Russia tried to kill Sergei Skripal? I doubt it

Any smart Russian agent wouldn’t use a Russian-produced nerve agent to off someone. This isn’t James Bond.

Scott Taylor asks: if he really wanted double agent Sergei Skripal dead, why did Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured, release him to the U.K. then wait eight years before attempting to kill him? United Nations photograph by Mark Garten

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

March 21, 2018

OTTAWA—Last week, Canada joined in the chorus of countries demanding an explanation from Russia as to how a weapons-grade nerve agent was used in an apparent assassination attempt in Salisbury, in the United Kingdom. The suspected target in this attack was former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, who w...

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