Originally Posted by
Asturias56
" one may doubt whether these events are getting honestly reported."
Etudiant - they were able to track the Russian killers on CCTV on both visits to Salisbury and they were identified by RUSSIAN activists. And is Russia so dysfunctional that state of the art chemical weapons are available to anyone?
You just look silly when you try and excuse such things
Please note that I'm not making excuses, just that Russia has demonstrated that it will strike ruthlessly and effectively, whereas in these two cases the presumed targets survived.
Two botched killing in a row when the boss is a former KGB man just seems implausible to me.
Plus the peculiar fact that the Skripals appear to be held in custody by the British intelligence community and still have not been allowed to meet the press in person
afaik.
So very murky imho, as is usually the case where the intelligence agencies are involved.