{"id":355216,"date":"2018-04-04T16:29:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T15:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-uk-scientists-unable-to-identify-precise-source-of-novichok-agent\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T16:29:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T15:29:01","slug":"prison-planet-com-uk-scientists-unable-to-identify-precise-source-of-novichok-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-uk-scientists-unable-to-identify-precise-source-of-novichok-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb UK Scientists Unable to Identify \u2018Precise Source\u2019 of Novichok Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2018\/04\/03\/uk-scientists-unable-identify-precise-source-novichok-agent\/\"><strong>Breitbart<\/strong><\/a><br \/>April 4, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>AFP \u2014 The head of the British military facility analysing the Novichok nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter said Tuesday it has \u201cnot identified the precise source\u201d of the substance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Porton Down defence laboratory, told Britain\u2019s Sky News that analysts had identified it as military-grade Novichok, but they had not proved it was made in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2018\/04\/03\/uk-scientists-unable-identify-precise-source-novichok-agent\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Wednesday, April 4, 2018  at  6:57 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/uk-scientists-unable-to-identify-precise-source-of-novichok-agent.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/uk-scientists-unable-to-identify-precise-source-of-novichok-agent.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BreitbartApril 4, 2018 AFP \u2014 The head of the British military facility analysing the Novichok nerve agent used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter said Tuesday it has \u201cnot identified the precise source\u201d of the substance. Gary Aitkenhead, chief executive of the Porton Down defence laboratory, told Britain\u2019s Sky News that [&hellip;]<\/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-355216","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\/355216","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=355216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}