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UK police hunt object that poisoned couple with nerve agent
AFP ^ | July 6, 2018 | Antoine PollezJul

Posted on 07/08/2018 3:24:57 AM PDT by cba123

Police on Friday raced to find the object that contaminated a British couple with the Soviet-made Novichok nerve agent in southwestern England where a former Russian spy was poisoned with the same toxin four months ago.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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Actually I am posting this, to highlight a rather good comment at the article. With apologies I could not actually copy/paste at this website, so this is typed by hand just in case there are any typos.

From someone posting as Winter Guy:

"Between the lines it sounds like there were two attempts to kill the former Russian spy, and the first bait were not taken by him, and the other early victim. The second attempt at poisoning them succeeded, and then the second people later came into contact with the poison from the first attempt. It fits because they were both in the same area."

1 posted on 07/08/2018 3:24:57 AM PDT by cba123
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To: cba123

https://www.yahoo.com/news/uk-police-hunt-object-poisoned-couple-nerve-agent-102754382.html


2 posted on 07/08/2018 3:25:22 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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What is curious about this is that a hundred days have passed, and wherever the ‘agent’ dropped the stuff....today, it’s still active.


3 posted on 07/08/2018 3:41:11 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: cba123

Or maybe Russia had nothing to do with it.


4 posted on 07/08/2018 3:42:20 AM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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To: cba123

There has been no evidence provided that the toxin was “Soviet-made” or had Russian origins.


5 posted on 07/08/2018 4:20:58 AM PDT by oblomov
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To: cba123

Britain has the problem with Russia, not the USA. If this keeps up, May is going to end up glowing in the dark!


6 posted on 07/08/2018 4:31:52 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: cba123

Novichok is reported to be the deadliest nerve agent in the world - ten times deadlier than VX (the nerve agent used by North Korea to poison Kim’s step-brother, who died almost immediately).

So how come the victims are all alive (and the Skripols and the PD who found them are recovered)? Strange.


7 posted on 07/08/2018 4:57:00 AM PDT by Hartmann
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To: miss marmelstein

Britain has a bigger problem with us being friendly with Russia, too bad. I don’t overly trust the Russians but I trust them more than I do the British.


8 posted on 07/08/2018 4:58:24 AM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: grania

Russia was the only group with motive


9 posted on 07/08/2018 4:58:32 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: cba123

Maybe this couple were actually targeted because they too might be spies.......


10 posted on 07/08/2018 5:05:13 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Mother nature is a serial killer......)
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To: pepsionice
What is curious about this is that a hundred days have passed, and wherever the ‘agent’ dropped the stuff....today, it’s still active.

There was an article the other day, I think in the Telegraph, that the agent used has a long shelf life and when deployed, takes a long, long, lonnnnnng, time to "evaporate", which was the word the chem weapon expert used that they cited.

Nasty stuff.

11 posted on 07/08/2018 5:16:06 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: AppyPappy

We dont know that
Skripal was still dabbling in spycraft
He could have been double crossing anyone including or esp MI6

He supposedly wrote a letter wanting to return to Russia where his daughter ( last surviving family) chose to live
Maybe letting a double agent go home was inconvenient to Britain given what he had learned about MI6

He made enemies of the Russians he betrayed
The only time novichok was known used to kill, it was a mafia ( Latvian) contract hit


12 posted on 07/08/2018 5:29:46 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: silverleaf

His daughter supposedly wrote that she still,hopes to return to Russia
I doubt that MI6 will ever let either of them go


13 posted on 07/08/2018 5:31:44 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: The Deplorable Miss Lemon

Well, at least they don’t pretend to be friends, do they?


14 posted on 07/08/2018 5:39:09 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

No they don’t and that alone makes them superior to the British who smile as they turn the knife.


15 posted on 07/08/2018 5:50:39 AM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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But...but..but the other day they had a presser where the nearby residents were ASSURED that they were safe! The didn't need to worry about getting poisoned, the poisonous object had been found an neutralized.

oddly enough, as I was watching the news conference, I remember thinking “And this is what it looks like when we the people are being massively lied to. It almost feels like post 9-11, when we were urged to shop in defiance of the bombers.”

16 posted on 07/08/2018 5:53:20 AM PDT by blu (WWG1WGA)
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Who knows; perhaps these two were recruited to carry out the original assault on the Skripals, and got careless disposing of the poison. They seem the sort who could be gotten to do anything for money or drugs.


17 posted on 07/08/2018 6:12:55 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: AppyPappy
And what was Russia's motive to take out a couple of heroin addicts who lived just down the road from Britain's chemical weapons facility?

And what was Russia's motive to kill an ex-spy that apparently wanted to return home to Russia?

Russia was the only group with motive

18 posted on 07/08/2018 6:16:58 AM PDT by PAR35
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was this object shaped like GCHQ, perhaps?


19 posted on 07/08/2018 6:56:55 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: grania

Or maybe Russia had nothing to do with it.
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Sadly, that’s possibly true. Hoaxes and false flag actions have become items in Leftists’ and Leftist Governments’ “tool belts” in recent years.


20 posted on 07/08/2018 7:24:42 AM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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