Putin says they have identified Russian novichok

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  1. North Yorks Red

    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    poisoning suspects.
    Wonder how long they had to look?
     
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    I don't put poo in a tin. I prefer a scented bag.

    Russia is a complicated place & Mr Poo in a tin is very popular.

    Like the USA, the powers that be call the shots. Lee Harvey Oswald. The grassy knoll. (I do love a grassy knoll).

    Where is this post going?

    I really can only speculate that whoever is in the frame for this was either press ganged into it, or has been set up.

    Mido? Mostto? Who knows?
     
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    Have I got this totally wrong again? I thought that the UK had identified them from cctv and from flight records into and out of the UK at the time it happened. Putin has then come out and said Russia has located them from this identification and concluded they weren't criminals.

    I didn't think it meant that Putin has found out who they were, simply where they were
     
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    Don't spoil this thread with any "facts".
     
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  5. North Yorks Red

    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    Just quoting an earlier BBC news post.
    My personal theory is they were actually civilians and not officially sanctioned.....right from the second they were identified.
     
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    My guess is that they are civilians, former employees who are now civilians and were paid a lot of money to do the deed and head back to Russia very quickly where they had guarantees they would not face charges.

    That or we did it and framed them
     
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    The UK identified their faces and the aliases they were using. They don't know who they really are.
     
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    Could we not have used Russian civilian ex-secret police to do it?
     
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    One very important question that nobody seems to be asking - why were they issued UK tourist visas in the first place? The fact that they were travelling on fake passports shows just how flimsy our visa system actually is. On the flipside, I know plenty of people who have been refused tourist visas for absolutely absurd reasons, or just purely down to mistakes on the British side. The whole system is not fit for purpose.
     
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    Especially considering they claimed to be from Meerkovo and their referees were Sergei and Aleksandr
     
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    Apparently they were using genuine passports.

    "These two individuals travelled on a genuine Russian passport, making it harder to spot," Security Minister Ben Wallace has told the Commons.
     
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    Totally agree. Are you ready for your five days of Putin and Xi showing their military might?
     
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    Genuine passports, but apparently issued in false names. Obviously there's a lot that we're not being told, but it's all very odd.
     
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    Two old despots doing a lot of willy waving? Sounds brill.
     
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    I did read somewhere that we do know their real names so it will be interesting who they appear as.
     
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    I’ve heard from man in the pub that it was derek griffiths and floella benjamin
     
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    I heard it was Phil Gridelet and Barry Taylor and it was the biscuit crumbs that gave them away .
    Evidence filed in Don Rowings secret negotiation papers cabinet with his stash of blackies eggs
     
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  18. North Yorks Red

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    False alarm, apparently they were only there to see the cathedral :rolleyes:
     
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    Two members of the GRU in the UK on holiday and just happen to pick Salisbury out of probably 50,000 Towns to visit, where it happens a dissident former spy lived and people DIED.

    CONSPIRACY THEORY my arse. As Margaret Rutherord would say MURDER MOST FOUL.
     
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    He survived.
     

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