The Briefing Room
General Category => World News => Topic started by: txradioguy on March 12, 2018, 06:01:56 pm
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Theresa May dramatically pointed the finger at Vladimir Putin tonight over the nerve gas attack on a former spy.
The Prime Minister said the facts increasingly suggested Russia was behind the apparent 'hit' on double-agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.
Branding the attack a 'reckless and despicable act', Mrs May said the substance used was a 'military grade' agent Moscow has produced.
Together with Russia's previous actions and tactics, including the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, the UK authorities had concluded it was 'highly likely' to be involved in the episode.
In a tough statement updating MPs after a meeting of the National Security Council, Mrs May said: 'It is now clear that Mr Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with military grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia.
'This is part of a group of nerve agents known as novichok.
'Based on the positive identification of this chemical agent by world leading experts at the laboratory at Port Down, our knowledge that Russia has previously produced this agent and would still be cap able of doing so, Russia's record of conducting state sponsored assassinations, and our assessment that Russia views defectors as a legitimate target for assassination the government has concluded that it is highly likely Russia was responsible for the act against Sergei and Yulia Skripal.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5488531/Theresa-denial-not-blaming-Kremlin-nerve-gas-attack.html#ixzz59Yi6EoBr (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5488531/Theresa-denial-not-blaming-Kremlin-nerve-gas-attack.html#ixzz59Yi6EoBr)
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I thought Trump was the only "Furious" world leader?
I'm so confused.
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I thought Trump was the only "Furious" world leader?
I'm so confused.
He's the only one who's furious with a brash, over-the-top American sort of fury. May was furious in the typically understated British way. ^-^
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Apparently Russia doesn't care that everyone knows they did it...
In your face murder to set an example.
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He's the only one who's furious with a brash, over-the-top American sort of fury. May was furious in the typically understated British way. ^-^
Oh the old "Stiff Upper Lip" and all the rot type furious . :cool:
@The_Reader_David
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Tillerson: Ex-spy's poisoning 'clearly came from Russia'
The Hill, Mar 12 2018, Jacqueline Thomsen
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Monday that the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in Britain “clearly came from Russia†and “certainly will trigger a response."
Tillerson said in a statement that he doesn’t know if the Kremlin was aware of the poisoning, but that the nerve agent used in the attack could not have come from any other country.
He called the attack “a really egregious act†and said it was “almost beyond comprehension†that officials of any government would use the poison in a public location.
“From Ukraine to Syria — and now the [United Kingdom] — Russia continues to be an irresponsible force of instability in the world, acting with open disregard for the sovereignty of other states and the life of their citizens,†Tillerson said.
Ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found to have been poisoned with a nerve agent in Britain last week.
More: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/378040-tillerson-ex-spys-poisoning-clearly-came-from-russia (http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/378040-tillerson-ex-spys-poisoning-clearly-came-from-russia)
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Britain Gives Russia 'Until Midnight' To Explain Use Of Nerve Gas
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/13/593151061/britain-gives-russia-until-midnight-to-explain-use-of-nerve-gas (https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/13/593151061/britain-gives-russia-until-midnight-to-explain-use-of-nerve-gas)
March 13, 2018
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Tuesday that Russia has "until midnight tonight" to explain how a lethal Novichok nerve agent that was developed in Russia came to be used on U.K. soil. Johnson said Britain is preparing to take "commensurate but robust" action.
Reiterating British Prime Minister Theresa May's statement that it was "highly likely" Russia was to blame for the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, Johnson said, "the use of this nerve agent would represent the first use of nerve agents on the continent of Europe since the Second World War."....
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Until midnight, then what?
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"Stop! Or I'll say Stop again!
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Apparently Russia doesn't care that everyone knows they did it...
In your face murder to set an example.
:thumbsup:
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Interesting ... shortly after, Trump fires Tillerson.