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| Novichok dose 'could have killed 4K': Security officials reveal Russian assassins' perfume bottle had enough nerve agent to cause 'significant loss of life' |
| 2018-09-07 |
| [MAIL] The perfume bottle full of Novichok used to target Sergei and Yulia Skripal contained enough of the nerve agent to kill 4,000 people, it was claimed today. A security official said the two Russian agents accused of carrying out the Salisbury attack had brought enough Novichok to cause 'significant loss of life'. The UK's envoy to the UN yesterday accused Moscow of 'playing dice' with British lives after the finger was pointed at Vladimir Putin and the GRU. The attack left the Skripals critically ill and led to the death of British mother Dawn Sturgess, but the nerve agent could have cost thousands more lives, The Times reported. And security sources have also claimed the police and secret service are probing whether the novichok hidden in a high-tech perfume bottle entered Britain in a diplomatic bag then smuggled into the Russian embassy in London. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 A simple carpenter's hammer, theoretically, could be used to kill 4K people, albeit one at a time. Call me suspicious, but this really sound like a "Fake But Accurate/Too Good To Be False" type of tidbit. |
| Posted by: magpie 2018-09-07 14:30 |
| #4 One of the guys has "ADIC" on his hat. That didn't yield much. Some possibilities: ADIC Advanced Digital Information Corporation ADIC Abu Dhabi Investment Company ADIC Assistant Director in Charge (US FBI) ADIC Australian Dairy Industry Council ADIC Aerospace Defense Intelligence Center ADIC Air Defense Intelligence Center ADIC AFSCF Development Integration Committee |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-09-07 12:45 |
| #3 The names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirovs appeared on the passports but are thought to be aliases. We don't know who these two really are and we don't know for certain they are Russian--it is a suspicion at this time based on travel patterns. As P2K said "You have the method, but you don't have the means. The manner of delivery is the critical part." It would seem that the delivery is uncertain at this time. It is thought it was put on the doorknob. Did anyone see these two putting Novichok on the doorknob? Any video surveillance video? It would seem that there would be some risk to Petrov and Boshirovs without some minimal protection to handle the stuff and apply it without killing yourself in the process. I'd say we still have bupkis at this point in time. I've always been suspicious of this story and it hasn't gotten any better with time. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-09-07 12:35 |
| #2 You don't have to convince a student of Israeli history that Her Majesty's Government are pathological liars - but, IMO, this is too much even for them. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-07 11:27 |
| #1 You have the method, but you don't have the means. The manner of delivery is the critical part. The bottle couldn't distribute its contents in a manner to take out 4K. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-09-07 08:03 |