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Re:Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at Lond... by XorNot on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @05:05PM (#16701925)
An assassination attempt is made with a nerve gas only Russia is known to have been developing and suddenly we should give them the benefit of the doubt? Seriously? After they did the exact same thing already, in the same country, with polonium?
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Re:Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at Lond... by dleslie on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @05:41PM (#16702243)
It's sort of a weird story, on the one hand it's apparently not hard to make and it's been known about for some time[0], and it has a clearly Russian name with a clearly Russian pedigree. It makes for a poor assassination agent if you care about being traced.

On the other hand, having a clearly Russian pedigree may be precisely the reason it was used; either to send a strong message to would-be dissenters in the Russian intelligence sphere or to make it look like a Russian hit.

Spooks doing what spooks do, it seems.

0: https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/556148/

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Re:Ecuador cuts off Julian Assange's internet access at Lond... by jacquesm on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @05:44PM (#16702268)
The same thing happened with the radioactive tea. The perpetrators must have known it would be traced back to the source, and that is exactly why you use a substance like that, the murder is a byproduct of sending a message that will be heard loud-and-clear by the people you are targeting.
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