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Police Say Nerve Agent Was Used in Attempt to Kill Sergei Skripal
Police say that they have identified a specific nerve agent as being used in an attempt to kill a Russian who once spied for the UK. They have not named the nerve agent that was used. Officers who responded to the scene have also been hospitalized:
A nerve agent was used to try to murder a former Russian spy and his daughter, police have said. Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found unconscious in Salisbury on Sunday afternoon and remain critically ill. A police officer who was the first to attend the scene is now in a serious condition in hospital, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said.
[...] Mr Rowley, head of Counter Terrorism Policing, said government scientists had identified the agent used, but would not make that information public at this stage. "This is being treated as a major incident involving attempted murder, by administration of a nerve agent," he said. "Having established that a nerve agent is the cause of the symptoms... I can also confirm that we believe that the two people who became unwell were targeted specifically."
[...] Two other police officers who attended the scene were treated in hospital for minor symptoms, before they were given the all clear. It is understood their symptoms included itchy eyes and wheezing.
After 15th Alleged Russian Hit in the UK, Counter Terrorism Command takes over Investigation
Mr Skripal, 66, who was imprisoned in Russia for working for British intelligence and later came to the UK as part of a spy swap, is currently in critical condition, along with his 33-year-old daughter who was also taken ill. Authorities say they are trying to determine if he was poisoned.
Russia has denied any involvement, but the case has put renewed scrutiny on a string of deaths in the UK in the past two decades. The chair of the home affairs select committee, Yvette Cooper MP, wrote to Home Secretary Amber Rudd on Tuesday calling for a review of 14 other cases.
... British police say they have found no evidence of Russian involvement in any of the cases barring Litvinenko's.
"British police are under no sort of political pressure whatsoever," Tony Brenton, the British ambassador to Moscow at the time of Litvinenko's death, told the BBC. "If they had found evidence of Russian involvement in those cases, we would have followed it up."
But the UK government has faced criticism over a perceived lack of action. In the wake of Litvinenko's death, the UK tried and failed to extradite two Russian agents alleged to have carried out the hit. Instead, several Russian diplomats were expelled, provoking a tit for tat response from Russia.
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In Salisbury, counter-terror police have taken over the investigation. The park bench where Mr Skripal collapsed has been cordoned off and a restaurant where he ate lunch has been temporarily closed.
At BBC World.
Previously: Former Russian Spy Exposed to "Unknown Substance" in Salisbury, England
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 09 2018, @03:39AM (13 children)
That is true, Litvinenko was murdered through radioactive isotopes.
The signature of using nerve agents invokes North Korea but the murder of foreign spies with respect to Russia was taking advantage of all this. Now, if you compare these British murders with any taking place in North America, we have a lot of unanswered questions with the FBI and their fall-guy regarding Anthrax during the original 9/11.
The deep state are stepping up their game. From Anthrax, to Fentanyl, to mysterious disappearances of CDC personnel. Those who fight against libertarians are out to kill them and bury the truth. Whether or not it's you in Oregon who knows the whole truth, or you in Toledo who stumbled upon it accidentally. The deep state are out to kill. Will you survive?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @04:01AM (6 children)
You are one paranoid son of a bitch.
Get some help.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 09 2018, @04:05AM (5 children)
Suck me off, bitch. The United States of America will never fall!
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @04:37AM (4 children)
The sanctity of the US was never under discussion.
You're obviously seriously mentally disturbed.
I intend to refer your comments to the US authorities, who may find your behavior interesting enough to warrant further investigation.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 09 2018, @05:08AM
Tell them to suck me off.
The United States of America will never falll!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 10 2018, @02:46AM (2 children)
You're a special kind of stupid, aren't you? EF's comments are right here, on Soylent, in a nice digital format, which is easy to store, easy to transport, and easy to intercept. The NSA already has all of our comments. EF's comments have probably triggered some filter or another many times. For you to "refer" his comments to the authorities amounts to nothing more than a waste of time. The authorities already know all about each and every one of us. Including all of you AC's.
What - you're still so gullible as to believe that the NSA doesn't know which AC is which?
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 10 2018, @05:05AM (1 child)
You should be more careful who you insult.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 10 2018, @02:54PM
You're right. I should only insult people who are man (or woman) enough to do something about an insult. The random anonymous pussy on the interwebs isn't worthy of a good insult. Thanks for the reminder, and have a shitty day now.
I'm going to buy my defensive radar from Temu, just like Venezuela!
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Friday March 09 2018, @06:19AM (5 children)
You think that Libertarians work at the CDC? Surely the CDC is the opposite of what Libertarians stand for.
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Friday March 09 2018, @05:22PM (4 children)
Studying, treating, and helping prevent the spread of diseases is against liberty? If you think the only or even primary thing the CDC does is manage quarantines you are quite mistaken. Even in that case a proper quarantine is a canonical example of a just restriction of individual liberties, I would hope people who respect liberties are exactly who is managing it.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Friday March 09 2018, @08:20PM (1 child)
You misunderstand. Probably deliberately.
It's not the action that is anti-Libertarian: it's who pays for it. Government paying for the study and treatment of disease is not part of Libertarian ethos.
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Friday March 09 2018, @09:14PM
You are suggesting that no libertarian would accept a government job, really?
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday March 10 2018, @01:59AM (1 child)
A true Libertarian would be in favour of diseases having the liberty to spread.
Better add something to avoid Poe's law like /s
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Monday March 12 2018, @03:39PM
Don't worry, Poe's law can't be avoided, steer into that skid.