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Police arrest man, 64, over 'hoax novichok bottles' that were left inside Pembroke Castle in Wales | Daily Mail Online
"A suspected 'novichok' hoaxer has been arrested after bottles with an unknown substance were found at a Welsh Castle.
A 64-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being a public nuisance.
The substance was found five times at Pembroke Castle over a period of three weeks."
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A suspected 'novichok' hoaxer has been arrested in Wales following a string of attacks (Pictured: Pembroke Castle after a suspected novichok hoaxer)
What a dick. Similar to those idiots who joke to airline staff they have a bomb in their luggage.
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Well Christmas is coming.
boy are you organized -- reminder the holidays are in Dec !!
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How ever do you think of such deviousness?
I am a very return oriented shopper if i don't like it i am returning it why not make it as smooth as possible!!
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How ever do you think of such deviousness?
ha it just occurred to me are you british?
How ever do you think of such deviousness?
It hit me as a british way to phrase it !!
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Of course I am . Shires is my name and where I'm from.
Oh and Pembrokeshire where the authorities had to waste their time on that joker is not to far away from me.
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The rise of biological and chemical weapons: how ready is the UK?
"The small town of Melksham, in rural Wiltshire, is an unlikely location for one of the world’s largest producers of gas masks. Yet there, next to Farmers’ Roundabout, is a warehouse containing a production line that can turn out a quarter of a million masks a year."
"Today, business is booming. Orders are flooding in from the US military and the MoD. A contract is up for grabs from Canada’s army. India is keen. ‘All this CW has been good for us,’ says an executive. By CW he means chemical warfare"
"The new age of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has been decades in the making. As Aimen Dean, MI6’s mole in al-Qaeda, recounts in his new book Nine Lives, Osama bin Laden’s terror group plotted to smear deadly chemicals on the door handles of luxury cars in Britain in the late 1990s. After 9/11, Dean delivered intelligence that Abu Khabab, an al-Qaeda weapons engineer, had managed to develop a viable poison-gas device destined for New York’s subway system. The plot never came to fruition."
The rise of biological and chemical weapons: how ready is the UK?
"The small town of Melksham, in rural Wiltshire, is an unlikely location for one of the world’s largest producers of gas masks. Yet there, next to Farmers’ Roundabout, is a warehouse containing a production line that can turn out a quarter of a million masks a year."
"Today, business is booming. Orders are flooding in from the US military and the MoD. A contract is up for grabs from Canada’s army. India is keen. ‘All this CW has been good for us,’ says an executive. By CW he means chemical warfare"
"The new age of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has been decades in the making. As Aimen Dean, MI6’s mole in al-Qaeda, recounts in his new book Nine Lives, Osama bin Laden’s terror group plotted to smear deadly chemicals on the door handles of luxury cars in Britain in the late 1990s. After 9/11, Dean delivered intelligence that Abu Khabab, an al-Qaeda weapons engineer, had managed to develop a viable poison-gas device destined for New York’s subway system. The plot never came to fruition."
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Interesting, well-written and lengthy article.
Inside the Poisoning of a Russian Double Agent
Inside the Poisoning of a Russian Double Agent
By
Tom Lamont
3 days ago
"This was March 4, 2018, a Sunday of sun-backed clouds, the air crisp and glad the way it gets in southwest England after the lifting of snow. A day earlier Yulia Skripal, Sergei's 33-year-old daughter, who visited Salisbury regularly, had flown in from Moscow. The poison had gotten into Yulia that morning, too, but father and daughter were still unwitting and felt well enough early on Sunday afternoon to plan an outing. Sergei owned a cherry red BMW and they drove into town for a drink in a riverside pub. Maybe they would have a meal together. An ancient cathedral, south of the city center, chimed the half hour: 1:30 P.M. This poison wanted two hours more.
Salisbury is a city of spires and rusted weather vanes, a place that is particular about time, the dates of things stamped on buildings and everywhere clocks, clocks, on belfries and over bookshops. Across the water from where the Skripals parked their car, a sundial had been engraved with the adage: Time speeds up until it is nothing, therefore use it before it is gone. At the pub, Sergei and Yulia had a quick drink. When father and daughter were together, they sometimes posed for pictures, raising toasts. The pub was a converted mill that had a display of photographs on the wall, one of these a close-up of a pocket watch, its crystal broken, hands frozen at what appeared to be 1:35 P.M.
Next they went to an Italian restaurant to eat. An hour passed. Finally, walking back to their car at around 3:30 P.M., the Skripals began to feel truly unwell and had to put themselves down on a bench, where they drifted in and out of consciousness, slumped over and gesturing strangely. Passersby assumed they were high. At a quarter to four, the cathedral clock sounded again. The Skripals' pupils had shrunk, and they were sweating. They were foaming at the mouth. An off-duty nurse was the first to attend them, and a small crowd gathered. At 4:15 P.M., an ambulance was called, come quickly, forthwith."
"On March 14, the U.N. Security Council held a special meeting to discuss the attack, and it was there that the Russian ambassador asked the lingering question: But why? What motive should the Russian state have to eliminate a retired, redundant spy, “who after his prosecution, sentencing, prison term, pardon, and handover to the British authorities no longer posed any kind of threat to my country?” Everybody in the West seemed to have a theory. That the Skripal hit was meant to sow confusion and panic abroad or, no, at home in Russia. That this was really about geopolitics, some sort of coded message about the use of chemical weapons in Syria. That it was about domestic politics, closely timed and meant to rouse support for the incumbent regime ahead of Russia's elections that month.
Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Russia, told me that “guessing, I would say they would have expected this to be a relatively swift assassination, quickly forgotten, but that the method used would stick in the mind of people back home.... Persuading other Russians, in other systems, to be careful? That's a valuable aim.” A well-informed source affiliated with the OPCW, not British or Russian, told me they felt the incident must be about the novichok itself—a lid-lifting on this still mysterious weapon, something like a product unveiling after its 30-some years in development.
What connected these theories was the idea that Sergei Skripal was secondary—collateral damage in his own attempted murder. After all, the reasoning went, he was a spy out to pasture, living obscurely in old England. What could he have done to bring assassins to Salisbury?"
Inside the Poisoning of a Russian Double Agent
Inside the Poisoning of a Russian Double Agent
By
Tom Lamont
3 days ago
"This was March 4, 2018, a Sunday of sun-backed clouds, the air crisp and glad the way it gets in southwest England after the lifting of snow. A day earlier Yulia Skripal, Sergei's 33-year-old daughter, who visited Salisbury regularly, had flown in from Moscow. The poison had gotten into Yulia that morning, too, but father and daughter were still unwitting and felt well enough early on Sunday afternoon to plan an outing. Sergei owned a cherry red BMW and they drove into town for a drink in a riverside pub. Maybe they would have a meal together. An ancient cathedral, south of the city center, chimed the half hour: 1:30 P.M. This poison wanted two hours more.
Salisbury is a city of spires and rusted weather vanes, a place that is particular about time, the dates of things stamped on buildings and everywhere clocks, clocks, on belfries and over bookshops. Across the water from where the Skripals parked their car, a sundial had been engraved with the adage: Time speeds up until it is nothing, therefore use it before it is gone. At the pub, Sergei and Yulia had a quick drink. When father and daughter were together, they sometimes posed for pictures, raising toasts. The pub was a converted mill that had a display of photographs on the wall, one of these a close-up of a pocket watch, its crystal broken, hands frozen at what appeared to be 1:35 P.M.
Next they went to an Italian restaurant to eat. An hour passed. Finally, walking back to their car at around 3:30 P.M., the Skripals began to feel truly unwell and had to put themselves down on a bench, where they drifted in and out of consciousness, slumped over and gesturing strangely. Passersby assumed they were high. At a quarter to four, the cathedral clock sounded again. The Skripals' pupils had shrunk, and they were sweating. They were foaming at the mouth. An off-duty nurse was the first to attend them, and a small crowd gathered. At 4:15 P.M., an ambulance was called, come quickly, forthwith."
"On March 14, the U.N. Security Council held a special meeting to discuss the attack, and it was there that the Russian ambassador asked the lingering question: But why? What motive should the Russian state have to eliminate a retired, redundant spy, “who after his prosecution, sentencing, prison term, pardon, and handover to the British authorities no longer posed any kind of threat to my country?” Everybody in the West seemed to have a theory. That the Skripal hit was meant to sow confusion and panic abroad or, no, at home in Russia. That this was really about geopolitics, some sort of coded message about the use of chemical weapons in Syria. That it was about domestic politics, closely timed and meant to rouse support for the incumbent regime ahead of Russia's elections that month.
Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Russia, told me that “guessing, I would say they would have expected this to be a relatively swift assassination, quickly forgotten, but that the method used would stick in the mind of people back home.... Persuading other Russians, in other systems, to be careful? That's a valuable aim.” A well-informed source affiliated with the OPCW, not British or Russian, told me they felt the incident must be about the novichok itself—a lid-lifting on this still mysterious weapon, something like a product unveiling after its 30-some years in development.
What connected these theories was the idea that Sergei Skripal was secondary—collateral damage in his own attempted murder. After all, the reasoning went, he was a spy out to pasture, living obscurely in old England. What could he have done to bring assassins to Salisbury?"
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There aren't any charges relating to Dawn and Charlie, but police have released images of the suspects:
Counter-terrorism police release images of two suspects in connection with Salisbury attack
Counter-terrorism police release images of two suspects in connection with Salisbury attack
News • Sep 05, 2018 11:15 BST
Image: Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov
Statement by Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, National Lead for Counter Terrorism Policing, in relation to the Salisbury and Amesbury Investigation:
Today marks the most significant moment so far in what has been one of the most complex and intensive investigations we have undertaken in Counter Terrorism policing; the charging of two suspects – both Russian nationals - in relation to the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal. I would like to thank the Crown Prosecution Service for their independent assessment of the evidence in this case.
This has been a highly complex investigation for UK policing, which would have been impossible without the great staff and abilities of the UK Intelligence Community and the support of the Government.
My thoughts remain with Dawn Sturgess’s family as they come to terms with their loss, the other victims who fell seriously ill after being exposed to a Novichok nerve agent and the people of Salisbury who have shown tremendous resilience throughout.
We said from the start that this investigation would take time as we gathered and assessed all the evidence available to us. Around 250 detectives from across the Counter Terrorism Policing Network have worked on the investigation, brilliantly led by Counter Terrorism Policing South East, and supported by officers from Wiltshire, numerous forces on mutual aid, as well as partners and agencies, ranging from Public Health England to the Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory in Porton Down.
Over the last six months we have meticulously followed the evidence, working closely with specialist forensic teams and scientists, as we have investigated both the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, and the poisoning of Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley. Let me be clear, we have no doubt these two incidents are connected and now form one investigation.
Today’s announcement by the CPS marks the most significant development in this investigation. We now have sufficient evidence to bring charges in relation to the attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury and domestic and European arrest warrants have been issued for the two suspects. We are also seeking to circulate Interpol Red Notices.
However, our enquiries do not stop here; and today, as well as updating you about the progress of the investigation, I am appealing once more to the public for their help, as we continue to build our evidence in this case.
To recap, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury city centre at 4.15pm on Sunday, 4 March, after being poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent.
Both Sergei and Yulia spent weeks critically ill in hospital but thankfully are now making a good recovery. Detective Sergeant Nick Bailey, a Wiltshire police officer, was also seriously ill after being exposed to the nerve agent. He continues to make good progress but remains off work. The medical support provided by NHS, Public Health England and expert scientists has been fantastic, particularly given the fact that we have never had to deal with a poisoning by a Novichok nerve agent before in the UK.
Tragically 44-year-old mother of three, Dawn Sturgess died in hospital on Saturday, 8 July. She fell ill on 30 June after being exposed to Novichok and she never regained consciousness. Her partner, 48-year-old Charlie Rowley, was also exposed to the nerve agent and became seriously ill later that day. He received treatment at Salisbury District Hospital over three weeks.
We have now linked the attack on the Skripals and the events in Amesbury which affected Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley. It now forms one investigation. We do not believe Dawn and Charlie were deliberately targeted, but became victims as a result of the recklessness in which such a toxic nerve agent was disposed of. We know that Novichok was applied to the Skripals’ front door in an area that is accessible to the public, which also endangered the lives of members of the public and emergency service responders.
Our rationale for linking the two investigations is primarily based on the following four facts:
Despite the meticulous and painstaking searches, and although unlikely, it is impossible to guarantee that there are no other materials present in the Salisbury area. Therefore we are repeating the advice from Public Health England that people should not pick up items which do not belong to them. We don’t yet know where the suspects disposed of the Novichok they used to attack the door, where Dawn and Charlie got the bottle that poisoned them, or if it is the same bottle used in both poisonings.
- Firstly, our own analysis, and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in the Hague, has confirmed that the same type of Novichok was used in both cases.
- Secondly, the nerve agent is one of the rarest chemical warfare agents in the world and its discovery, twice, in such close proximity is beyond a coincidence.
- Third, the manner in which the bottle and packaging has been adapted makes it a perfect cover for smuggling the weapon into the country, and a perfect delivery method for the attack against the Skripal’s front door.
- Fourthly, the lack of crossover between the known movements of the suspects and Dawn and Charlie’s known movements around Salisbury, and the fact that there is no evidence to suggest they have been targeted mean it is much more likely Dawn and Charlie found.
As you have heard, today’s charges relate to the first incident involving the Skripals and Nick Bailey. We continue to liaise with the Crown Prosecution Service regarding the poisoning of Dawn and Charlie.
Since March we have received tremendous support from the people of Salisbury and Amesbury and our many partners, which has been invaluable to the investigation team. Today we are releasing further information and a number of images in the hope that the public can assist us further.
On the 14 March the Prime Minister said there is no alternative conclusion other than that the Russian State was culpable for the attempted murder of Mr Skripal and his daughter. We now need to hear from the public.
I am therefore, appealing for anyone who has information about the suspects named by the CPS today as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov to contact police. Both suspects are approximately 40 years old, and are Russian nationals who were travelling on Russian passports.
It is likely that they were travelling under aliases and that these are not their real names. We would like to hear from anyone who knows them. We are releasing these photographs of them, from the travel documents they used to enter the country.
We’d also like to hear from anyone who saw them while they were in the UK between Friday, 2 March and Sunday, 4 March. We are particularly interested in establishing as much as possible about their movements during the period 2pm to 4.30pm on Saturday, 3 March, and 11.30am to 2pm on Sunday, 4 March.
If you recognise them, know who they are or saw them please contact police in confidence on 0800 789 321 or email the investigation team Salisbury2018@met.police.uk
I will now go through their movements in detail:
At 3pm on Friday, 2 March, the suspects arrived at Gatwick airport, having flown from Moscow on Aeroflot flight SU2588.
From there it is believed that they travelled by train into London, arriving at Victoria station at approximately 5.40pm.
They then travelled on London public transport to Waterloo station and were in the area between approximately 6pm and 7pm. They travelled to the City Stay Hotel in Bow Road, East London, where they stayed on Friday, 2 March, and Saturday, 3 March.
On Saturday, 3 March, they left the hotel and took the underground to Waterloo station, arriving at approximately 11.45am, where they caught a train to Salisbury, arriving at approximately 2.25pm.
They are believed to have taken a similar route when they returned to London on the afternoon of Saturday, 3 March. Leaving Salisbury at approximately 4.10pm and arriving in Bow at approximately 8.05 pm.
We assess that this trip was for reconnaissance of the Salisbury area and do not believe that there was any risk to the public from their movements on this day.
On Sunday, 4 March, they made the same journey from the hotel, again using the underground from Bow to Waterloo station at approximately 8.05am, before continuing their journey by train to Salisbury.
CCTV shows them in the vicinity of Mr Skripal’s house and we believe that they contaminated the front door with Novichok.
They left Salisbury and returned to Waterloo Station, arriving at approximately 4.45pm and boarded the London Underground at approximately 6.30pm to London Heathrow Airport.
From Heathrow Airport, they returned to Moscow on Aeroflot flight SU2585, departing at 10.30pm on Sunday, 4 March.
We have no evidence that they re-entered the UK after that date.
Having taken advice from Public Health England, we are confident that there was no risk to members of the public who were on the same flight, trains or public transport used by the suspects.
On 4 May 2018, tests were carried out in the hotel room where the suspects had stayed. A number of samples were tested at DSTL at Porton Down. Two swabs showed contamination of Novichok at levels below that which would cause concern for public health. A decision was made to take further samples from the room as a precautionary measure, including in the same areas originally tested, and all results came back negative. We believe the first process of taking swabs removed the contamination, so low were the traces of Novichok in the room.
Following these tests, experts deemed the room was safe and that it posed no risk to the public.
In terms of those who stayed in the room between 4 March and 4 May; to-date, we have had no reports of any persons falling ill. It is likely, given what we have learnt from this investigation, that anyone exposed to Novichock will have experienced symptoms within 12 hours of exposure. The levels of Novichok we found in the room at the time of police sampling in May were such that they were not enough to cause short or long-term health effects to anyone exposed to it, at that point or thereafter. We will continue to work closely with Public Health England as new information comes to light.
We are asking anyone who stayed at the hotel between 4 March and 4 May to call 0800 789 321 or email Salisbury2018@met.police.uk. Staff from PHE will be on hand to give advice and reassurance.
To help understand the suspect’s movements as fully as possible, we are releasing a selection of CCTV images that clearly show the men and the clothing they were wearing over the weekend of 3 and 4 March.
The public may remember it was a particularly cold weekend and there was heavy snow in Salisbury.
The first CCTV image (timed at 16.22 on Friday 2 March) shows the man we know as “Petrov” arriving at London Gatwick airport.
The second image, also time at 16.22 on Friday 2 March, is of the man we know as “Boshirov” at Gatwick.
Image three, shows the suspects at 16.11 on Saturday, 3 March at Salisbury train station about to catch a train back to London.
Image four captures the suspects at 11.48 on Sunday 4 March having returned to Salisbury. Here they are seen exiting Salisbury railway station.
Image five shows the suspects ten minutes later - at 11.58 - on Wilton Road, Salisbury, we say, moments before the attack.
At 13.05 on Sunday, 4 March, the suspects are caught on CCTV (image six) in Fisherton Street, in Salisbury town centre, heading towards the train station.
Image seven is a rear shot of the suspects in Fisherton Street minutes later, at 13.08 on Sunday, 4 March.
Image eight shows the suspects at Salisbury train station at 13.50 on Sunday, 4 March, as they embark on their journey back to London – “Boshirov” is in the foreground and “Petrov” at the rear.
In image nine, we see the suspects passing through passport control at London Heathrow at 19.28 on Sunday evening (4 March) – in the image, “Petrov” is at the front and “Boshirov” at the back.
Did you see these suspects between Friday 2 March and Sunday 4 March? Do you recognise or know them? If so please call police on 0800 789 321 or email the investigation team at Salisbury2018@met.police.uk
Detectives continue to work around the clock to fully understand the circumstances in which Dawn and Charlie were contaminated.
Detailed and systematic searches have been conducted at a number of sites in Salisbury, Amesbury and London.
Officers have interviewed Charlie a number of times about his recollections prior to falling ill.
Charlie told police he found a box he thought contained perfume in a charity bin on Wednesday, 27 June. Inside the box was a bottle and applicator. He tried to put the two parts together at his home address on Saturday, 30 June, and in doing so got some of the contents on himself. He said Dawn had applied some of the substance to her wrists before feeling unwell.
After Charlie told police where he found the box, cordons were put in place and two bins behind shops in Catherine Street, Salisbury, were removed.
Previously, during a search of Charlie’s home address in Muggleton Road on 10 July a small box labelled as Nina Ricci Premier Jour was recovered from a rubbish bag in the kitchen. On 11 July a small glass bottle with a modified nozzle was found on a kitchen worktop. Tests undertaken at DSTL established the bottle contained a significant amount of Novichok.
We have carried out numerous inquiries in relation to the bottle and are now able to release an image of it with the nozzle attached. We are also releasing an image of the box that the bottle and nozzle were in.
We have spoken to Nina Ricci and undertaken further inquiries. Nina Ricci and our inquiries have confirmed that it is not a genuine Nina Ricci perfume bottle, box or nozzle. It is in fact a counterfeit box, bottle and nozzle that have been especially adapted. I’d like to reassure anyone who has bought Nina Ricci perfume from a legitimate source that they should not be concerned. It is safe.
We cannot account for the whereabouts of the bottle, nozzle or box between the attack on the Skripals on 4 March and when Charlie Rowley said he found it on Wednesday, 27 June.
Did you see this pink box or glass bottle during that time? Do you have any information about where it might have been discarded? If so, please contact the investigation team on 0800 789 321 or Salisbury2018@met.police.uk.
We must continue to build as comprehensive a picture as we can to reassure the public and secure a future prosecution through the UK criminal justice system. Any extra information from the public will be extremely welcome.
In summary, I am asking for the public’s help worldwide and I want to restate the following appeal points:
Anyone with information should contact the investigation team in confidence on 0800 789 321 or emailSalisbury2018@met.police.uk.
- Do you recognise the men from the CCTV or do you know them?
- Did you see them while they were in the UK and in particular during their time in Salisbury?
- Has anyone seen the bottle or box between the attack on the Skripals on Sunday, 4 March to when Charlie says he found it on Wednesday, 27 June? This is vital information.
Counter-terrorism police release images of two suspects in connection with Salisbury attack
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Pic of the suspects and perfume bottle.
Perfume box which Nina Ricci say is fake.
LIVE: Police reveal perfume bottle used in Salisbury novichok poisoning
Perfume box which Nina Ricci say is fake.
LIVE: Police reveal perfume bottle used in Salisbury novichok poisoning
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1. Arriving in UK
2. Suspected recce in Salisbury:
3. Suspects return to Salisbury to carry out attack:
4. CCTV of suspects in Salisbury:
Alistair Bunkall (@AliBunkallSKY) | Twitter
2. Suspected recce in Salisbury:
3. Suspects return to Salisbury to carry out attack:
4. CCTV of suspects in Salisbury:
Alistair Bunkall (@AliBunkallSKY) | Twitter
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5. More CCTV of the suspects in Salisbury:
6. Suspects return to Waterloo and head to Heathrow:
7. Suspects pictures at Heathrow passport control before boarding flight to Moscow:
8. The Nina Ricci pump applicator allegedly used to spray Novichok into Sergei Skripal’s door handle:
Alistair Bunkall (@AliBunkallSKY) | Twitter
6. Suspects return to Waterloo and head to Heathrow:
7. Suspects pictures at Heathrow passport control before boarding flight to Moscow:
8. The Nina Ricci pump applicator allegedly used to spray Novichok into Sergei Skripal’s door handle:
Alistair Bunkall (@AliBunkallSKY) | Twitter
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May says two Russians suspects accused of novichok poisoning worked for Russian military intelligence
May says the government was right to say in March the Russian state was responsible.
Now she can go further, she says.
She can tell MPs that, based on a body of intelligence, the two Russians are officers from the Russian military intelligence service, also known as the GRU.
She says the operation would “almost certainly” have been approved not just within the GRU, but by senior figures in the Russian state. It was not a “rogue operation”, she says.
LIVE: Novichok suspects are Russian spies, May says
May says two Russians suspects accused of novichok poisoning worked for Russian military intelligence
May says the government was right to say in March the Russian state was responsible.
Now she can go further, she says.
She can tell MPs that, based on a body of intelligence, the two Russians are officers from the Russian military intelligence service, also known as the GRU.
She says the operation would “almost certainly” have been approved not just within the GRU, but by senior figures in the Russian state. It was not a “rogue operation”, she says.
LIVE: Novichok suspects are Russian spies, May says
If they are from a " highly-disciplined"organization and the act was" not a rogue operation", why were the men apparently so sloppy and cavalier about the handling/ disposing of the poison?
imo, speculation, rbbm.
Salisbury novichok attack: Police name two Russian suspects
"Two Russians are named as suspects over the nerve agent attack but police say it is likely they were traveling under aliases."
"British prosecutors say they have sufficient evidence to charge two Russian nationals over the Salisbury novichok poisonings.
They said they had enough evidence to charge Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov with the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, Yulia Skripal and police officer Nick Bailey.
The men are also facing charges of conspiracy to murder Mr Skripal, the use and possession of novichok contrary to the Chemical Weapons Act, and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Yulia Skripal and Mr Bailey."
"The GRU is a highly-disciplined organisation with a well-established chain of command. So this was not a rogue operation"
"In response to the latest developments, Russia's foreign ministry said the names of the suspects "do not mean anything to us" and that the investigation required "close cooperation" and "careful analysis".
imo, speculation, rbbm.
Salisbury novichok attack: Police name two Russian suspects
"Two Russians are named as suspects over the nerve agent attack but police say it is likely they were traveling under aliases."
"British prosecutors say they have sufficient evidence to charge two Russian nationals over the Salisbury novichok poisonings.
They said they had enough evidence to charge Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov with the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, Yulia Skripal and police officer Nick Bailey.
The men are also facing charges of conspiracy to murder Mr Skripal, the use and possession of novichok contrary to the Chemical Weapons Act, and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to Yulia Skripal and Mr Bailey."
"The GRU is a highly-disciplined organisation with a well-established chain of command. So this was not a rogue operation"
"In response to the latest developments, Russia's foreign ministry said the names of the suspects "do not mean anything to us" and that the investigation required "close cooperation" and "careful analysis".
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Novichok assassin's grandfather 'was officer in Stalin's SMERSH unit'
Novichok assassin's grandfather 'was a commander in Stalin's SMERSH unit' | Daily Mail Online
Novichok assassin's grandfather 'was a commander in Stalin's SMERSH unit' | Daily Mail Online
I was curious about how this news is being reported in Moscow papers. I checked a couple and notice
1. The later victims, Dawn and Charlie, aren't mentioned, only that the Skripal's recovered.
2. Russian officials dismiss as absurd their involvement and demand fingerprints and an 'open' investigation, implying the UK is being secretive and hysterical.
3. A relative of the Skripal's claims the photos were probably photoshopped.
«Фотографии подозреваемых могли быть подделаны в фотошопе»
4. An op ed piece opines about the absurd amateurishness of the alleged plot (reminding me of some discussions of other cases on websleuths), again implying the UK has probably made it all up.
Двух россиян обвинили в попытке убийства Скрипалей
Note, it takes a long time to translate the links. Also, the Skripals are frequently referred to as 'the violins' and other confusing words. I think that must be a translation for some term used for double-agents.
1. The later victims, Dawn and Charlie, aren't mentioned, only that the Skripal's recovered.
2. Russian officials dismiss as absurd their involvement and demand fingerprints and an 'open' investigation, implying the UK is being secretive and hysterical.
3. A relative of the Skripal's claims the photos were probably photoshopped.
«Фотографии подозреваемых могли быть подделаны в фотошопе»
4. An op ed piece opines about the absurd amateurishness of the alleged plot (reminding me of some discussions of other cases on websleuths), again implying the UK has probably made it all up.
Двух россиян обвинили в попытке убийства Скрипалей
Note, it takes a long time to translate the links. Also, the Skripals are frequently referred to as 'the violins' and other confusing words. I think that must be a translation for some term used for double-agents.
No, Russian word for a violin is similar to the Skripals last name. So it's not a term for double agents, it's their last name translated as Violin.
From google translate:
violin: скрипка (skripka)
From google translate:
violin: скрипка (skripka)
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Sorry, about the excessive unintended bold function.
Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov seen on CCTV
Confusion Reigns Over Identities of Alleged Russian Hitmen
"The two Russian hitmen who British authorities accuse of attempting to murder former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia made several European trips — including half-a-dozen to Geneva — in the months leading up to the Salisbury nerve agent attack.
Confusion Reigns Over Identities of Alleged Russian Hitmen
Western intelligence agencies are probing the movements of Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov trying to establish what they may have been doing during frequent trips across Europe from September 2016 — when their passports were issued— until March this year."
"The suspects stayed at a budget hotel in east London — allegedly police found traces of novichok in their room — and went to Salisbury on March 3 and 4. The first visit was likely for reconnaissance, say British police and prosecutors. But mystery still surrounds the identities of the two would-be assassins. British authorities have said both men were using pseudonyms but that they know their real names."
"The frequent trips the pair took across Europe — to the northern Italian town of Bergamo, Paris, Amsterdam and Geneva — are also being focused on"
Travel manifests obtained first by British newspaper the Daily Telegraph and Russia’s Fontanka newspaper show the men booked about 30 flights in and out of the Russian capital between September 2016 to last March. They flew mainly with Aeroflot but also took flights with Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines as well as a Russian low-cost carrier to fly to Bergamo.
One theory behind the frequent travel is that the men — or their superiors — felt they needed to build up their travel to establish their ‘false identities’ as wealthy international businessmen"
Confusion Reigns Over Identities of Alleged Russian Hitmen
"The two Russian hitmen who British authorities accuse of attempting to murder former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia made several European trips — including half-a-dozen to Geneva — in the months leading up to the Salisbury nerve agent attack.
Confusion Reigns Over Identities of Alleged Russian Hitmen
Western intelligence agencies are probing the movements of Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov trying to establish what they may have been doing during frequent trips across Europe from September 2016 — when their passports were issued— until March this year."
"The suspects stayed at a budget hotel in east London — allegedly police found traces of novichok in their room — and went to Salisbury on March 3 and 4. The first visit was likely for reconnaissance, say British police and prosecutors. But mystery still surrounds the identities of the two would-be assassins. British authorities have said both men were using pseudonyms but that they know their real names."
"The frequent trips the pair took across Europe — to the northern Italian town of Bergamo, Paris, Amsterdam and Geneva — are also being focused on"
Travel manifests obtained first by British newspaper the Daily Telegraph and Russia’s Fontanka newspaper show the men booked about 30 flights in and out of the Russian capital between September 2016 to last March. They flew mainly with Aeroflot but also took flights with Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines as well as a Russian low-cost carrier to fly to Bergamo.
One theory behind the frequent travel is that the men — or their superiors — felt they needed to build up their travel to establish their ‘false identities’ as wealthy international businessmen"
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Putin says Russia has identified suspects behind Skripal novichok poisoning
Putin says Russia has identified suspects behind Skripal novichok poisoning
Putin says Russia has identified suspects behind Skripal novichok poisoning