{"id":186911,"date":"2019-04-18T06:52:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T06:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186911"},"modified":"2019-04-20T05:34:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T05:34:23","slug":"the-official-skripal-story-is-a-dead-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186911","title":{"rendered":"The Official Skripal Story is a Dead Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig Murray \u2013 craigmurray.org April 17, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Biological warfare team in the aftermath of the Skripal’s poisoning. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the striking things about the official Skripal story is the way its more wildly improbable aspects have been released to the mainstream media over a long period, so as to manage their impact. So, for example, police acknowledgement that the perfume bottle Charlie Rowley found was sealed and could not have been the container used on the Skripals is comparatively recent, and it took nine months for us to learn that, by a truly wonderful coincidence, the first person to find the Skripals ill on the bench was the Chief Nurse of the British Army.<\/span><\/p>\n

I covered these points in full in my article<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>on the ten points I do not believe in the official story \u2013 an article which nobody has sought to refute, other than to yell \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d, as though that was an argument.<\/span><\/p>\n

But today we learn from the Guardian<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (quoting the New York Times) that Donald Trump was only convinced to back the UK government line after being shown photos of dead ducks and hospitalised children by CIA director Gina Haspel.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is said to have presented the expulsion of 60 accredited Russian diplomats \u2013 the course eventually taken \u2013 as the \u201cstrong option\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

She also showed the president pictures of young children who had been hospitalised as a result of the Salisbury attack, as well as photographs of ducks that had been killed because of the carelessness in handling the deadly nerve agent on the part of the two Russian intelligence operatives<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>alleged to have carried out the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMr Trump fixated on the pictures of the sickened children and the dead ducks. At the end of the briefing, he embraced the strong option,\u201d the report said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem is that, there were no hospitalised children. No children have been reported as becoming ill following their duck feeding with the Skripals. We have heard from one of the parents that they were shown by the police extremely clear CCTV footage of the duck feeding, which has never been made public. Surely if the child had been hospitalised, the parent would have been mentioned it?<\/span>\"\"<\/p>\n

Dr Stephen Davies of Salisbury Hospital\u2019s letter of 16 March 2018 to the Times has been explained away as poorly written or edited, in relation to the cause of the Skripals\u2019 illness. But be that as it may, one thing the doctor\u2019s letter does without any shadow of a doubt, is rule out the possibility of hospitalised children.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were no hospitalised children.<\/span><\/p>\n

We also know that the duck feeding was the time that \u201cBoshirov and Petrov\u201d were physically closest to the Skripals. But this is the first time there has ever been any mention of any harm to the ducks. Dead ducks would have been noticed by the public.<\/span><\/p>\n

Possibly the Guardian and New York Times are inventing utter drivel, as in the Manafort meeting Assange story. That would in itself be worrying. The other possibility is that the security services produced fake photographs of hospitalised children and slaughtered some ducks, in order to convince Donald Trump. If the latter explanation is true, then the entire Skripal saga looks more and more staged.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two new elements that appear in the Skripal story \u2013 poisoned ducks and hospitalised children — reveal just how improbable the official story is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sergei-skripal-poisoning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186911"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186933,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186911\/revisions\/186933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}