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Former Russian Spy Exposed to "Unknown Substance" in Salisbury, England

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday March 06 2018, @11:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the did-he-expose-himself? dept.

takyon writes:

A retired Russian military intelligence officer has fallen ill in England after exposure to an unknown substance. Does that sound familiar?

A man identified by local news reports as a retired Russian military intelligence officer who once spied for Britain is critically ill at a British hospital, and the authorities were investigating his "exposure to an unknown substance."

According to several reports, the man, found unconscious on a bench in the city of Salisbury, is Sergei V. Skripal, 66. He was once jailed by Moscow, then settled in Britain after an exchange of spies between the United States and Russia in 2010.

The British police have not publicly identified the man in the hospital or a 33-year-old woman who fell sick with him at a shopping mall called the Maltings.

The authorities have, however, released enough detail about what they called a "major incident" to draw some comparisons, however premature, to the case of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who was poisoned in London in 2006.

Also at BBC and Reuters.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by VLM on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:01PM (4 children)

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:01PM (#648493)

    Likely something like Antifa-UK doesn't think retired Russian spies are left wing enough. A commie in the 70s is a fascist today, and all that.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Revek on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:35PM (3 children)

    by Revek (5022) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:35PM (#648506)

    Its funny how much power you attribute to the anti fa movement. I see them much as I see trumps chumps. Largely under educated and completely impotent.

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    • (Score: 2, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday March 06 2018, @07:01PM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @07:01PM (#648613) Homepage Journal

      We're having so many problems with our Alt-left and with Black Identity Extremists, the BIE. Look at what they did at my inauguration. Look at what they did in Charlottesville. And it's very easy to get Viagra these days. Very easy. You know about Viagra, right?

    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:43PM (1 child)

      by VLM (445) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:43PM (#648671)

      The only modifier I didn't get was funny, which was what I was aiming for, oh well. Modern leftists have no sense of humor. No, I don't seriously think UK-antifa is assassinating retired USSR spies for not being far enough left, but it sounded funny to me at a moment of low caffeine intake.

      • (Score: 2) by number6x on Tuesday March 06 2018, @09:03PM

        by number6x (903) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @09:03PM (#648691)

        It was funny, but in a dry, British-humour kind of way.

        Too subtle for the people with mod points