© Global Look Press"the package?"
The increasing desperation of government attempts to "prove" the Russians responsible for the Skripal attack has become increasingly bizarre.
They now claim GCHQ picked up from Troodos a message from Syria to Moscow that "the package has been delivered", and a further one that "two people have made their egress".Because of course, if you were sending a cryptic message back from Salisbury to Moscow,
you would naturally route it back via Syria, in the certain knowledge that all such calls from Syria are picked up from Troodos. I am sure the Russians already knew that, even before I
published it in detail five years ago.Given Russian involvement in Syria, that somebody is reporting in Syria the delivery of a package to Moscow,
would not lead any sane human being to conclude it was delivered in Salisbury.As for the phrase "two people have made their egress", presumably this was said in Russian and I cannot understand the translation at all.
Exit, egress, go out, leave to outside - there is only one Russian word to express all of these and that is phonetically from the stem "vihod", either as noun or verb.
There is no egress/exit choice in Russian.
The only possible explanation is that the person actually said "two people have left" and the British government propagandists have translated this as the weird "made their egress" to try to make it sound more sinister and more like a codeword.
Reminding me of my previous Troodos article was extremely apposite. Because the point of that article was to prove that alleged communications intercepts - proving it was the Syrian government which was responsible for certain chemical weapons strikes in Syria - were not genuine. I am very skeptical indeed about the claims being made today.
Comment: Troodos is a RAF relay station in the Republic of Cyprus.
According to
RT:
A mysterious message saying the "package has been delivered," allegedly intercepted by the RAF then relayed to the Sunday Express by even more mysterious "insiders," has exposed desperation in the UK media's Skripal reporting. ... Insiders who have apparently seen the intelligence and confirmed that there were two messages intercepted by RAF analysts in southern Cyprus on March 4 - the very same day that Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked in Salisbury.
Nowhere is it explained why a potentially innocuous message from Syria relates to the Skripal poisoning in Salisbury, or why alleged Russian spies would continue to use phrases from early John le Carrรฉ novels. However, despite the vagueness of the reports, much of the British press have picked up the story unquestioningly.
The message was reportedly intercepted and included in an intelligence package shown to Britain's allies before scores of Russian diplomats were ousted from more than a dozen countries, according to the Sunday Express.
It's not known whether allies were given further details, because the "package" could be literally anything - groceries, a birthday present, or even a dangerous dosage of Novichok, supposedly one of the world's most dangerous chemical weapons. (Even though the Skripals are both on the mend, conscious, and stable).
On seeing the communication, apparently an RAF flight lieutenant remembered another message that had been intercepted and discounted on the previous day. Predictably, the UK Ministry of Defence cannot confirm claims as they are "linked to an ongoing investigation."
The only explanation is the Skripal incident has become a 'free-for-all' as far as interpretation of both fact and fiction...and the twain is still undetermined.
Comment: Troodos is a RAF relay station in the Republic of Cyprus.
According to RT: The only explanation is the Skripal incident has become a 'free-for-all' as far as interpretation of both fact and fiction...and the twain is still undetermined.