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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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