\u201cVladimir Uglev says he created the Novichok that was later used against the Skripals,\u201d<\/em> says the cool baritone of the BBC\u2019s Moscow Correspondent Steve Rosenberg, who is giving the word \u2018allegedly\u2019 a rest for the day.<\/p>\n Rosenberg asks: \u201cHow certain are you that the substance which you synthesized is the one that poisoned the Skripals?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI have no doubt that it was\u2026<\/em>\u201d replied Uglev. That\u2019s case closed then.<\/p>\n Uglev claims: \u201cI have no doubt that it was A-234 that poisoned them. Judging by how pure the test sample is, this may well have been a batch I made with my own hands. It has a long shelf life, virtually no expiry date.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s not really made clear how he can be so sure of his conclusion, and there does seem to be maybe a little bit of doubt, but the report doesn\u2019t try too hard to push the scientist on it, because that\u2019s a very nice headline.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n The BBC\u2019s report is just shy of two minutes of conflicting information that sails by more or less unchallenged. Uglev says he is convinced the Salisbury attack was the work of the Russian state. He says, though, that \u201cYou\u2019ll never prove it.\u201d<\/em> Useful.<\/p>\n Uglev goes on to tell Rosenberg of that one time he accidentally spilt Novichok all over his hand. You read that right \u2013 deadly, killer, monstrous Novichok all over someone\u2019s hand. He seems fine now though. \u201cMy right hand got covered in nerve agent,\u201d <\/em>says perfectly healthy seeming Uglev, who appears to be suffering no side effects from one of the world\u2019s most deadly toxins. \u201cI put it in hydrochloric acid right away then washed it with a special alkaline solution with hydrogen peroxide. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYou could say the Skripals and I were baptized with the same Novichok,\u201d<\/em> he adds, in an almost proud manner.<\/p>\n The report comes only days after a BBC presenter chided a retired British Navy chief for questioning the evidence behind the Syria attack because of an \u201cinformation war with Russia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0How to become ‘an Assad apologist’? Just question MSM rhetoric & welcome to the club<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n During a live interview with former Navy Admiral Lord West, BBC news presenter Annita McVeigh told the ex-Navy chief truthfully stating his position and posing such alternative questions risked \u201cmuddying the waters\u201d<\/em> in the ongoing \u201cinformation war with Russia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Well, Rosenberg is on the frontline and says in the final seconds of his report: \u201cThe new dawn is confrontation<\/em>.\u201d Whatever that means.<\/p>\n Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The BBC has found a Russian scientist who says it\u2019s possible he made the very nerve agent used to attack the Skripals in Salisbury. Or did he? Maybe not, as he later adds \u2013 but possibly. But also not really. \u201cVladimir Uglev says he created the Novichok that was later used against the Skripals,\u201d says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-357500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357500","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=357500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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