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"Now, Britons are taking in the disquieting information that a Novichok nerve agent, a weapon invented for use against NATO troops, was released in the quiet town of Salisbury, its target a former Russian spy named Sergei V. Skripal. Mr. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, collapsed onto a bench in a catatonic state on March 4, and remain hospitalized, in critical condition.
Exposure, either by inhalation or through the skin, leads to muscle spasms, secretion of fluid into the lungs and organ failure, sometimes accompanied by foaming at the mouth. But if the victim has already died, experts said, the police could easily mistake the cause of death for a simple heart attack.
“It’s entirely likely that we have seen someone expire from this and not realized it,” said Daniel M. Gerstein, a former senior official at the United States Department of Homeland Security who is now at the RAND Corporation. “We realized in this case because they were found unresponsive on a park bench. Had it been a higher dose, maybe they would have died and we would have thought it was natural causes.”
A father and daughter dying of a heat attack at the same time and place is natural?
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Did he realy work for Homeland Security ?
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Re: Did he realy work for Homeland Security ?
The danger of clever, but obscure, thread titles. Being discussed here.
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Re: Did he realy work for Homeland Security ?
I suspect you're reading too much into the word "they" in this case, and he was actually speaking in general terms rather than just this specific case. The question of whether a lethal dose of nerve agent might be misdiagnosed as death due to natural causes if the circumstances weren't so obviously suspicious seems like a legitimate concern, even if it was articulated poorly.
I know I'd be very curious about postmortem toxicology results if, say, Robert Mueller had a fatal heart attack or stroke any time soon.
I know I'd be very curious about postmortem toxicology results if, say, Robert Mueller had a fatal heart attack or stroke any time soon.
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Re: Did he realy work for Homeland Security ?
Yep. "They" in the bolded OP seems to want to reach back to the hypothetical "someone" who might have expired from this without our realizing it.
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When you see hoofprints, you think ‘horses’, not ‘zebras’.
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Hmm.. It looks like Homeland Security is trying new avenues of revenue! Please support them and buy one of everything.
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