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2018-11-24 Britain

UK Releases New Clips of Russian Nerve Agent Attack Suspects

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Posted by Fred 2018-11-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 a Soviet-era nerve agent called Novichok designed by Moscow specifically to conduct assassinations abroad.

Really? That's the story we're shopping now?
According to the often entertaining and sometimes reliable Wikipedia article on Novichok:
These agents were designed to achieve four objectives:
* to be undetectable using standard 1970s and 1980s NATO chemical detection equipment;
* to defeat NATO chemical protective gear;
* to be safer to handle;
* to circumvent the Chemical Weapons Convention list of controlled precursors, classes of chemical and physical form

Likely the last item was of great importance. If you are trying to do something illegal, it helps if no one realizes you are doing it. Ordering industrial quantities of embargoed chemicals is a big giveaway.

(afflicted cop) said the substance could have killed "thousands" of people.
Yep, that is definitely one of my requirements for a covert assassination tool. Poking a person with a poisoned umbrella is simply passé.

This story has been hinky from the beginning and the 'facts' that get released only make my spider sense ever more tingly. Maybe I should rub some atropine on it.

/disclaimer: never actually done any covert assassination
(btw, what's the statute of limitations on that? asking for a friend)

Posted by SteveS 2018-11-24 13:37|| 2018-11-24 13:37|| Front Page Top

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