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A man who is critically ill after being exposed to an unknown substance in Wiltshire is a Russian national convicted of spying for Britain, the BBC understands.
Sergei Skripal, 66, was granted refuge in the UK following a "spy swap" between the US and Russia in 2010.
He and a woman, 33, were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping centre in Salisbury on Sunday.
Zizzi restaurant in Salisbury has been closed by police "as a precaution".
The substance has not been identified, but Public Health England said there was no known risk to the public's health [....]
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The Guardian has published elaboration by Luke Harding, Steven Morris and Caroline Bannock:
Former Russian spy critically ill in UK 'after exposure to substance'
Sergei Skripal, 66, and woman in 30s found unconscious on bench in Salisbury shopping centre
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 10:33pm
Kremlin ‘ready to cooperate’ over former spy’s illness in UK
By Kate de Pury @ A.P., March 6
by artappraiser on Tue, 03/06/2018 - 3:58am
Ah yes, always cooperative.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/06/2018 - 7:20am
Sergei Skripal believed to have been poisoned with nerve agent
Investigators think nerve agent deliberately used on former spy and his daughter in Salisbury
By Vikram Dodd, Luke Harding & Ewen MacAskill @ TheGuardian.com, March 7
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/07/2018 - 1:07pm
Waiting for Consortium News or RT link to be posted by our usual doubter "proving Putin and the KGB were definitely innocent" of this poisoning.
by NCD on Wed, 03/07/2018 - 1:51pm
Yez. Wouldn't be surprised to see some even blame the poisoning on the American hegemon trying to make it look like it waz Russians. It's always got to be that the American Empire is all powerful and is responsible for everything one way or another, doppelganger theory of American Exceptionalism.
What I am not handling well since Trump is that more and more the far righties are on board with the whole deep state thing that used to belong to the far left. And that effect seems to be infiltrating further and further into traditionally less nutsy folks. Since you mentioned it, I went to check Consortium News and what I found is a piece by Ray McGovern not only trying to make the case that the Jane Mayer of the New Yorker and the evil NYTimes in general are fake-news pumping anti-Russia hysteria, which I would expect, but also pointing to a recent Joe DiGenova op-ed (he of the the vast right wing Paula Jones conspiracy, along with wife Victoria Toensing) on possible Hillary crimes as "cogent"
It used to be so easy: the far right was for strong military/defense and aggressive foreign policy and weak Federal domestic government, and the far left vicey versa.
Sometimes it almost seems if our political system is moving to these two extremes: moderates on one side, radicals on the other. Sometimes the moderates are Clintonians, sometimes they are establishment GOP, what they have in common is that they are all elite educated cosmopolitans trying to pull the wool over people's eyes with crap like rationality and reason.
Strange bedfellows all. Boggles my mind sometimes, these new coalitions.
I know one thing: CNN's ad campaign that sometimes an apple is just an apple (and sometimes mother Russia really does just kill enemies) isn't going to get them new viewers. Ultra complex conspiratorial thinking is the true hysteria going on.
by artappraiser on Wed, 03/07/2018 - 9:20pm
Good points. I note at Raymcgovern.com its all Deep State corruption, west forcing Putin to defend Russia, annex Crimea.
I guess the Deep State forced Putin to poison people in UK..??
Likely, now neither McGovern or Consortium will even mention this latest incident. It's too much a stretch to blame the US.
Consortium had a long analysis of the "travesty of justice" in attributing the Litvinenko polonium business on Russia, but they concluded, after paragraphs and paragraphs it's likely true.
I note Robert Parry has gone to a place where he no longer will devote himself to revealing the constant overwhelming mendacity perpetrated by the US government.
by NCD on Wed, 03/07/2018 - 10:01pm