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TexasTowelie

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Thu Oct 5, 2017, 02:20 AM Oct 2017

Chemist says VX traces found on both suspects in Kim murder

Source: AP

SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AP) — A government chemist testified Thursday he found traces of the banned VX nerve agent on the two women who are standing trial in Malaysia on charges of murdering the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader.

The testimony was the first evidence linking VX to Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong of Vietnam, who are accused of smeared the nerve agent on Kim Jong Nam's face in a brazen assassination inside a crowded airport terminal in Kuala Lumpur on Feb. 13.

Raja Subramaniam, who heads the government's Center of Chemical Weapon Analysis, said he found VX in its pure form and VX precursors on Huong's white jumper and found a degraded product of VX on cuts of Huong's fingernails.

Huong was seen on airport surveillance videos wearing a white jumper emblazoned with the big, black letters, "LOL," the acronym for "laughing out loud."

Read more: http://www.valleymorningstar.com/news/world/article_c075ca58-9aee-5e50-a54d-6d4aa5843b5a.html

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Chemist says VX traces found on both suspects in Kim murder (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2017 OP
It seems obvious both women were set up obamanut2012 Oct 2017 #1
The murder embarrassed the Indonesian government AngryAmish Oct 2017 #2
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