Echoing findings by UK government scientist Gary Aitkenhead, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Thursday that its investigators had "Confirmed the findings of the UK relating to the identity of the toxic chemical that was used in Salisbury".
Effectively the lab confirmed that the military grade nerve agent used to poison Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal during an attack which reportedly took place at a public shopping center was Novichok - a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union, even if the OPCW did not explicitly name it.
Like the scientists at Porton Down, the OPCW was unable to identify the origins of the nerve agent, per the Associated Press.
This despite the UK Foreign Office backpedaling in the weeks after the escalation, going so far as to deny that it had ever claimed that the nerve agent used on the Skripals had come from Russia - and even deleting a tweet where it claimed the Novichok nerve agent had been produced in Russia.
The international chemical weapons watchdog has confirmed Britain's finding that a former spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent.
The report Thursday says Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons investigators "Confirm the findings of the United Kingdom relating to the identity of the toxic chemical that was used in Salisbury."
According to Sky News, tests carried out by experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons showed the ner ve agent was found in environmental samples collected in Salisbury.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-12/chemical-weapons-watchdog-couldnt-identify-source-nerve-agent-used-skripal-attack
Effectively the lab confirmed that the military grade nerve agent used to poison Sergei Skripal and Yulia Skripal during an attack which reportedly took place at a public shopping center was Novichok - a nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union, even if the OPCW did not explicitly name it.
Like the scientists at Porton Down, the OPCW was unable to identify the origins of the nerve agent, per the Associated Press.
This despite the UK Foreign Office backpedaling in the weeks after the escalation, going so far as to deny that it had ever claimed that the nerve agent used on the Skripals had come from Russia - and even deleting a tweet where it claimed the Novichok nerve agent had been produced in Russia.
The international chemical weapons watchdog has confirmed Britain's finding that a former spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent.
The report Thursday says Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons investigators "Confirm the findings of the United Kingdom relating to the identity of the toxic chemical that was used in Salisbury."
According to Sky News, tests carried out by experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons showed the ner ve agent was found in environmental samples collected in Salisbury.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-12/chemical-weapons-watchdog-couldnt-identify-source-nerve-agent-used-skripal-attack
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