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LONDON (AP) \u2014 British police asked the military on Friday to help investigate the nerve-agent poisoning of a former spy, as Russia\u2019s foreign minister expressed resentment at suggestions Moscow was behind the attack.<\/p>\n
The Metropolitan Police force said counterterrorism detectives had asked for military help \u201cto remove a number of vehicles and objects from the scene\u201d of Sunday\u2019s attack in the city of Salisbury.<\/p>\n
Police said troops were being called in because \u201cthey have the necessary capability and expertise\u201d and health advice remains the same – there is no broader risk to the public.<\/p>\n
British investigators are scrambling to trace the nerve agent that has left former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in critical condition.<\/p>\n
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow was \u201cready to consider\u201d lending a hand, \u201cwhether it\u2019s poisoning of some British subjects, whether it\u2019s rumors about interference in the U.S. election campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut in order to conduct such cases, it is necessary not to immediately run out on TV screens with unfounded allegations,\u201d Lavrov was quoted as saying by Russian state news agency Tass in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n
Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer, was convicted in 2006 of spying for Britain and released in 2010 as part of a spy swap.<\/p>\n
He had been living quietly in Salisbury, where he and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench Sunday. They are in critical but stable condition in a hospital in the city, 90 miles (140 kilometers) southwest of London.<\/p>\n
A police officer who treated them at the scene is in serious condition, and a total of 21 people have received medical treatment.<\/p>\n
The U.K. has vowed to take strong action against whoever was responsible for the \u201cbrazen and reckless\u201d attack.<\/p>\n
British authorities say it\u2019s too soon to lay blame, but suspicions have fallen on Russia.<\/p>\n
Those branded enemies of the Russian state have sometimes died mysteriously abroad, and the Skripal case echoes the death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian agent who was poisoned in London in 2006 with radioactive polonium-210.<\/p>\n
A British public inquiry found that Russia was responsible for Litvinenko\u2019s killing, and that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved it.<\/p>\n
A former head of London\u2019s Metropolitan Police called Friday for new investigations into the deaths of 14 Russians in the U.K. amid suggestions they were targeted by the Russian state.<\/p>\n
Former Commissioner Ian Blair, who led the London force when Litvinenko was fatally poisoned, told the BBC it is important to find out \u201cwhether there is some pattern here.\u201d<\/p>\n
A BuzzFeed News investigation claimed U.S. spy agencies have linked 14 deaths to Russia, but U.K. police shut down the cases.<\/p>\n
Russian media have mocked suggestions of Moscow involvement in the attack – but also noted that those who betray Russian seem to come to a bad end.<\/p>\n
One anchorman on a Russian state television news show began a report on Skripal\u2019s poisoning with a warning to anyone considering becoming a double agent.<\/p>\n
Channel One anchorman Kirill Kleimenov said in the Wednesday broadcast that he didn\u2019t wish death or suffering on anyone but wanted those \u201cwho dream of such a career\u201d to know that traitors rarely live long.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlcoholism, drug addiction, stress and depression are inevitable professional illnesses of a traitor resulting in heart attacks and even suicide,\u201d Kleimenov said.<\/p>\n
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Jim Heintz in Moscow contributed to this story.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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