International Poison

By Tom Haughey

While I was in London during the first two weeks of March, Russian expats were being strangled or poisoned. Putin critic 68-year-old Nikolai Glushkov was strangled in his South London flat. On March 4, Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found delirious on a bench in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and were rushed to the hospital where they remain in critical condition. Detective Sargent Nick Bailey was first on the scene and was also overcome by the agent that poisoned those two. He is in serious but stable condition at the hospital. The nerve agent, Novichok, was developed in Russia.
Russian television, meanwhile, has been joking about the incident, pointing to the inability of the UK’s law enforcement to protect Russian traitors on UK soil, and claiming that a number of other countries, including the U.S., are likely sources for the toxin.

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