{"id":353267,"date":"2018-03-22T00:50:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T23:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/did-putin-order-the-salisbury-hit\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T00:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T23:50:02","slug":"did-putin-order-the-salisbury-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/did-putin-order-the-salisbury-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Putin Order the Salisbury Hit?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Britain has yet to identify the assassin who tried to murder the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England.<\/p>\n

But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson knows who ordered the hit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe think it overwhelmingly likely that it was (Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s) decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the U.K.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnforgivable,\u201d says Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov of the charge, which also defies \u201ccommon sense.\u201d On Sunday, Putin echoed Peskov: \u201cIt is just sheer nonsense, complete rubbish, to think that anyone in Russia could do anything like that in the run-up to the presidential election and the World Cup. \u2026 It\u2019s simply unthinkable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putin repeated Russia\u2019s offer to assist in the investigation.<\/p>\n

But Johnson is not backing down; he is doubling down.<\/p>\n


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\u201cWe gave the Russians every opportunity to come up with an alternative hypothesis \u2026 and they haven\u2019t,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cWe actually have evidence \u2026 that Russia has not only been investigating the delivery of nerve agents for the purposes of assassination but has also been creating and stockpiling Novichok,\u201d the poison used in Salisbury.<\/p>\n

Why Russia is the prime suspect is understandable. Novichok was created by Russia\u2019s military decades ago, and Skripal, a former Russian intel officer, betrayed Russian spies to MI6.<\/p>\n

But what is missing here is the Kremlin\u2019s motive for the crime.<\/p>\n

Skripal was convicted of betraying Russian spies in 2006. He spent four years in prison and was exchanged in 2010 for Russian spies in the U.S. If Putin wanted Skripal dead as an example to all potential traitors, why didn\u2019t he execute him while…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Britain has yet to identify the assassin who tried to murder the double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England. But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson knows who ordered the hit. \u201cWe think it overwhelmingly likely that it was (Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s) decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}