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| Russia 'must give answers' after watchdog confirms spy and daughter poisoned with 'high purity' Novichok |
| 2018-04-12 |
| [Telegraph] Boris Johnson has said the the Kremlin "must give answers" after an international watchdog confirmed that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a "high purity" strain of Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said that it had been able to "confirm" the findings of British scientists about the nerve agent. It represents a significant boost to Theresa May, who has said that Russia was directly responsible for the attack. Mr Johnson said that only Russia has the "means, motive and record" to have carried out the attack. He said: "We will now work tirelessly with our partners to help stamp out the grotesque use of weapons is this kind. The Kremlin must give answers. We must, as a world community, stand up for the rules based order which keeps us all safe. The use of weapons of this kind can never be justified, and must be ended." The OPCW conducted tests on blood samples from the Skripals and also an analysis on samples of the agent found in Salisbury. The team also took samples from Detective Sergeant Nicholas Bailey, who was poisoned after coming into contact with the agent while assisting the Skripals. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 ^ That is why I avoid Kale |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-04-12 22:08 |
| #6 They are alive because they got to a hospital that could put them in a machine that would do their breathing for them...for the few weeks it takes to clear this stuff out of nerve synapses. I am not familiar with this agent, but my understanding from reading interviews with people who are is that unlike sarin and VX that are easily absorbed and quickly build up a high-enough concentration, this stuff is a solid that is more slowly absorbed but also hard to excrete; so it also eventually gets to a high-enough concentration to stop up the works. That is why it has little military utility and most people have never heard of it. That difference in the timeline of symptoms gave Skripals the chance to get to a hospital and survive, whereas the Nork's brother hit with VX did not have enough time, so he died. The fact that this was "high-purity" shows that it was produced by a sophisticated agency. The fact that they are not dead is because that sophisticated agency did not really intend to kill them. There are hundreds of better ways to really get people dead if that was what they wanted to accomplish. |
| Posted by: rammer 2018-04-12 21:24 |
| #5 "It was the good stuff" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-04-12 17:21 |
| #4 It was administered by the Wagner Group? |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-04-12 13:50 |
| #3 Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a "high purity" strain of Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury. How come they're alive then? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-04-12 12:01 |
| #2 "must give answers", huh? When Boris Johnson compared the Soccer/Football World Cup in Russia to Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics (where some UK athletes gave the famous salute, if I recall correctly), that cemented the fact that he is a clown and a puke that needs to go away from the [international] stage. And that Theresa May....Geeeeesh. |
| Posted by: Clem 2018-04-12 11:54 |
| #1 Only Russia had the means? BS! |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-04-12 11:49 |