By Craig Murray
In my last post I set out the official Government account of the events in the Skripal Case.
Here I examine the credibility of this story. Next week I shall look at alternative explanations.
UK police have announced that they are “unable to say if Novichok from latest incident same as used on Skripals.”
This is the latest twist in a nerve agent poisoning hoax that is leaving the Theresa May government looking embarrassed and incompetent.
The UK’s top counter-terrorism officer said that police are unable to confirm whether the Novichok nerve agent which has apparently found its way to infect an Amesbury couple, was from the same batch used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, UK last March.
As if the Skripal Affair was odd and ridiculous enough, this latest chapter in the Novichok thriller series seems even more unlikely and outlandish than its previous iteration. As expected, British officials are all lining-up with official statements of righteous indignation, each blaming Russia for another supposed “chemical attack” on British soil.
Two UK citizens were found unconscious in Amesbury, England, allegedly exposed to the same deadly novichok nerve agent as the Skripals last March.
Like the Skripal case, the UK leadership and the Western media jumped on the incident, suggesting Russian responsibility. Novichok is virtually code for alleged Kremlin involvement.
We’re told there was another deadly Russian ‘Novichok‘ WMD attack in sleepy Wiltshire, England this week – and the government’s advice: ‘use baby wipes’. All this and more…
UK Column co-anchors Brian Gerrish and Mike Robinson joined by analyst Alex Thomson for today’s news round-up from the UK and internationally. Watch:
We’re told two British citizens, a man and woman in their 40s, have been hospitalized for apparent exposure to poison in the town of Amesbury, England – just north of Salisbury, where Sergei and Yulia Skripal suffered a near fatal illness back in March.
Four months to the day after the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal the UK government and its mainstream media mouthpieces are launching a massive blame game and diplomatic crisis once again directed towards Russia.
Novichok has now been identified as the culprit in the hospitalization of an Amesbury, UK couple.
All of this has suddenly, and conveniently, unfolded as Russia hosts a massively successful World Cup, and as US President Donald Trump prepares to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in two weeks time on July 16th in Helsinki, Finland.
The latest reports from the Amesbury alleged “Novichok poisoning” have taken a turn for the weirder. According to several reports, UK Minister of State for Security Ben Wallace has said that the Amesbury “poisonings” were neither targetted, nor linked to the Skripals. He said that instead, he believes it is a “contamination by Novichok”.
(ZHE Op-ed) — Update 1: And here come the ‘Russians did it’ allegations… Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said the substance which has left two people critically ill in Amesbury was nerve agent Novichok. The same agent that was allegedly used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal just a few miles away (who miraculously survived […]
Another two people have been allegedly poisoned by the Soviet-era nerve-agent ‘Novichok‘, this time in Amesbury. And Russia and England are both still in the 2018 World Cup, with just over a week left to go. Those probably seem like two unrelated statements: and maybe they are. Then again, maybe not. Regarding this latest alleged […]
