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Jul 24 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
NO-ONE WAS KILLED BY #NOVICHOK IN #SALISBURY (1/6)

How can say this? Three reasons.

1. The chemical was not confirmed to be "novichok". Porton Down said it had found novichok in the #Skripal blood samples, but in court PD's expert wouldn't confirm this.
The #OPCW was careful not to explicitly identify #novichok in its analysis of the blood samples it received from the UK. It hedged its language in a strange way, merely saying it "confirmed" the UK's findings relating to the identity of the chemical. (2/6)
2. Nobody knows where the bottle of #novichok that turned up 4 months later in a flat in #Amesbury 8 miles away from #Salisbury, came from -- least of all Charlie Rowley, who supposedly found it. There's no evidence the bottle was ever in #Salisbury. (3/6)
The contents of this fake perfume bottle apparently killed Dawn Sturgess when she sprayed some on herself in the #Amesbury flat. The #OPCW's report on the bottle's contents again used hedged language "relating to the identity of the toxic chemical". (4/6) opcw.org/sites/default/…
3. Dawn is the only person to have allegedly been killed by #novichok in #Salisbury, although there's no evidence the perfume bottle was ever there. But more than 4 years since she died, her family are still waiting for a coroner's inquest to establish how she was killed. (5/6)
The Sturgess family's "patience has worn extremely thin". Their barrister, Michael Mansfield QC, said "any more lapse of time will compromise... the search for truth".

At this time, there is no evidence anyone was killed by #novichok in #Salisbury. (6/6)
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#CaroleCadwalladr, seen here with her friend, the "ex-spy" Christopher Steele, has evidently been ordered to re-heat the #Skripal #Salisbury #novichok story (which Steele was involved with) because of the "biolabs" found in #Ukraine. So let's deconstruct her #disinformation. 1/11
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This is the article we'll quickly look at, which #CaroleCadwalladr had published in The Observer today. We will see that she is the antithesis of an investigative journalist, carefully avoiding the important questions about stories like the #Skripals. 3/11 theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
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Sep 11, 2021
20 years after the 9/11 attacks, the results of my modest Twitter poll show 72% of respondents do not believe the US govt account of 9/11 at all, while 92% believe it is at least partially false. I wonder what the consensus on the least believable element of the story might be.
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Aug 20, 2021
'Flat Earth News' @Bynickdavies is a classic analysis of how propaganda works by a great investigative journalist; I was lucky to meet him once at a @NUJofficial event. His remarks about the #Skripal case are essential so I'm uploading them here (video clips in three parts). 1/3
"Big question. What has Mr #Skripal been doing with his time [in Salisbury]?" 2/3
"At the end of the day, it may well be that it was the Kremlin who tried to kill #Skripal. But if it was, we don't understand why." 3/3
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Aug 15, 2021
@dankaszeta omitted significant facts and distorted aspects of the #Skripal case in his recent talk for @edskeptics, as I will show in this thread.

Kaszeta's talk is here. It's over an hour long but I'll give ~time reference points with my remarks.

1/25
Kaszeta blocked me on Twitter long ago.

This was after I asked him how it was possible that two people as physically different as Sergei and Yulia #Skripal could be *almost simultaneously overcome* by the effects of a nerve agent they had allegedly touched hours before.

2/25
After I blocked Kaszeta back (as I do with all who block me) he tried to claim I'd blocked him first!

That's the self-described "king of nerve agent Twitter".

Ah well.

Apart from listening to his @edskeptics talk, I also looked at his book, 'Toxic'.

Let's get started.

3/25
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Apr 27, 2021
#SKRIPAL TIMELINE REDUX (thread)

I've previously made a short timeline of what we're told happened to the #Skripals on the day they were poisoned (Sunday, Mar 4 2018) using only official/MSM sources. This is an expanded version, again focused on the day of the poisoning. 1/43
Sources are [numbered] and listed at the end of the thread. I have added some sourced *comments and used brackets <where the exact point in the timeline is unclear from the sources>. 2/43
9:15 #Skripal's red BMW is seen in #Salisbury in the area of London Road [1]. It is reported Sergei and Yulia were going to visit the graves of Sergei’s wife and son: Yulia’s mother and brother. 4/43
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Aug 27, 2020
The timeline of the #Skripals' movements on the day they were poisoned (Sun, Mar 4 2018) isn't clear. Did they go to the pub and then for a meal, or the other way around? Maybe it doesn't matter.

But here's what we know according to the official account, with rough timings. 1/6
12.30pm: Two Russian agents walk up to Sergei Skripal's front door in broad daylight on a Sunday lunchtime while he & Yulia are at home, and spray it with one of the deadliest nerve agents known to man using a specially adapted perfume bottle. They then head into Salisbury... 2/6
...and are later captured on CCTV in town, shopping.

13.30: Sergei and Yulia leave the house, both touching the front door and so becoming exposed to a nerve agent said to be eight times more lethal than VX, which kills in minutes.

13.45: The Skripals are seen on CCTV... 3/6
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