Rory » Fri May 04, 2018 7:57 pm wrote:http://tass.com/politics/1002877/amp?__twitter_impression=true
The OPCW chief said earlier in an interview with the New York Times that "about 50 to 100 grams of a liquid nerve agent was used in the March 4 attack on the former Russian spy Sergei V. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia."
OPCW wrote:In response to questions from the media, the OPCW Spokesperson stated that the OPCW would not be able to estimate or determine the amount of the nerve agent that was used in Salisbury on 4 March 2018. The quantity should probably be characterised in milligrams.
OPCWOPCW Director-General Uzumcu also, in that NYT interview, perpetuated the myth that the term 'Novichok' is of Russian origin, rather than a label applied by people outside of Russia:
NYT wrote:He said he had taken steps to add the nerve agent, one of a series of chemicals created under the code name novichok
He then uses his 'misunderstanding' regarding the quantity used as the basis for his argument that it couldn't have been produced by 'Western laboratories':
NYT wrote:Uzumcu said that if Western laboratories had produced novichok for research purposes, or to develop an antidote, they would have created a smaller quantity than what was used in the March 4 attack.
That being
NYT wrote: the 5 to 10 grams needed for research purposes, or to develop an antidote, he said.
Or does he mean 'milligrams', here? Uzumcu is a 'career diplomat', not a chemist...
NYT have memory-holed their
original article - (link now takes you to a correction piece) - but it was syndicated
elsewhere in the original form.
No news here, just the usual bullshit propaganda.