Former Russian double agent seriously ill in Salisbury.

Yup, that was already revealed in the previous post above too.

Seems that GRU are incredibly sloppy, so much for the sentiment of some earlier in this thread along the lines of:

"false flag, if Russia really wanted to kill him he'd be dead" etc...

Passport numbers in the same batch not just for the gay couple who are into Cathedrals but also for other GRU personnel involved in the Montenegro debacle - bit embarrassing for Russia.
 
Bahaha Russia look more and more ridiculous by the day. Putin really shouldn't have got involved in the defence of the two men, if it turns out they ARE ex forces with links to the Kremlin then any sort of plausible deniability goes out the window .
 
Marmot said:
Bahaha Russia look more and more ridiculous by the day. Putin really shouldn't have got involved in the defence of the two men, if it turns out they ARE ex forces with links to the Kremlin then any sort of plausible deniability goes out the window .
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You assume Putin cares about plausible deniability - they'll just stir up more noise and deflection.
 
Marmot said:
Bahaha Russia look more and more ridiculous by the day. Putin really shouldn't have got involved in the defence of the two men, if it turns out they ARE ex forces with links to the Kremlin then any sort of plausible deniability goes out the window .
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Does he even care? Just deny everything, no one is going to go to war over it.
 
Hilarious, so he's supposed to be a full Colonel???? WTF??? Why is he even on operations once he's reached that rank?

Regardless, so much for all the claims earlier in the thread along the lines of: "if Russia wanted to kill Skripal we'd not even know about it". They've been shown up to be rather inept here...

Of course it would be rather easy to disprove the claims if this open source investigative site has got it wrong, just bring out the real Colonel for the cameras.
 
dowie said:
Hilarious, so he's supposed to be a full Colonel???? WTF??? Why is he even on operations once he's reached that rank?
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I assume it is a bit different being a GRU officer compared to rank and file army, etc. I think it is the same in the intelligence services, etc. here that many rise to quite high rank while still active as an operative.
 
Rroff said:
I assume it is a bit different being a GRU officer compared to rank and file army, etc. I think it is the same in the intelligence services, etc. here that many rise to quite high rank while still active as an operative.
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GRU is a military unit, in the UK you'd find a full Colonel in appointments like chief of staff of a division, or deputy commander of a brigade.

The various Int corps battalions are commanded by Lt Cols.
 
dowie said:
GRU is a military unit, in the UK you'd find a full Colonel in appointments like chief of staff of a division, or deputy commander of a brigade.

The various Int corps battalions are commanded by Lt Cols.
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They said he was a special forces colonel.
 
dowie said:
Hilarious, so he's supposed to be a full Colonel???? WTF??? Why is he even on operations once he's reached that rank?
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Plot twist, he was one of the Soviet officers that Skripal ratted out to MI5 for cash, the whole thing was a rogue revenge operation by guys Skripal screwed over and Putin's just trying to cover up his own incompetence/negligence xD

NB: Tongue in cheek.


JBuk said:
Put them in the face off machine!
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Do you have quarters? Because it costs 50 cents.
 
dowie said:
Seems that GRU are incredibly sloppy, so much for the sentiment of some earlier in this thread along the lines of:

"false flag, if Russia really wanted to kill him he'd be dead" etc...
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Russia don't care if it was sloppy. Putin won't even care that they got "caught" so to speak. Nor does he care that the accused names have been revealed.

This was nothing more than a statement from Putin to say to the UK and the west: Look what I can do. I can put people into your country and attempt assassinations with total impunity.
 
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Marmot said:
Bahaha Russia look more and more ridiculous by the day. Putin really shouldn't have got involved in the defence of the two men, if it turns out they ARE ex forces with links to the Kremlin then any sort of plausible deniability goes out the window .
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As per my post above. Russia don't look ridiculous. They KNOW what they are doing and saying is ridiculous! They simply don't care. It was nothing more than a brazen way of showing the west that this is what they can do, AND, they can get away with it too. Just like they did with Litvinenko some years ago.
 
Craig Murray has a piece up that gives a probability of (using industry standard software) at 2.8% likely of it being the same person.

He also uses Eliot "works in a shop" Higgins own tweets from earlier in 2017 saying facial recognition is "harder than some people think".

Another desperate attempt from Bellingrat to do some "investigative journalism".

I'll say I'm not convinced one iota by the Bellingcat piece. The men are similar, but even my first thought was that isn't him.

One thing I notice on closer inspection is:
Mole above his left eye. Appears on pics 2 &3 very clearly. Not there on pic 1.

Ear shape pic 1 vs pic 2 &3 is wrong (flat vs arced). Eyes are further apart on pic 1 than both pic 2&3.

Where is Colonel Evan? We already have Chepiga Dis shilling for WW3 over evidence from a former shop worker lol
 
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