UK Foreign Office Denies Claiming Russia Responsible For Nerve Agent, Deletes Tweet

Update: It appears that either the British government can't keep its lies and proof-less accusations straight or something far more nefarious is at play.

Following headlines (below) that British government scientists admitted they couldn’t tell where the poison - identified by the UK as A-234, also known as Novichok, used in the Salisbury poisoning of the Skripals - came from, undermining a number of claims to come out of Westminster, The UK Foreign Office denies claiming the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning of the Skripals came directly from Russia, despite admitting it sent a tweet saying exactly that, and Boris Johnson making the same claim.

The UK Foreign Office has admitted it deleted the tweet which directly stated that the nerve agent came direct from Russia.

London has directly accused the Kremlin on at least three occasions of being behind the chemical attack on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. 

As RT notes, bizarrely, the Foreign Office denies Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson claimed the novichock “categorically” came from Russia, despite a recorded interview clearly showing he did.

The Foreign Office has not yet deleted a tweet in which the UK's ambassador to Russia, Laurie Bristow, reiterates the accusation of Moscow being behind the poisoning.

The row between Russia and Britain is reaching boiling point as officials from the OPCW meet Russian representatives on Wednesday.

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As we detailed previously, following an embarrassing admission by a UK government scientist that conjured up images of Colin Powell shaking a test tube, Russia is demanding the UK apologize for rushing to judgment and blaming Russia for the attack on former double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.

During an interview with reporters in Ankara, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, said the UK has no proof Russia was behind the poisoning and that "their theory is not confirmed in any way because it can't be confirmed." Russia has persistently denied playing any role in the poisoning.

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He also suggested the UK own up to the fact that it jumped to conclusions about Russia's involvement, and admit its mistake to its EU allies.

"The British Foreign Office, which accused President Putin, the Prime Minister of Great Britain need to look their EU colleagues in the eye" over what was said

The diplomatic row caused by the poisoning has since escalated into a full-blown geopolitical crisis, with 28 countries and Nato expelling Russian diplomats, while Russia has retaliated by expelling their diplomats.

Gary Aitkenhead, the head scientist at the UK's Porton Down military laboratory facility, told Sky News that his team was unable to trace the origins of the military grade novichok nerve agent that the UK claims was used in the attack.

"We were able to identify it as novichok, to identify that it was military-grade nerve agent," Aitkenhead said. "We have not identified the precise source, but we have provided the scientific info to government who have then used a number of other sources to piece together the conclusions you have come to."

The chief scientist said that establishing the Novichok's origin required "other inputs," some of which are intelligence based and which only the government has access to.

Aitkenhead added: "It is our job to provide the scientific evidence of what this particular nerve agent is, we identified that it is from this particular family and that it is a military grade, but it is not our job to say where it was manufactured."

Russia has demanded that the UK hand over a sample of the nerve agent for it to analyze, while the UK demanded that Russia proffer an explanation for how the nerve agent ended up outside Russia.

But after more than a month of the mainstream media refusing to conduct more than a surface level survey of the "facts", this is perhaps the best indication yet that the UK has no evidence that the Skripal poisoning - like Brexit and Trump's election - is also Russian President Vladimir Putin's fault.

Comments

pods GreatUncle Wed, 04/04/2018 - 09:52 Permalink

"Military-grade" means particle size manipulation (micronization) for small molecules (as opposed to biological agents, which have a unique fingerprint, ala the anthrax from the US "attacks.")

To make "military-grade" small-molecule agents all you need is a spray dryer or jet mill.  

Sounds scary to the population though.  

pods

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JSBach1 skbull44 Wed, 04/04/2018 - 10:24 Permalink

Here is what the father of Alexander Litvinenko has to say on the Skripal poisoning and that of his own son Alexander (be sure to view the RT interview clip):

Walter Litvinenko used to support the theory of Russia’s involvement in the 2006 poisoning of his son, Alexander, in London, but he changed his mind after years of analyzing the inconsistencies of the investigation...

They realized that they have screwed up big time [with the Litvinenko poisoning] and decided to change their tactics a bit. Therefore, they do not show [any evidence] now, but keep it all in secret waiting for Russia to react to it. If there was, as they say, the ‘Russian trace’ there, everything would have been clear long time ago

The Skripal scandal would eventually backfire on those who initiated it, Litvinenko said. “It will be very difficult to hide it all. And they will eventually fail. They will be caught, and Theresa May will be very ashamed. And this clown, their Foreign Minister [Boris Johnson] – he will be very ashamed too.”

people like Alexander find themselves in a situation where they effectively become hostages of foreign governments and intelligence agencies. He said it applies to both the rich and powerful who have left Russia after having run-ins with the law, such as the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky, as well as less prominent citizens such as Sergei Skripal.

They are hostages, all of them are hostages of the American authorities, who strive for the world dominance. As long as that’s the case – they will kill the Russians, they’ll kill anybody who’s against it

It’s not beneficial for them if Skripal stays alive. And this girl – she knows nothing. Skripal knows. She simply came to visit her father and got into this,” Litvinenko said. They’ll let his daughter walk away, probably. But if she knows anything, she won’t get out of it either.

https://www.rt.com/news/422999-litvinenko-father-skripal-case-truth/

https://cnmnewz.com/2018/04/02/uk-investigators-set-to-hide-the-truth-n… 

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Adolph.H. BullyBearish Wed, 04/04/2018 - 10:48 Permalink

Now that the hysterical childless lesbian bitch cellulite premier thing has hoisted on her own dildo, everyone wants to erase the traces of the huge blunder she made because it must not leave any trace in future history books. 

Remember tomorrow's narrative will be to show that Russia escalated everything up to the war because we are rightful and Russia is not by definition.  

So exactly as was trashed the initial polish declaration of war against Germany in 1939, they want to remove this, as well as all over things that will not be in favor of their twisted theories. 

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keep the basta… giovanni_f Wed, 04/04/2018 - 11:06 Permalink

Russians could be well out of Seattle, the whole 1300 miles of west coast has been slow slipping for about 18 months.

I would be jolly grateful to be well away.

Slow slipping means tiny tremors  all the time. now increased at 1 and 2s and few 3s and occasional bigger quakes.  UGS says slow slips lead to big quakes. Happened with Japan. Seen a few earth cracks in other countries which happened before Fukishima quake.

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Boubou caconhma Wed, 04/04/2018 - 10:55 Permalink

It's clear how they spend their time.' How can we fake or hype our statements to further the agenda of the day.

Any intelligence not supportive of the agenda must be suppressed by any means'

Notice Islamists in UK are now flavor of the month just as Russia has been promoted to the antichrist.

Statements counter to the propaganda are increasingly criminalized.

In fact in UK now, slagging Islam or perverts is a crime worse than anti Israelism.

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the phantom Joe Davola Wed, 04/04/2018 - 09:45 Permalink

Looks like this charade has run it's course.  May & the rest of her clowns are going to have to explain: why Brexit is going nowhere, why the average Brit's standard of living is decreasing, why Islamization of London is going full steam, and hate speech by Muslims against the West and pro-Sharia is protected.  

 

There are not enough eggs in England to throw at this sorry bunch.

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Joe Davola the phantom Wed, 04/04/2018 - 10:02 Permalink

It's always enlightening to remember that the Brits managed to dump Churchill (twice) as soon as they realized he guided them to a winning position in a war.

And further to recall that one of the first things Obama did was remove Churchill's bust from the Oval Office - because Obama is "part Kenyan" (another entry in the operative truth category).

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keep the basta… the phantom Wed, 04/04/2018 - 10:57 Permalink

I am stunned. They removed tweets and lied. Where are the 100 or 110 affected people at the hospital that May declared? and the hospital rep denied existed? The crazy hate filled  spiteful actions? surely they knew they would be found out.

Maybe thought the scientists would be bullied or did not realise that scientifically Porton guys could not actually credibly make the identification May and Boris wanted. Porton Down was given 40 million gift  by that shut up and go away guy... likely science research is  poorly funded. May  and Boris probably have poor science education, not used to hard fact, not get it. Poor brave scientist.

I have been concerned that this was more complex. Hard to accept the identity of what the Russians were affected with unless the russians saw them and the samples taken etc with a line of custody given the extraordinary ability of the english to lie. genetic IMO.

English bloodline explains my father and siblings.psychopaths and its genetic and hard wired.

 Boris is jewish bloodline, May has the dreadful servant line of bitterness like Thatcher and her son. 

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keep the basta… BaBaBouy Wed, 04/04/2018 - 11:18 Permalink

The scientists who stuck to their truth are the only reason that this has blown up. Incredible ethical responsible bravery.

He deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Russians would be safer out of england. 

No one stopped the colon powell lies etc in the UN as the Iraqi rep cried and begged or stood up for savachenko who blew the whistle in the Ukraine parliament about the Maiden event, pointing to people who were there and part of it.

 

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NoDebt UndergroundPost Wed, 04/04/2018 - 09:24 Permalink

"We never said that."

These people rely HEAVILY on short term memory loss.

I, however, was born with a birth defect that does not allow me to forget things as easily as most.  I was born entirely lacking a "memory hole".  Which in today's political world is an awful liability to go through life with, believe me.

 

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chubbar Tristan Ludlow Wed, 04/04/2018 - 09:34 Permalink

To be more accurate, I'm pretty sure they are in the same bed as the rest of the globalists/Satanists when it comes to the NWO. They tried to roll out a psy op that didn't work because it wasn't true and enough people raised the bullshit flag over it to make them have to walk it back. Hopefully no more tricks get to this level before trump exposes them.

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Boubou chubbar Wed, 04/04/2018 - 11:03 Permalink

Don't get too complacent, US. You were more outrageous when it came to falsies

Saddam did 911 ( later " no evidence}

Saddam has wmd ready to go at a moments notice ( no he didn't)

Don't blame UK - they always do what you say - I dare say they thought you would love this move. I'm certain the dems love it to pieces

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