Poisoning of Sergei Skripal

Who is Sergei Skripal?

 * Wikipedia: Sergei Skripal (After arrest in 2006, after spy exchange in 2010)
 * Salisbury, scratchcards and sausage: the quiet life of Sergei Skripal - The Guardian, March 6, 2018
 * ''Quite why the Skripals arrived in Salisbury is not clear. It may be that he liked the idea of the quiet country life. But Salisbury and the surrounding areas are very much army territory and that may have helped him feel more secure.
 * Police officer in hospital after Russian spy poison plot is named - Daily Mail, March 8, 2018
 * ''Was poisoning in retaliation to Trump 'dirty dossier'? Kremlin double agent 'was close to consultant employed by former MI6 spy Christopher Steele'
 * Poisoned Russian spy Sergei Skripal was close to consultant who was linked to the Trump dossier - The Telegraph, March 7, 2018 (mirror)
 * ''The Telegraph understands that Col Skripal moved to Salisbury in 2010 in a spy swap and became close to a security consultant employed by Christopher Steele, who compiled the Trump dossier. The British security consultant, according to a LinkedIn social network account that was removed from the internet in the past few days, is also based in Salisbury. On the same LinkedIn account, the man listed consultancy work with Orbis Business Intelligence, according to reports. Orbis is run by Mr Steele, a former MI6 agent, who compiled the notorious dossier on President Trump that detailed his allegedly corrupt dealings with Vladimir Putin.

The attack

 * Sergei Skripal & daughter were exposed to nerve agent, police confirm - RT, March 7, 2018 (+ video)

Witnesses

 * A man describes condition of the victims when he found them -video -Guardian News, March 8, 2018

Sarin?

 * "It was Sarin" Hamish DeBretton Gordon 'confirms' - The Sun, March 7, 2018
 * ''It comes as a policeman who raced to help stricken ex-spy Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia is in a coma. It is feared he either breathed in the toxic nerve agent used to poison the pair or brushed against it on their skin or clothing. The officer was the first to respond to calls for help after passers-by spotted Skripal, 66, and Yulia, 33, slumped on a bench in Salisbury, Wilts.
 * ''The UK’s senior anti-terror police chief yesterday said tests revealed a nerve agent had been used to poison the pair, who are also in comas.
 * Coma, unclear, may stand for medically induced coma, e.g. when somebody is sedated and placed on a ventilator machine in intensive care unit (and The Sun is a tabloid...)--Resup (talk) 14:11, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Russian spy: Attack was 'brazen and reckless', says Amber Rudd - BBC, March 8, 2018
 * ''The source familiar with the investigation told the BBC it was likely to be rarer than the Sarin gas thought to have been used in Syria and in an attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. And it was said not to be VX - the nerve agent used to kill the half brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Malaysia last year.

Porton Down

 * ''See also British involvement in Syria


 * Charles Shoebridge @ShoebridgeC on Twitter, March 8, 2018
 * ''Interestingly, just 10km from the Salisbury site of the now confirmed nerve agent attack on mi6 agent #Skripal is #PortonDown, long the home of the UK’s chemical weapons program, and where the BBC recently confirmed that nerve agents are still being made
 * Inside Britain's secret weapons research facility - Michael Mosley, BBC, June 28, 2016

Putin did it!

 * Sergei Skripal: does revenge for treason lie behind harm to ex-spy? - Luke Harding, The Guardian, March 6, 2018
 * Putin will have broken a huge rule of the spy game if he was behind the poisoning of ex-agent Sergei Skripal - Business Insider, March 8, 2018

... not
Not the most favorite source in the world but similar to Business Insider, above
 * Луговой прокомментировал сообщения об отравлении Скрипаля в Великобритании (Lugovoy commented on reports about the poisoning of Scripal in the UK)-Interfax, March 6, 2018
 * ''There are certain unwritten rules between the special services, mostly observed. Skripal was convicted of state treason, but in 2010 he was pardoned by the Russian president and extradited to Britain in exchange for our allegedly exposed agents. So, there were corresponding agreements between the special services. Pursue the already pardoned - absurdity