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by hugh4life 3020 days ago
Mossad could easily be as responsible and they have motive with Syria.
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How does Mossad have the facilities and knowledge to produce Novichok? It's not something you can order from Amazon.
> It's not something you can order from Amazon.

No, but apparently you can order it from a chemist. A russian banker and his secretary were killed in 1995 by the banker's business partner. With that said, blaming Mossad for this makes zero sense.

Vil Mirzayanov(who lives in the US) apparently wrote the forumula for Novichok in a book available on Amazon.

https://twitter.com/mashant/status/973930996918865920

"It's the Russians... unless it's anybody else who got the formula from my book (Kindle edition is only $8 on Amazon), Novichok whistle-blower Mirzayanov tells AFP"

"The only other possibility, he said, would be that someone used the formulas in his book to make such a weapon."

(I personally find it a bit difficult to believe they would actually put the formula for dangerous nerve agent in a book but that's what's reported)

> I personally find it a bit difficult to believe they would actually put the formula for dangerous nerve agent in a book

As the author explained, knowing what the chemical is doesn't help you much with making it, and such information was already available for Sarin and others. Producing these chemicals is a difficult engineering challenge, and incredibly dangerous. Even in the professional labs, people died trying to produce them.

>I personally find it a bit difficult to believe

Quite the skeptic aren’t you.