“After serving four years in prison in Russia for spying for Britain’s espionage service, MI6, he [Skripal] was one of four Russian double agents exchanged for 10 Russian sleeper agents expelled from the United States… At the time, Putin, a former KGB officer, issued televised threats against those who had betrayed Russia. ‘Traitors will kick the bucket. Trust me…’… In 2006, a new Russian law was adopted formally permitting extra-judicial killings abroad of people Russian authorities deemed extremist or terrorists, allowing the Russian president alone to order a killing.” (Dettmer-VOA)

Notice that it’s not just the former spy who was poisoned, but his daughter, as well. That’s one reason the Russian mafia is so feared and probably the biggest way they buy political and other silence. Even those brave enough to die don’t necessarily believe that it’s right to make their families die with them.

Why now for…