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Visual guide: how the novichok suspects made their way to Salisbury
The Guardian ^ | 09/05/18 | Cath Levett

Posted on 09/05/2018 9:36:17 AM PDT by Natufian

Police have named and charged in absentia two Russian suspects in the novichok attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury.

Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov flew into Gatwick on an Aeroflot flight on 2 March, two days before the Skripals were poisoned with the nerve agent.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: russia; skripal; uk

1 posted on 09/05/2018 9:36:17 AM PDT by Natufian
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To: Natufian

What a crock of sh*t. I’d sooner believe that old queen Liz did this herself than believe the Russians were behind it.


2 posted on 09/05/2018 9:43:43 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
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To: Natufian

It was Brit Intel and Brennan CIA.


3 posted on 09/05/2018 9:54:03 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

Of course it was.


4 posted on 09/05/2018 9:58:05 AM PDT by Natufian (t)
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To: pgkdan

Brilliant use of facts to knock down the evidence presented. /s


5 posted on 09/05/2018 9:59:11 AM PDT by Natufian (t)
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To: Natufian

The target was Col. Skripal who has been hunted by the Russians since his 2010 spy swap release.

He had moved several times in the London area to various safe houses. His daughter Yulia had not visited him since he had moved last. Neither she not the Russians knew where Col. Skripal lived.

Petrov and Boshirov knew of Yulia’s proposed trip and flew in the day before to follow Yulia to Col. Skripal’s location, which they did, and then did site surveillance.

Petrov and Boshirov were likely just the drop team. That is, they delivered the poison to a known location and then left the country.

A separate hit team, a man and a woman, are being sought for the direct attack. The hit team then disposed of the poison in a used clothing charity drop box in a nearby “needle park”.

Rowley, was “dumpster diving” and found the poison-filled perfume bottle and gave it to his girlfriend Sturgess as a gift. She applied it to her wrists and died. Contrary to news reports, the agent was not sprayed like perfume.

The Novichok agent has been changed since its first formula, by adding carbon and nitrogen to make it gel and not degrade. This weapons grade refining required many years and a very sophisticated laboratory and testing facility.

This attack was definitely state-sponsored.


6 posted on 09/05/2018 10:22:42 AM PDT by gandalftb
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To: DesertRhino

Bingo!


7 posted on 09/05/2018 10:28:53 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
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To: gandalftb

“A separate hit team, a man and a woman, are being sought for the direct attack. The hit team then disposed of the poison in a used clothing charity drop box in a nearby “needle park”.

Rowley, was “dumpster diving” and found the poison-filled perfume bottle and gave it to his girlfriend Sturgess as a gift. She applied it to her wrists and died. “

If this is correct (and I assume it is more likely than not) it implies that the attackers disposed of the poison in a way that they knew would harm other people.

And also, they had to assume that the bottle etc would be recovered, analyzed and connected to the Skripal poisoning.

So they actually wanted Russia to be identified as the attacker, as, I guess, a deliberate public provocation. ?

If all that is true, Putin is testing the West.


8 posted on 09/05/2018 11:24:39 AM PDT by Reverend Wright (I am a Putin bot. And I approve this message.)
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To: Natufian

Says UKistan.

The same hostile nation that gave us the Steele report.
Know your enemies. Especially the ones who are grifters.


9 posted on 09/05/2018 11:34:19 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (The 2016 foreign meddling came from UKistan, and is a weasel borne plague.)
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To: Psalm 144

Whereas putin’s a stand up guy.


10 posted on 09/05/2018 11:46:35 AM PDT by Natufian (t)
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To: Natufian

Whereas putin’s a stand up guy.

###########

In comparison to Beltway weasels, State Dept fags, neoconartists and their UKistan minions, Putin is certainly more candid and does us no harm. Even warned about communism under the days of the degenerate and warmongering Obama. Putin even saved some Christians from McCain’s pet murder monkeys in Syria.

That UKistan election meddling is still in full swing. Not that their subjects have any hand or even say in it. They would end up in like Tommy Robinson.

Dirty, dirty perfidious Albion. Two wars we have had to fight with Crown Pukes. We should not have rescued their feeble nation in 1917.


11 posted on 09/05/2018 11:59:59 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (The 2016 foreign meddling came from UKistan, and is a weasel borne plague.)
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To: Reverend Wright

The hit team knew they were getting away clean and didn’t want that agent around any longer than they had to.

I assume it’s the Russians, although the messages back, confirming the hit were radio bounced through the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea and then on to? Likely to avoid a digital trail.

The attackers understood that blood tests of the targets would reveal the agent. They didn’t care, the GRU knew that it would all be denied politically.

Col. Skripal was a double agent that cooperated after his arrest to avoid execution and then became trade bait.

Skripal stayed in the game and was helping the Estonian spy program. That’s likely when the Russians ordered the hit.

The Russians don’ t care about exposure, they are that arrogant.


12 posted on 09/05/2018 10:01:57 PM PDT by gandalftb
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