enough to leave the hospital," Christine Blanshard, medical director at Salisbury District Hospital, said in a statement released Friday.
Their pets, however, were not so fortunate. They stayed behind in the Skripals' home, which was quickly sealed off by British authorities. Investigators later found that their front door showed the highest concentration of the nerve agent used against them.
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Is fault of moose and squirrel.
This sounds like espionage code to me.
If so, how can Britain claim they aren't making their own Novichoks?
Why were the dead animals disposed of rather than preserved as evidence?
Don’t you think someone would have smelled something after a while?
“Investigators later found that their front door showed the highest concentration of the nerve agent used against them.”
The guinea pigs were working for the CIA.
Boris Bedanov and Natasha Fatale have been at it again.
What good would an anecdote do for possible nerve gas poisoning?
We had a guinea pig-——a great little pet.
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I think US soldiers or medics, may have carried atropine on them. But I'm not certain.
Yes, the proper antidote could be a life-saver, but I still don’t see how any “anecdote” would help.
I just noticed the spelling (anecdote). Went right over my head.
The animals died as a result of police cruelty to the animals. The Russians asked basically the same question you did. The answer: “guinea pigs likely died “due to a lack of water,” while the BBC reports that the cat was put down due to extreme dehydration.” The anti-Putin deep state agents withheld basic necessities until the animals died.
Perhaps the police supervisors responsible should be locked up a few days without water until they develop a little empathy for helpless animals.
That officer is obviously immune to nerve gas!!! That’s AMAZING!!!
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Woman on the left: Shouldn't we be wearing protective clothing or something?
The Russians probably did it just like the Brits say. Nerve agent poisoning would be readily diagnosed by depressed levels of acetylcholine estersse in the victims’ blood. A number of field and laboratory tests can identify the essential chemicals in the agent, such as phosphorus and sulfur (if it’s formulation is anything like VX for example).
However, Mueller made such a dog’s breakfast out of the Amerithrax investigation, and all of the false starts regarding WMD in Iraq that I think folks are rightly skeptical of pronouncements on WMD by government. The Russians are taking advantage of that skepticism.
It was the original commenter who wrote “anecdote.” I was just tweaking him bc I was not sure if spell check did that to him or if he really thought the word is anecdote.
British officials, meanwhile, say they are “absolutely” certain that Russia — and likely even the Kremlin — lay behind the poisoning.
“They have a track record of using nerve agents, and they have a track record of state-sponsored assassinations,” Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to the U.S., told Here & Now on Friday. “Add all of that together — not just us, but in the court of international opinion, because I think 28 nations have taken action against Russia — and there’s no doubt in our mind of their culpability, no doubt.”
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Interesting reasoning. Russia did it, because 28 nations have taken action against Russia for doing it. Sort of like saying “of course he’s guilty, we put him to death”.
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