"On the Death of David Kelly--Suicide? or What?"

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On The Death Of David Kelly - Suicide? Or What?

U.K. Lawmakers Want Adviser Suicide Probe
By Michael McDonough for the Associated Press.


A judge investigating the suicide of a Defense Ministry weapons adviser should also examine the British government's use of intelligence to justify war with Iraq, critics in Parliament said Monday.

Microbiologist David Kelly was the source for a disputed British Broadcasting Corp. report citing claims that Prime Minister Tony Blair's office doctored an intelligence dossier on Iraqi weapons to bolster the case for war. On Friday, Kelly's body was found near his home in central England. One of his wrists had been slashed.

Lord Hutton, one of the Law Lords who form Britain's highest court of appeal, on Monday said his inquiry into the suicide would investigate the "circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Kelly."...

Kelly's body was found three days after he testified to a parliamentary committee about his unauthorized encounter with BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan, who on May 29 quoted an anonymous source as saying officials had "sexed up" evidence about Iraqi weapons to justify war.

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U.K. Lawmakers Want Adviser Suicide Probe

By MICHAEL McDONOUGH
Associated Press Writer

LONDON (AP) -- A judge investigating the suicide of a Defense Ministry weapons adviser should also examine the British government's use of intelligence to justify war with Iraq, critics in Parliament said Monday.

Microbiologist David Kelly was the source for a disputed British Broadcasting Corp. report citing claims that Prime Minister Tony Blair's office doctored an intelligence dossier on Iraqi weapons to bolster the case for war. On Friday, Kelly's body was found near his home in central England. One of his wrists had been slashed.

Lord Hutton, one of the Law Lords who form Britain's highest court of appeal, on Monday said his inquiry into the suicide would investigate the "circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Kelly."

"It will be for me to decide, as I think right within my terms of reference, the matters which should be the subject of my investigation," Hutton said, without elaborating.

It was unclear whether Hutton intended to meet demands for a broader inquiry into the government's handling of intelligence on Iraqi weapons.

Blair comments on arms expert's death

Blair has said he is prepared to testify before Hutton's investigation, but on Monday he suggested the scope would be limited to Kelly's death.

"This is a very exceptional situation which is why we decided to hold a judicial inquiry, because of the concern that there was," he said during a trip to China. "Of course, there will be continuing debate as to whether the war was justified or not. I happen to believe it was."

Opposition Conservative Party lawmaker Oliver Letwin called for the inquiry to examine whether Blair's office exaggerated the threat posed by Iraqi weapons.

"While there certainly does need to be an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Dr. Kelly's death, there are a very large numbers of questions which all center on the issue of whether the public can trust what the government tells it and which relate to the information given to parliament and the public during the lead-up to war in Iraq," Letwin told BBC radio.

Robin Cook, a former foreign secretary, said it would be impossible for Hutton to get to the bottom of Kelly's death without wading into the wider question of the government's case for war.

Cook, a Labor lawmaker who quit the Cabinet in protest to the war, said the government should "accept the inevitable" and authorize the broader probe.

"The pity is that it did not do so a couple of months ago when it first became evident that it could not find any real weapons of mass destruction," Cook wrote in The Independent newspaper.

Hutton did not give a date for the start of his investigation, which he said he would largely conduct in public. He added that the government had pledged full cooperation.

Kelly's body was found three days after he testified to a parliamentary committee about his unauthorized encounter with BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan, who on May 29 quoted an anonymous source as saying officials had "sexed up" evidence about Iraqi weapons to justify war.

Gilligan said the officials had insisted on publishing a claim that Saddam Hussein could deploy some chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes, despite intelligence experts' doubts. The journalist later pointed to Alastair Campbell, Blair's communications director, as the key figure in rewriting the dossier. Campbell vehemently denied it.

Politicians across the ideological spectrum have accused the BBC of inaccurately reporting Kelly's comments, citing his testimony that he did not recognize the journalist's most damaging claims as his own. But Gilligan has said he did not misquote or misrepresent Kelly's remarks.

Another Labor rebel, former International Development Secretary Clare Short, accused the government of attacking the BBC to divert attention from questions about why it went to war.

"It's all part of a distraction from the real issues, how did we get to war in Iraq?" Short told BBC radio. "How come there was an imminent threat and yet there were no weapons of mass destruction?"

[Peace Patriot]

1. The recent disclosure that the "Dodgy Dossier" was indeed "dodgy"--

"sexed up," exaggerated, cherry-picked, stove-piped, twisted, deceptive--the things that David Kelly objected to, and tried to alert the public to, in May 2003, when he began whistleblowing to the BBC--is very relevant to his death and who was behind that murder (I'm about 99% that it was murder; could possibly have been an induced suicide, brought on by threats to his family--although the facts of the case just about scream "assassination").

Something else that may be relevant:

July 14, 2003: Valerie Plame outed (by Novak and the Bushites)

July 18, 2003: Kelly found dead, under highly suspicious circumstances; his office and computers are searched.

July 22, 2003: The entire Brewster-Jennings WMD counter-proliferation network of covert agents/contacts, that Valerie Plame headed, was ADDITIONALLY outed (also by Novak), putting all of their lives in great danger.

I think this time-line is just too much coincidence to ignore. Kelly murdered four days after Plame was outed; then more outings--all on the same theme (WMDs) during the "hunt" for WMDs in Iraq, after the invasion. Both Plame-B/J and Kelly were involved in WMDs in Iraq--Plame as CIA, Kelly as a UN weapons inspector. And there are a number of other connections between the two events, including the connection of NYT warmonger reporter Judith Miller, who possibly had some role in outing Plame-B/J, and was also a close friend of Kelly's, and the one to whom he wrote one of his last emails, on the day he died--in which he expressed concerned about the "many dark actors playing games."

The two investigations--of the Dodgy Dossier and Kelly's death, and the Plame outings--need to be ONE investigation, in my opinion. These events are, at the very least, related--and may be part of one nefarious scheme, not just to suppress dissent, but possibly also to proliferate WMDs--that is, to destroy the CIA's and UN weapons inspectors' capability of tracking WMDs around the world, in order to further Cheney/Bushite illicit arms deals, and, possibly, in particular, to prevent disclosure of a Bushite scheme to PLANT nukes in Iraq, to be "found" by the U.S. troops who were "hunting" for them. IF there was such a scheme, SOMEONE foiled it. No WMDs were found. And anyone who knew about it, or stumbled upon it in the course of other activities, would certainly be in great danger, if the Bush/Blair regimes found out that you knew. (Note: Kelly was interrogated at a "safe house" and threatened with the Official Secrets Act in the first week of July 2003, and was dead a week and a half later.)

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3. Was Andrew Gilligan's "original" or "prime" source a senior member of Her Majesty's Government?

I have been interested in your posts on this very important
(much underestimated, in my view) subject.

Are you aware of this potentially explosive article published
just 2 days ago on Global Research?:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8146

What is your take on this article, particularly on the
potential ramifications?

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2. What?

MURDER