By motive, Israel at the time was in critical risk the Jews PM rushed to Moscow to talk with Putin I think more than once about the Syrian Wars. It was big turning point of the war, that Putin was set to win, and totally against interest of the West and Israel. Israel was fixing the Ang Moh using the Salisbury plot, to hope the west turn totally hostile against Putin, and want to bear with death and hurt and blood to fight with Russia. The fucking Jews were hopelessly desperate, because Ang Moh are obviously already too weak and selfish and coward to be in any such wars. Especially just to cover Jews lame ass.
The Novichok attack is Mossad's work that Israeli bastard politicians hoped in vain to steer the west to put in resources of war into Syrian War and prevent the victory now already secured by Putin. This is the last result the Jews can handle. The reason is obvious, now Iran has foot hold in Syria to nuke Israel break the Jewish falsehood Iron Dome and Rocket / Missile them day & night.
Putin's S-300 S-400 aiming the skys ready to pop down Jews warplanes from Syrian Air Space, covering Iran's ass from Jews ground missiles.
At the time of Salisbury Novichok attack, the Jews were hopeful that Western Chow Ang Mohs could enter forces into Syria to prevent all these. At that time frame, it was a critical phase of Syrian Wars. Putin's make or break phase. Max troop and risk commitment from Moscow. It would be Maximum Lost of resources if did not make a critical win. Assad could be left to be eaten by Chow Ang Moh's ISIS dogs.
This is my very own analysis and I did not read anything written by others, including articles that I pasted below.
I had pasted because they are slightly relevant.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/skripal-novichok-russia-israel-syria-mi6-and-salisbury/5632102
Skripal, Novichok, Russia, Israel, Syria, MI6 and Salisbury
Former UK Ambassador Craig Murray
By Craig Murray
Global Research, March 14, 2018
TruePublica
Region: Europe, Russia and FSU
Theme: Intelligence, Law and Justice, Media Disinformation
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The same people who assured you that Saddam Hussein had WMD’s now assure you Russian “novichok” nerve agents are being wielded by Vladimir Putin to attack people on British soil. As with the Iraqi WMD dossier, it is essential to comb the evidence very finely. A vital missing word from Theresa May’s statement yesterday was “only”. She did not state that the nerve agent used was manufactured ONLY by Russia. She rather stated this group of nerve agents had been “developed by” Russia. Antibiotics were first developed by a Scotsman, but that is not evidence that all antibiotics are today administered by Scots.
The “novichok” group of nerve agents – a very loose term simply for a collection of new nerve agents the Soviet Union were developing fifty years ago – will almost certainly have been analysed and reproduced by Porton Down. That is entirely what Porton Down is there for. It used to make chemical and biological weapons as weapons, and today it still does make them in small quantities in order to research defences and antidotes. After the fall of the Soviet Union Russian chemists made a lot of information available on these nerve agents. And one country which has always manufactured very similar persistent nerve agents is Israel. This Foreign Policy magazine (a very establishment US publication) article on Israel‘s chemical and biological weapon capability is very interesting indeed. I will return to Israel later in this article.
Incidentally, novichok is not a specific substance but a class of new nerve agents. Sources agree they were designed to be persistent, and of an order of magnitude stronger than sarin or VX. That is rather hard to square with the fact that thankfully nobody has died and those possibly in contact just have to wash their clothes.
From Putin’s point of view, to assassinate Skripal now seems to have very little motivation. If the Russians have waited eight years to do this, they could have waited until after their World Cup. The Russians have never killed a swapped spy before. Just as diplomats, British and otherwise, are the most ardent upholders of the principle of diplomatic immunity, so security service personnel everywhere are the least likely to wish to destroy a system which can be a key aspect of their own personal security; quite literally spy swaps are their “Get Out of Jail Free” card. You don’t undermine that system – probably terminally – without very good reason.
It is worth noting that the “wicked” Russians gave Skripal a far lighter jail sentence than an American equivalent would have received. If a member of US Military Intelligence had sold, for cash to the Russians, the names of hundreds of US agents and officers operating abroad, the Americans would at the very least jail the person for life, and I strongly suspect would execute them. Skripal just received a jail sentence of 18 years, which is hard to square with the narrative of implacable vindictiveness against him. If the Russians had wanted to make an example, that was the time.
It is much more probable that the reason for this assassination attempt refers to something recent or current, than to spying twenty years ago. Were I the British police, I would inquire very closely into Orbis Intelligence.
UK Media Told to Conceal Connections Between Sergei Skripal and MI6
There is no doubt that Skripal was feeding secrets to MI6 at the time that Christopher Steele was an MI6 officer in Moscow, and at the the time that Pablo Miller, another member of Orbis Intelligence, was also an MI6 officer in Russia and directly recruiting agents. It is widely reported on the web and in US media that it was Miller who first recruited Skripal.
It was of course Christopher Steele and Orbis Intelligence who produced for the Clinton camp the sensationalist dossier on Trump links with Russia – including the story of Trump paying to be urinated on by Russian prostitutes – that is a key part of the “Russiagate” affair gripping the US political classes. The extraordinary thing about this is that the Orbis dossier is obvious nonsense which anybody with a professional background can completely demolish, as I did here. Steele’s motive was, like Skripal’s in selling his secrets, cash pure and simple. Steele is a charlatan who knocked up a series of allegations that are either wildly improbable, or would need a high level source access he could not possibly get in today’s Russia, or both. He told the Democrats what they wish to hear and his audience – who had and still have no motivation to look at it critically – paid him highly for it.
I do not know for certain that Pablo Miller helped knock together the Steele dossier on Trump, but it seems very probable given he also served for MI6 in Russia and was working for Orbis. And it seems to me even more probable that Sergei Skripal contributed to the Orbis Intelligence dossier on Trump. Steele and Miller cannot go into Russia and run sources any more, and never would have had access as good as their dossier claims, even in their MI6 days. The dossier was knocked up for huge wodges of cash from whatever they could cobble together. Who better to lend a little corroborative verisimilitude in these circumstances than their old source Skripal?
Skripal was at hand in the UK, and allegedly even close to Miller in Salisbury. He could add in the proper acronym for a Russian committee here or the name of a Russian official there, to make it seem like Steele was providing hard intelligence. Indeed, Skripal’s outdated knowledge might explain some of the dossier’s more glaring errors.
But the problem with double agents like Skripal, who give intelligence for money, is that they can easily become triple agents and you never know when a better offer is going to come along. When Steele produced his dodgy dossier, he had no idea it would ever become so prominent and subject to so much scrutiny. Steele is fortunate in that the US Establishment is strongly motivated not to scrutinise his work closely as their one aim is to “get” Trump. But with the stakes very high, having a very loose cannon as one of the dossier’s authors might be most inconvenient both for Orbis and for the Clinton camp.
If I was the police, I would look closely at Orbis Intelligence.
I am alarmed by the security, spying and armaments industries’ frenetic efforts to stoke Russophobia and heat up the new cold war. I am especially alarmed at the stream of cold war warrior “experts” dominating the news cycles. I write as someone who believes that agents of the Russian state did assassinate Litvinenko, and that the Russian security services carried out at least some of the apartment bombings that provided the pretext for the brutal assault on Chechnya. I believe the Russian occupation of Crimea and parts of Georgia is illegal. On the other hand, in Syria Russia has saved the Middle East from domination by a new wave of US and gulf sponsored extreme jihadists.
The naive view of the world as “goodies” and “baddies”, with our own ruling class as the good guys, is for the birds. I witnessed personally in Uzbekistan the willingness of the UK and US security services to accept and validate intelligence they knew to be false in order to pursue their policy objectives. We should be extremely sceptical of their current anti-Russian narrative. There are many possible suspects in this attack.
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Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010.
Featured image is from the author.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news...cal-weapons-chief-was-mossad-target-1.5912888
Report: Russian Chemical Weapons Chief Was Mossad Target Before Dying Under Mysterious Circumstances
Israel informed the Kremlin that Anatoly Kuntsevich was secretly selling information to Syria, according to Yedioth Ahronoth. He later died during a flight from Aleppo to Moscow, and Syria believes Israel poisoned him
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Anatoly Kuntsevich, one of the former heads of Russia's chemical weapons program who was said to be in charge of the Soviet Union's development of nerve agents in the 1970s and 1980s, was reportedly a target of Mossad, Israel's espionage agency.
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Israel believed Kuntsevich was supplying his chemical weapons know-how to Syria during the 1990s and pressured Russia to cut their relationship. After Russia refused, he died under mysterious circumstances on a flight from Syria to Russia.
According to Yedioth Ahronoth's Ronen Bergman, Kuntsevich oversaw the development of Novichok, the powerful nerve agent suspected to have been used in the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the U.K. earlier this month.
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Kuntsevich allegedly oversaw the program for decades until former Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed him as as his liason with the West as Russia vowed to disband its chemical weapons program following the Soviet Union's collapse.
Kuntsevich, however, reportedly began to establish a relationship with Syria in 1995, in which he would allegedly provide his know-how and some equipment for large sums of money. The Mossad reportedly discovered Kuntsevich's side dealings toward the end of the 1990s, and former Prime Minister Ehud Barak relayed his concerns to the Kremlin. Russia did not intervene, though it remains unclear if Yeltsin was unable to intervene or he simply did not want to.
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According to Bergman, Israel later sent a Mossad agent, under the guise of an independent researcher to meet senior Kremlin officials after Yeltsin's failure to intervene. The agent reportedly tried to trick Russian offcials into admitting that they knew Kuntsevich was selling chemical weapons to the Syrians, though he failed to procure a disclosure.
Kuntsevich died in April 2002 on a flight from Aleppo to Moscow under unknown circumstances, though Syria reportedly believes that the Mossad successfully poisoned him. Bergman adds that the CIA believes Kuntsevich brought information on how to develop Novichok during his final visit to Syria, adding that Kuntsevich's death offset future significant issues for Israel and the West.
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The spy dispute has sent U.K.-Russia relations to Cold War-levels of tension. Vladimir Chizhov, Moscow's EU ambassador, said Russia has no chemical weapons stockpiles and was not behind the poisoning.
"Russia had nothing to do with it," Chizhov told the BBC on Sunday.
AP contributed to this report.
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https://renegadeinc.com/novichok-story-uks-latest-wmd-scam/
Is the ‘Novichok’ story the UKs latest WMD scam?
By Daniel Margrain
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All inept and incompetent governments throughout history have seemingly been guided in their foreign policy approaches by the famous aphorism: “War is the continuation of politics by other means”. Indeed, it is a mark of the insanity of the current Conservative government that Theresa May has chosen belligerence and confrontation over diplomacy with Russia in response to the poisoning of the Russian-cum-British spy, Sergei Skripal and his daughter with a nerve agent in the city of Salisbury where they lived.
Post-imperial arrogance
With the kind of post-imperial arrogance befitting of a nation state that lacks an independent foreign policy, Theresa May demanded that Russia explain the deaths of Mr Skripal and his daughter to her satisfaction. But amid all of the media hyperbole over the last week, what the corporate media omitted to report to the public was the fact that under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) to which the UK is a signatory, the UK government was obliged to provide Russia with a sample of the nerve agent used, along with all related evidence uncovered in the course of the investigation.
Why wasn’t this widely reported in the mainstream corporate media?
What also went largely unreported, was the fact that the treaty allows Russia 10 days to respond. Theresa May provided no evidence regarding Russia’s alleged culpability and instead decided to ignore the terms of the treaty by insisting that the deadline for Putin be reduced to 24 hours.
May claimed that the nerve agent used to kill Mr Skripal and his daughter was Novichok, developed in the USSR. Naturally, in order to determine its identity, the UK experts would have had a sample of it. Since neither the USSR, nor Russia, have ever been known to export Novichok, it can reasonably be assumed that it was synthesized by scientists working at the UK’s only chemical weapons facility at Porton Down.
Circumspect and rational
Compared with the histrionics of May and the establishment mass media, the leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, has been far more circumspect and rational in his approach to the issue. There is a very good reason for this.
“The completion of the verified destruction of Russia’s chemical weapons programme is a major milestone in the achievement of the goals of the Chemical Weapons Convention. I congratulate Russia and I commend all of their experts who were involved for their professionalism and dedication.”
Former UK diplomat Craig Murray points out with reference to the contents published in a prestigious scientific journal by Dr Robin Black, Head of the facilities Detection Laboratory, that the evidence for the existence of Novichoks was scant and their composition unknown. As such “the UK government has absolutely no ‘fingerprint’ information such as impurities that can safely attribute this substance to Russia.”
Demonstrably false
But even if there was evidence of a compound corresponding to a “Novichok”, it doesn’t necessarily follow that Russia was responsible for manufacturing the compound, since no Russian sample can be compared to it. In other words, May’s assertion that the Russian’s killed the Skripal’s on the basis that ‘Novichoks’ can only be made in certain military installations is demonstrably false.
Craig Murray cited the testimony of ex-Soviet scientist, Vil S Mizayanov who alludes to the fact that the chemical compound, whilst developed by Russia, can theoretically be made anywhere. Substantiating his case, Murray noted that Iran succeeded in synthesising a number of Novichoks in full cooperation with the OPCW.
As the former diplomat argued:
“This makes complete nonsense of the Theresa May’s ‘of a type developed by Russia’ line, used to parliament and the UN Security Council. This explains why Porton Down have refused to cave into governmental pressure to say the nerve agent was Russian. If Iran can make a novichok, so can a significant number of states.”
Not adding up
There are other issues to the story that don’t add up, one of which is motive. The first thing any credible criminal investigator would examine in a case like this is who gains the most from this course of events? There is no discernable rationale in which it could be reasonably argued that Russia has anything to gain by killing somebody they could have killed many years previously in far less complicated circumstances.
On the other hand, with their portrayal of Jeremy Corbyn, as a ‘traitor’ and ‘Kremlin stooge’ after he insisted that May adhere to evidence-based decision-making and that her government abide by their international obligations, the Tories and the establishment media potentially have much more, politically, to gain from the tragedy in the domestic sense.
Meanwhile over at the British state broadcaster the BBC… This is how they depict the leader of the opposition who is asking for proper process and the rule of law over the Salisbury incident. The BBC has since denied that they photoshopped Mr Corbyn’s hat so to “make him look more Russian”. The denial has been roundly mocked on social media.
The deaths also provide a distraction from their failed social and economic policies, dirty financial dealings with Russian oligarchs and, as the Falklands shows, there’s nothing quite like the jingoistic threat of war to engender popular public support. Further, with Russia having gained the geo-strategic upper hand in Syria, any attacks on Putin serve the interests of the UK and its allies, internationally.
Mossad/CIA/M15 or was the story fiction?
A significant Middle East ally and regional player is, of course, Israel which has major undeclared stocks of chemical weapons but has refused to ratify the CWC. It is perfectly reasonable under these circumstances to point the finger for the poisoning of Mr Skripal and his daughter at either Mossad, the CIA or M15.
It’s also worth highlighting that in a November 2017 episode of the UK-US drama series, Strike Back, a Russian scientist used Novichok to kill his colleagues. Security analyst, Charles Shoebridge remarked that for 20 years up until this point, almost nobody had heard of Novichok. Coincidence? Perhaps, but which most UK media have avoided any mention of.
In considering all of the above, and the fact that UK intelligence faked the claim that Saddam could strike Britain within 45 minutes, a healthy level of scepticism is required over the latest claims of the UK government.
The Novichok attack is Mossad's work that Israeli bastard politicians hoped in vain to steer the west to put in resources of war into Syrian War and prevent the victory now already secured by Putin. This is the last result the Jews can handle. The reason is obvious, now Iran has foot hold in Syria to nuke Israel break the Jewish falsehood Iron Dome and Rocket / Missile them day & night.
Putin's S-300 S-400 aiming the skys ready to pop down Jews warplanes from Syrian Air Space, covering Iran's ass from Jews ground missiles.
At the time of Salisbury Novichok attack, the Jews were hopeful that Western Chow Ang Mohs could enter forces into Syria to prevent all these. At that time frame, it was a critical phase of Syrian Wars. Putin's make or break phase. Max troop and risk commitment from Moscow. It would be Maximum Lost of resources if did not make a critical win. Assad could be left to be eaten by Chow Ang Moh's ISIS dogs.
This is my very own analysis and I did not read anything written by others, including articles that I pasted below.
I had pasted because they are slightly relevant.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/skripal-novichok-russia-israel-syria-mi6-and-salisbury/5632102
Skripal, Novichok, Russia, Israel, Syria, MI6 and Salisbury
Former UK Ambassador Craig Murray
By Craig Murray
Global Research, March 14, 2018
TruePublica
Region: Europe, Russia and FSU
Theme: Intelligence, Law and Justice, Media Disinformation
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The same people who assured you that Saddam Hussein had WMD’s now assure you Russian “novichok” nerve agents are being wielded by Vladimir Putin to attack people on British soil. As with the Iraqi WMD dossier, it is essential to comb the evidence very finely. A vital missing word from Theresa May’s statement yesterday was “only”. She did not state that the nerve agent used was manufactured ONLY by Russia. She rather stated this group of nerve agents had been “developed by” Russia. Antibiotics were first developed by a Scotsman, but that is not evidence that all antibiotics are today administered by Scots.
The “novichok” group of nerve agents – a very loose term simply for a collection of new nerve agents the Soviet Union were developing fifty years ago – will almost certainly have been analysed and reproduced by Porton Down. That is entirely what Porton Down is there for. It used to make chemical and biological weapons as weapons, and today it still does make them in small quantities in order to research defences and antidotes. After the fall of the Soviet Union Russian chemists made a lot of information available on these nerve agents. And one country which has always manufactured very similar persistent nerve agents is Israel. This Foreign Policy magazine (a very establishment US publication) article on Israel‘s chemical and biological weapon capability is very interesting indeed. I will return to Israel later in this article.
Incidentally, novichok is not a specific substance but a class of new nerve agents. Sources agree they were designed to be persistent, and of an order of magnitude stronger than sarin or VX. That is rather hard to square with the fact that thankfully nobody has died and those possibly in contact just have to wash their clothes.
From Putin’s point of view, to assassinate Skripal now seems to have very little motivation. If the Russians have waited eight years to do this, they could have waited until after their World Cup. The Russians have never killed a swapped spy before. Just as diplomats, British and otherwise, are the most ardent upholders of the principle of diplomatic immunity, so security service personnel everywhere are the least likely to wish to destroy a system which can be a key aspect of their own personal security; quite literally spy swaps are their “Get Out of Jail Free” card. You don’t undermine that system – probably terminally – without very good reason.
It is worth noting that the “wicked” Russians gave Skripal a far lighter jail sentence than an American equivalent would have received. If a member of US Military Intelligence had sold, for cash to the Russians, the names of hundreds of US agents and officers operating abroad, the Americans would at the very least jail the person for life, and I strongly suspect would execute them. Skripal just received a jail sentence of 18 years, which is hard to square with the narrative of implacable vindictiveness against him. If the Russians had wanted to make an example, that was the time.
It is much more probable that the reason for this assassination attempt refers to something recent or current, than to spying twenty years ago. Were I the British police, I would inquire very closely into Orbis Intelligence.
UK Media Told to Conceal Connections Between Sergei Skripal and MI6
There is no doubt that Skripal was feeding secrets to MI6 at the time that Christopher Steele was an MI6 officer in Moscow, and at the the time that Pablo Miller, another member of Orbis Intelligence, was also an MI6 officer in Russia and directly recruiting agents. It is widely reported on the web and in US media that it was Miller who first recruited Skripal.
My own ex-MI6 sources tell me that is not quite true as Skripal was “walk-in”, but that Miller certainly was involved in running Skripal for a while. Sadly Pablo Miller’s LinkedIn profile has recently been deleted, but it is again widely alleged on the web that it showed him as a consultant for Orbis Intelligence and a consultant to the FCO and – wait for it – with an address in Salisbury.
If anyone can recover that Linkedin entry do get in touch, though British Government agencies will have been active in the internet scrubbing.It was of course Christopher Steele and Orbis Intelligence who produced for the Clinton camp the sensationalist dossier on Trump links with Russia – including the story of Trump paying to be urinated on by Russian prostitutes – that is a key part of the “Russiagate” affair gripping the US political classes. The extraordinary thing about this is that the Orbis dossier is obvious nonsense which anybody with a professional background can completely demolish, as I did here. Steele’s motive was, like Skripal’s in selling his secrets, cash pure and simple. Steele is a charlatan who knocked up a series of allegations that are either wildly improbable, or would need a high level source access he could not possibly get in today’s Russia, or both. He told the Democrats what they wish to hear and his audience – who had and still have no motivation to look at it critically – paid him highly for it.
I do not know for certain that Pablo Miller helped knock together the Steele dossier on Trump, but it seems very probable given he also served for MI6 in Russia and was working for Orbis. And it seems to me even more probable that Sergei Skripal contributed to the Orbis Intelligence dossier on Trump. Steele and Miller cannot go into Russia and run sources any more, and never would have had access as good as their dossier claims, even in their MI6 days. The dossier was knocked up for huge wodges of cash from whatever they could cobble together. Who better to lend a little corroborative verisimilitude in these circumstances than their old source Skripal?
Skripal was at hand in the UK, and allegedly even close to Miller in Salisbury. He could add in the proper acronym for a Russian committee here or the name of a Russian official there, to make it seem like Steele was providing hard intelligence. Indeed, Skripal’s outdated knowledge might explain some of the dossier’s more glaring errors.
But the problem with double agents like Skripal, who give intelligence for money, is that they can easily become triple agents and you never know when a better offer is going to come along. When Steele produced his dodgy dossier, he had no idea it would ever become so prominent and subject to so much scrutiny. Steele is fortunate in that the US Establishment is strongly motivated not to scrutinise his work closely as their one aim is to “get” Trump. But with the stakes very high, having a very loose cannon as one of the dossier’s authors might be most inconvenient both for Orbis and for the Clinton camp.
If I was the police, I would look closely at Orbis Intelligence.
To return to Israel. Israel has the nerve agents. Israel has Mossad which is extremely skilled at foreign assassinations. Theresa May claimed Russian propensity to assassinate abroad as a specific reason to believe Russia did it. Well Mossad has an even greater propensity to assassinate abroad. And while I am struggling to see a Russian motive for damaging its own international reputation so grievously, Israel has a clear motivation for damaging the Russian reputation so grievously. Russian action in Syria has undermined the Israeli position in Syria and Lebanon in a fundamental way, and Israel has every motive for damaging Russia’s international position by an attack aiming to leave the blame on Russia.
Both the Orbis and Israeli theories are speculations. But they are no more a speculation, and no more a conspiracy theory, than the idea that Vladimir Putin secretly sent agents to Salisbury to attack Skripal with a secret nerve agent. I can see absolutely no reason to believe that is a more valid speculation than the others at this point.I am alarmed by the security, spying and armaments industries’ frenetic efforts to stoke Russophobia and heat up the new cold war. I am especially alarmed at the stream of cold war warrior “experts” dominating the news cycles. I write as someone who believes that agents of the Russian state did assassinate Litvinenko, and that the Russian security services carried out at least some of the apartment bombings that provided the pretext for the brutal assault on Chechnya. I believe the Russian occupation of Crimea and parts of Georgia is illegal. On the other hand, in Syria Russia has saved the Middle East from domination by a new wave of US and gulf sponsored extreme jihadists.
The naive view of the world as “goodies” and “baddies”, with our own ruling class as the good guys, is for the birds. I witnessed personally in Uzbekistan the willingness of the UK and US security services to accept and validate intelligence they knew to be false in order to pursue their policy objectives. We should be extremely sceptical of their current anti-Russian narrative. There are many possible suspects in this attack.
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Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010.
Featured image is from the author.
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Report: Russian Chemical Weapons Chief Was Mossad Target Before Dying Under Mysterious Circumstances
Israel informed the Kremlin that Anatoly Kuntsevich was secretly selling information to Syria, according to Yedioth Ahronoth. He later died during a flight from Aleppo to Moscow, and Syria believes Israel poisoned him
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Anatoly Kuntsevich, one of the former heads of Russia's chemical weapons program who was said to be in charge of the Soviet Union's development of nerve agents in the 1970s and 1980s, was reportedly a target of Mossad, Israel's espionage agency.
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Also in Shikhany (1987), I took these pictures of general general Anatoly Kuntsevich of the Soviet Chemical Warfare Troops. Later he was / pic.twitter.com/9FHb9iRP6z
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Israel believed Kuntsevich was supplying his chemical weapons know-how to Syria during the 1990s and pressured Russia to cut their relationship. After Russia refused, he died under mysterious circumstances on a flight from Syria to Russia.
According to Yedioth Ahronoth's Ronen Bergman, Kuntsevich oversaw the development of Novichok, the powerful nerve agent suspected to have been used in the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the U.K. earlier this month.
>>'Moscow Rules': Why Russian defectors are fair game in Britain | Analysis
Kuntsevich allegedly oversaw the program for decades until former Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed him as as his liason with the West as Russia vowed to disband its chemical weapons program following the Soviet Union's collapse.
Kuntsevich, however, reportedly began to establish a relationship with Syria in 1995, in which he would allegedly provide his know-how and some equipment for large sums of money. The Mossad reportedly discovered Kuntsevich's side dealings toward the end of the 1990s, and former Prime Minister Ehud Barak relayed his concerns to the Kremlin. Russia did not intervene, though it remains unclear if Yeltsin was unable to intervene or he simply did not want to.
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According to Bergman, Israel later sent a Mossad agent, under the guise of an independent researcher to meet senior Kremlin officials after Yeltsin's failure to intervene. The agent reportedly tried to trick Russian offcials into admitting that they knew Kuntsevich was selling chemical weapons to the Syrians, though he failed to procure a disclosure.
Kuntsevich died in April 2002 on a flight from Aleppo to Moscow under unknown circumstances, though Syria reportedly believes that the Mossad successfully poisoned him. Bergman adds that the CIA believes Kuntsevich brought information on how to develop Novichok during his final visit to Syria, adding that Kuntsevich's death offset future significant issues for Israel and the West.
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The spy dispute has sent U.K.-Russia relations to Cold War-levels of tension. Vladimir Chizhov, Moscow's EU ambassador, said Russia has no chemical weapons stockpiles and was not behind the poisoning.
"Russia had nothing to do with it," Chizhov told the BBC on Sunday.
AP contributed to this report.
https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4968833
https://renegadeinc.com/novichok-story-uks-latest-wmd-scam/
Is the ‘Novichok’ story the UKs latest WMD scam?
By Daniel Margrain
Politics | Bookmark to dashboard
All inept and incompetent governments throughout history have seemingly been guided in their foreign policy approaches by the famous aphorism: “War is the continuation of politics by other means”. Indeed, it is a mark of the insanity of the current Conservative government that Theresa May has chosen belligerence and confrontation over diplomacy with Russia in response to the poisoning of the Russian-cum-British spy, Sergei Skripal and his daughter with a nerve agent in the city of Salisbury where they lived.
Post-imperial arrogance
With the kind of post-imperial arrogance befitting of a nation state that lacks an independent foreign policy, Theresa May demanded that Russia explain the deaths of Mr Skripal and his daughter to her satisfaction. But amid all of the media hyperbole over the last week, what the corporate media omitted to report to the public was the fact that under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) to which the UK is a signatory, the UK government was obliged to provide Russia with a sample of the nerve agent used, along with all related evidence uncovered in the course of the investigation.
Why wasn’t this widely reported in the mainstream corporate media?
What also went largely unreported, was the fact that the treaty allows Russia 10 days to respond. Theresa May provided no evidence regarding Russia’s alleged culpability and instead decided to ignore the terms of the treaty by insisting that the deadline for Putin be reduced to 24 hours.
When Russia formally requested that the UK submit a sample of its evidence to the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), May refused the request. Why? The only logical reason that can be deduced, is that no evidence exists.
Suspicions that the UK’s role in the crisis is not that of the honest broker were further heightened after it was revealed that on March 14, the country blocked a Russia-drafted UN Security Council statement calling for an urgent inquiry into the incident.May claimed that the nerve agent used to kill Mr Skripal and his daughter was Novichok, developed in the USSR. Naturally, in order to determine its identity, the UK experts would have had a sample of it. Since neither the USSR, nor Russia, have ever been known to export Novichok, it can reasonably be assumed that it was synthesized by scientists working at the UK’s only chemical weapons facility at Porton Down.
Circumspect and rational
Compared with the histrionics of May and the establishment mass media, the leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, has been far more circumspect and rational in his approach to the issue. There is a very good reason for this.
Barely mentioned in the press was the fact that nearly seven months ago, Russia had destroyed all of its stockpiles of chemical weapons.
The Director-General of the OPCW, Ambassador Ahmet Üzümcü, stated:“The completion of the verified destruction of Russia’s chemical weapons programme is a major milestone in the achievement of the goals of the Chemical Weapons Convention. I congratulate Russia and I commend all of their experts who were involved for their professionalism and dedication.”
Former UK diplomat Craig Murray points out with reference to the contents published in a prestigious scientific journal by Dr Robin Black, Head of the facilities Detection Laboratory, that the evidence for the existence of Novichoks was scant and their composition unknown. As such “the UK government has absolutely no ‘fingerprint’ information such as impurities that can safely attribute this substance to Russia.”
Demonstrably false
But even if there was evidence of a compound corresponding to a “Novichok”, it doesn’t necessarily follow that Russia was responsible for manufacturing the compound, since no Russian sample can be compared to it. In other words, May’s assertion that the Russian’s killed the Skripal’s on the basis that ‘Novichoks’ can only be made in certain military installations is demonstrably false.
Craig Murray cited the testimony of ex-Soviet scientist, Vil S Mizayanov who alludes to the fact that the chemical compound, whilst developed by Russia, can theoretically be made anywhere. Substantiating his case, Murray noted that Iran succeeded in synthesising a number of Novichoks in full cooperation with the OPCW.
As the former diplomat argued:
“This makes complete nonsense of the Theresa May’s ‘of a type developed by Russia’ line, used to parliament and the UN Security Council. This explains why Porton Down have refused to cave into governmental pressure to say the nerve agent was Russian. If Iran can make a novichok, so can a significant number of states.”
Not adding up
There are other issues to the story that don’t add up, one of which is motive. The first thing any credible criminal investigator would examine in a case like this is who gains the most from this course of events? There is no discernable rationale in which it could be reasonably argued that Russia has anything to gain by killing somebody they could have killed many years previously in far less complicated circumstances.
On the other hand, with their portrayal of Jeremy Corbyn, as a ‘traitor’ and ‘Kremlin stooge’ after he insisted that May adhere to evidence-based decision-making and that her government abide by their international obligations, the Tories and the establishment media potentially have much more, politically, to gain from the tragedy in the domestic sense.
The deaths also provide a distraction from their failed social and economic policies, dirty financial dealings with Russian oligarchs and, as the Falklands shows, there’s nothing quite like the jingoistic threat of war to engender popular public support. Further, with Russia having gained the geo-strategic upper hand in Syria, any attacks on Putin serve the interests of the UK and its allies, internationally.
Mossad/CIA/M15 or was the story fiction?
A significant Middle East ally and regional player is, of course, Israel which has major undeclared stocks of chemical weapons but has refused to ratify the CWC. It is perfectly reasonable under these circumstances to point the finger for the poisoning of Mr Skripal and his daughter at either Mossad, the CIA or M15.
Interestingly, Igor Nikulin, a former chemical weapons adviser to the UN secretary general, claims the U.S and possibly the UK are behind the Salisbury attack and adds that Russia have never possessed the chemical used.
The final possibility is that the UK government concocted the entire nerve agent poisoning scenario. It should be noted that there have been no other reports of victims of Novichok poisoning in the vicinity of Salisbury on or around the date of the alleged incident, nor of testimonies from survivors. According to the Times, 40 people needed treatment after the Salisbury poisoning – a claim contradicted by the Consultant in emergency medicine, from Salisbury NHS Trust.It’s also worth highlighting that in a November 2017 episode of the UK-US drama series, Strike Back, a Russian scientist used Novichok to kill his colleagues. Security analyst, Charles Shoebridge remarked that for 20 years up until this point, almost nobody had heard of Novichok. Coincidence? Perhaps, but which most UK media have avoided any mention of.
In considering all of the above, and the fact that UK intelligence faked the claim that Saddam could strike Britain within 45 minutes, a healthy level of scepticism is required over the latest claims of the UK government.
