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Who Poisoned Sergei Skripal With a Nerve Gas?

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by Dee McLachlan

On Sunday, 4th of March, just after 4pm, former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, was found unconscious in Salisbury, Wiltshire, along with his daughter, 33.

They are in critical condition and it has now been discovered that a nerve gas is responsible. The police officer who first attended the scene is also seriously ill.

Of course, the mainstream media (MSM) quickly pointed to the Kremlin. This report from the NY Times (7/3/2018):

“A former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent in Britain this week, the British police said on Wednesday, heightening suspicions that the episode was an assassination attempt by a national government, amid rampant speculation that Russia was responsible.

The development forces the British government to confront the possibility that once again, an attack on British soil was carried out by the government of President Vladimir V. Putin, which Western intelligence officials say has, with alarming frequency, ordered the killing of people who have crossed it.”

“…The medical and chemical evidence and the effects on the victims point to a sophisticated nerve toxin. The best known are VX and sarin. Chemical weapons experts said it was almost impossible to make nerve agents without training and dismissed the theory that an amateur could have assembled the substance using materials obtained from the internet.” [My emphasis]

This seems to be the familiar MSM narrative. The Telegraph adds fuel to this story by writing:

“Vladimir Putin vowed to kill the Russian double agent who was poisoned on British soil and has been left fighting for his life. President Putin issued the death threat that “traitors will kick the bucket” as Colonel Sergei Skripal, who was convicted of working for MI6, was being sent to the UK in a spy exchange… the attack on Colonel Skripal on British soil was a ‘state-sponsored’ assassination attempt and perpetrated by the Russian intelligence agency, the FSB.” [My emphasis]

Well, the timing couldn’t be worse for Putin. Or rather, the timing couldn’t be more perfect to discredit Putin — especially after his recent announcements. Thus, is this a False Flag of sorts?

Skirpil, a former colonel in Russian military intelligence, was arrested in 2004 in Moscow after it was discovered that he had been working as a double agent for the British. After being convicted, he spent several years in a Russian jail — and had presumably been thoroughly debriefed. He was then sent to the UK in an exchange. If he was of great importance, or there was a danger of him disclosing too much — he surely would not have been exchanged.

So, why was he poisoned? Many in the MSM have reported that Putin is “sending a message,” and that this could be “some kind of vote-winning ploy, coming two weeks before presidential elections.” [The Guardian] And The Daily Mail even drawing a comparison to the assassination of Kim Jong-un’s half brother at Kuala Lumpur airport last year.

What is the most likely explanation?

Could Skirpil have passed his UK “Used By Date” and became expendable — assassinated to discredit Russia? If the nerve gas is a sophisticated nerve toxin, then maybe the source can be traced. What is interesting is that is has taken several days for the authorities to disclose the cause of poisoning.

Andrei Lugovoi, one of the prime suspects in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, has suggested that could be part of a British campaign to demonize Moscow.

We can only wait and see.

UPDATE 9:45pm: I received a call saying it was a botched Western Intelligence Agency job, unlike Litvinenko, which was a Russian hit.

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16 COMMENTS

  1. Skirpil being a double agent must know the dangers of being a double agent, whether for money or status, these individuals have a dubious value as to the overall good they do, or if they are pawns in a bigger game is so often unknown,do we need to have empathy for these individuals?

  2. “The medical and chemical evidence and the effects on the victims point to a sophisticated nerve toxin. The best known are VX and sarin”.

    Does that mean the exact substance can’t be traced via an autopsy ?

    “Chemical weapons experts said it was almost impossible to make nerve agents without training ”

    Well that claim doesn’t exactly line up with:

    “The production of VX is not very difficult for trained chemists with regular laboratory equipment”
    REF: http://www.dw.com/en/vx-nerve-agent-10-times-more-poisonous-than-sarin/a-37701420

    How about:
    “The effects of half-baked/ill-informed reporting point to a sophisticated obfuscation toxin”

  4. “Could Skirpil have passed his UK “Used By Date” and became expendable — assassinated to discredit Russia?”

    Gosh, gee, let me figure this out. The bloke obviously wasn’t a threat to Russia as they released him to the UK. There are plenty of other easier ways to kill someone without using something like a state made nerve agent. There was no need to kill his daughter, unless whoever did it was looking for a more newsworthy and emotive murder. Hmmm, gonna have to think about this…

  5. Pardon me if I emote. I just read this headline: “Mueller gathers evidence that 2017 meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlin”. The article then says:

    “A witness cooperating with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has told investigators the meeting in Seychelles was set up in advance so that a representative of the Trump transition team could meet with an emissary from Moscow to discuss future relations between the two countries, people familiar with the matter said.”

    So like wunderbarsville, Man, this is what we want any president to do. Please please stop with the nonsense.

  6. ABC 7.30 Report did a big section on Skripal — as expected, an anti-Russian stance. The interview with a BUZZ Feed Journo — all one dimensional propaganda.

  9. My, My, My, how short people’s memories are. This is the reason folks can be so easily manipulated.
    It would seem everyone has forgotten the good Doctor who was In Iraq investigating the W.M.D. and Gas that Saddam was supposed to have. Who was them found dead, apparently from an overdose of painkillers, which was found to be bullshit at his inquest.
    Remember that episode ??????????
    Today, many years later, the whole event is still shrouded in mystery and the perpetrators have still not been found.
    The evidence, that the British Government and MI5 have no compulsion of wasting anyone who poses a threat to their ambitions, and may I speculate, this traitor of Russia appears to be hedging his bets and put money down on both sides playing them off against each other, and the Brits found out, knocked him off, and blame Russia for it, again without the slightest shred of evidence to back up their claims. Yet the World M.S.M. simply accepts any such claim.
    When will folks ask the simple question that needs to be asked whenever a crime occurs;
    WHO STANDS TO GAIN FROM THIS EVENT ?????????
    Therein lies the answer to his murder. Hint, it most defintely was not the Russians.

  10. “That consultant—Christopher Steele to gather information—was reportedly in repeated contact with an exiled former Russian intelligence officer, Sergei Skripal, who was poisoned along with his daughter in a brazen public murder attempt on March 4.

    “Steele, of course, is the author of the famous dossier on Donald Trump’s connections to Russia. It could all be a coincidence, but the Telegraph’s report implies that Skripal, still deeply tied to Russian intelligence, could be a source of some of the claims in that dossier, and was targeted for death because of it.”

    Now maybe he was off’d by someone in the west that did not want it coming out that Skripil made stuff up to feed Steele?

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