Remember the days of the Presidential limo? These four wheel
drive vehicles are popping up all over North American, and Europe.
Media spins 'DC Madam' death to support suicide tale... complete with "secret discloser" revealed in Washington Post... However tapes reveal just the opposite.
They also ignored the fact that Palfrey reportedly had the goods on John McCain and Dick Cheney (among other political notables), who were among her list of clients.
Evidence Points To Murder Of DC Madam- May 3/08 "She insinuated that there is a contract out for her and I fully believe they succeeded," says Condo manager
Building Manager: DC Madam's Death Not Suicide - May 3/08
The building manager, who did not want to show his face, talked with Palfrey Monday before she left for her mother's in Tarpon Springs. He strongly believes Palfrey's death was not a suicide. [full story]
As of May 2/08 the DC Madam's website has been wiped from web archive.... This is strongly supportive of the idea that her death was part of a plot to silence her, and particularly with regard to her intentions to go public with her list of customers. Among those names she was reportedly going to name is Dick Cheney, and presidential candidate John McCain. Was this the motive for her murder?
Just a few days before her death, Palfrey herself, "Said she was preparing for federal prison. She hoped she'd get time off her sentence for good behavior. She thought she might buy a place in Germany one day," according to Baltimore Sun report, who noted that the DC Madam was "musing about her future" and had apparently come to terms with the fact that she would be returning to prison.
Secondly, Palfrey's fear that she would be "penniless" upon leaving jail does not correlate with the fact that she was in line to make millions for a best-selling tell-all memoir that was in the pipeline, not to mention Hollywood movies, documentaries, speaking tours and TV guest appearances.
Were War Critic Soldiers Killed To Send Message? Paul Watson - Sept 14/2007
The mother of a soldier who died in an apparent vehicle accident shortly after writing a New York Times op-ed critical of the war in Iraq is demanding to know the truth about what happened to her son, while another author of the piece was also shot in the head in a case that bears a sinister resemblance to the murder of Pat Tillman.
Two soldiers who wrote op-ed that contradicted Patraeus report die in strange accident, while another is shot in the head in case that bears chilling resemblance to Pat Tillman story. [full report]
Why Eliot Spitzer Was "Politically Assassinated"
The US news media failed to draw the obvious connection between the bizarre federal law enforcement investigation and leak campaign about the private life of New York Governor Spitzer and Spitzer's all out attack on the Bush administration for its collusion with predatory lenders. [Watch below video]
Hunter Thompson was
working on WTC collapse story before mysterious sudden death, warned he'd be 'suicided'
Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his
death. He sounded scared. It wasn't always easy to understand what he said,
particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he
really wanted you to understand, you did. He'd been working on a story about
the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard
evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that
flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he
thought someone was out to stop him publishing it: "They're gonna make it look
like suicide," he said. "I know how these bastards think . . ."
Hunter S. Thompson ... was indeed working on such a
story.
Now check out this February 25
Associated Press story about Thompson's death. Sounds a
lot like a professional hit with a silencer:
"I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down
and he did it. I heard the clicking of the gun," Anita Thompson told the Aspen
Daily News in Friday's editions.
She said her husband had asked her to come home from a
health club so they could work on his weekly ESPN column...
Thompson said she heard a loud, muffled noise, but
didn't know what had happened. "I was waiting for him to get back on the
phone," she said.
(Her account to Rocky Mountain News reporter Jeff Kass
is slightly different: "I did not hear any bang," she told Kass. She added
that Thompson's son, who was in the house at the time, believed that a book
had fallen when he heard the shot, according to Kass' report.)
Mack White sums up the questions well:
Thompson's family says he was not depressed, nor was he in enough to pain to
kill himself. In fact, by all reports, he was quite happy. He was talking on
the phone to his wife, getting ready to work on his column, when he decided it
would be wise to kill himself, so that he could go out (we are told) while
"still at the top of his form," even though this would mean not finishing his
column or his expose on 9/11 (potentially the most important thing he would
ever write) (?)...
This account says Thompson killed himself while
sitting in a chair on his typewriter and yet the
original account tells us that Thompson shot himself
while talking to his wife on the phone in the kitchen. Why has the story
changed and what is the significance of the word typed on the paper in light of
the fact that Thompson said he would be 'suicided' before being able to
release a major story on explosives bringing down the twin towers?
Would common sense tell you
the CIA is
murdering the best journalists?
Journalist Who Blew Whistle On CIA Drug Trade 'Commits Suicide'
Newsmax | December 13 2004
RELATED: Gary Webb Death - New Math Of Bush Reporter 'Suicides'
"Mr. Webb's friends and colleagues described him as a
devoted father and a
funny, dogged reporter who was passionate about investigative journalism."
Gary Webb joins Mark Lombardi, J.H. Hatfield, and Danny Casalaro as the
fourth 'suicide' by a researcher who had a detailed understanding of the
structure and function of the Bush crime family.
Gary Webb, 49, Former MN Reporter, Author
Investigative Journalist Wrote Controversial Series
By Jessica Portner
Mercury News (San Jose)
12-13-4
Gary Webb, a former Mercury News investigative reporter, author and
legislative staffer who ignited a firestorm with his controversial stories,
died Friday in an apparent suicide in his suburban Sacramento home. He was
49.
The Sacramento County coroner's office said that when A Better Moving
Company arrived at Mr. Webb's Carmichael home at about 8:20 a.m. Friday, a
worker discovered a note posted to the front door which read: "Please do not
enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance."
Mr. Webb, an award-winning journalist, was found dead of a gunshot wound to
the head, Sacramento County Deputy Coroner Bill Guillot said Saturday.
Mr. Webb's friends and colleagues described him as a devoted father and a
funny, dogged reporter who was passionate about investigative journalism.
As a staff writer for the Mercury News from 1989 to 1997, he exposed freeway
retrofitting problems in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and wrote stories
about the Department of Motor Vehicles' computer software fiascos.
Mr. Webb was perhaps best known for sparking a national controversy with a
1996 story that contended supporters of a CIA-backed guerrilla army in
Nicaragua helped trigger America's crack-cocaine epidemic in the 1980s. The
"Dark Alliance" series in the Mercury News came under fire by other news
organizations, and the paper's own investigation concluded the series did
not meet its standards.
Mr. Webb resigned a year and a half after the series appeared in the paper.
He then published his book, "Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras and the
Crack Cocaine Explosion."
In the past few years, Mr. Webb worked in the California Assembly Speaker's
Office of Member Services and for the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. The
committee investigated charges that Oracle received a no-bid contract from
Gov. Gray Davis. After being laid off from his legislative post last year,
Mr. Webb was hired by the Sacramento News and Review, a weekly publication.
Tom Dresslar, a spokesman for state Attorney General Bill Lockyer who has
known Mr. Webb for more than a decade, was distraught Saturday when he heard
that his friend may have taken his own life.
"He had a fierce commitment to justice, truth and cared a lot about people
who are forgotten and society tries to shove into the dark corners,"
Dresslar said. "It's a big loss for me personally and a great loss for the
journalism community."
....we can extrapolate a
conservative estimate of 17 male suicides per 100,000 people, or 0.017%. The
odds of 3 specific (all male?) biographers committing suicide would be the
cube of 17/100000, or 4.913 x 10^-12...about 5 chances in one trillion.
(That's over 300,000 times LESS likely than drawing a Royal Flush in 5 card
stud poker with no wild cards.
DNA evidence resulting in court convictions is reliable to about 1 person in
100,000 to 1 person in 1,000,000.) This calculation should be regarded as a
conservative estimate: the actual odds against such a "coincidence" would be
much greater. For example, if any of the biographers were female, the odds
would be even greater."
Past Brasscheck report on this:
July 9, 2002
Beyond Harken Energy
An exquisitely drawn diagram called "George Bush, Haken Energy, and Jackson
Stephens . c 1979-90" created in 1999 by artist Mark Lombardi shows that
through, his father and James R. Bath, George W. Bush Jr. had direct
connections to or did business some of the following:
* Sheik Salim bin Laden, relative and mentor to Osama bin Laden * Sheik
Abdullah Taha Bakhsh, whose financial projects included BCCI, S.A. and
Harken Energy * Jackson Stephens of Arkansas, patron of Bill Clinton and
other criminal enterprises
Lombardi created a number of pieces which graphically revealed well
documented but little known connections between the crooks of the world. On
the verge of a major career breakthrough (his works had just been acquired
by and shown by the Whitney), Lombardi reportedly committed suicide by
hanging himself.
Like Bush biographer J.H. Hatfield ("Favored Son) and investigative
journalist Danny Casalaro who had nearly completed a book on Bush, BCCI and
other topics, Lombardi was reportedly a 'troubled' individual who become
unbalanced by the prospect of succeeding at his life's ambition.
Never heard of him, did you? There's probably a good
reason for that.
Any statisticians out there want to calculate the odds of the three most
hard-hitting researchers of the Bush crime family leaving us as deaths by
suicide?
Police: Masked Gunman Kills Veteran Oakland Journalist - August 3/2007 OAKLAND, Calif. -- Veteran journalist Chauncey Bailey, who recently was promoted to be editor of the Oakland Post, was fatally shot in downtown Oakland just before 7:30 a.m. Thursday in what appears to be a targeted shooting, according to an Oakland police spokesman. [full story]
ROME -- Italy's
foreign minister said Tuesday that American troops killed an Italian
intelligence officer in Iraq by accident, but he disputed Washington's version
of events, demanding a thorough U.S. investigation of the shooting and that
"the culprits be punished."
Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini
told parliament that the car carrying the intelligence officer and an
ex-hostage to freedom was not speeding and was not ordered to stop by U.S.
troops at a checkpoint, contrary to what U.S. officials say.
However, he also dismissed
allegations that the Friday shooting that killed Nicola Calipari was an ambush
-- a claim made by the released hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena.
"It was an accident," Fini told
lawmakers. "This does not prevent, in fact it makes it a duty for the
government to demand that light be shed on the murky issues, that
responsibilities be pinpointed, and, where found, that the culprits be
punished."
Calipari was shot as the car
carrying him and Sgrena, who had been kidnapped Feb. 4, headed to the Baghdad
International Airport. Sgrena and another intelligence officer in the car were
wounded.
The shooting outraged Italy and
rekindled questions over its involvement in Iraq, where Premier Silvio
Berlusconi sent 3,000 troops. But the government has made it clear it is not
considering a withdrawal following Calipari's killing.
Fini said the car was traveling
at no more than 25 mph. He said a light was flashed at the car after a curve,
and gunfire -- lasting 10 or 15 seconds -- started immediately afterward,
disputing U.S. military claims that several attempts were made to stop the
vehicle.
Italy's "reconstruction of the
tragic event ... does not fully coincide with what has been communicated by
U.S. authorities," said Fini. He added that the "sequence of acts carried out
by the U.S. soldiers before the shooting" is one of the main discrepancies.
In a statement released Friday
night, the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division, which controls Baghdad, said the
vehicle was "traveling at high speeds" and "refused to stop at a checkpoint."
A U.S. patrol "attempted to warn
the driver to stop by hand and arm signals, flashing white lights, and firing
warning shots in front of the car," it said. "When the driver didn't stop, the
soldiers shot into the engine block which stopped the vehicle, killing one and
wounding two others."
Fini said the hypothesis that the
shooting was the result of an ambush, as suggested by Sgrena, is "groundless."
The journalist said the shooting
might have been intentional because the United States opposes Italy's policy
of negotiating with kidnappers. The White House has dismissed the claim as
"absurd," and two Italian prosecutors investigating the killing said there was
no evidence pointing to a possible ambush, according to news reports.
In Baghdad, a video purportedly
made by the insurgents who kidnapped Sgrena claimed the group did not receive
any ransom for her release.
The tape showed footage of Sgrena
shortly before she was freed, and the claim was made by a man off-camera
reading a statement. It was not possible to verify the authenticity of the
tape, which was dropped off anonymously at the offices of Associated Press
Television News in Baghdad.
The voice on the tape said Sgrena
was released with no ransom "even though we were offered that."
It added that "the resistance
refuses (to be paid). We hope that all journalists around the world would be
released."
A written statement shown on
screen and read by the man off-camera alleged that U.S. forces deliberately
targeted Sgrena.
"America has cheated its close
ally Italy by attempting to assassinate the Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena,"
the statement said. "The resistance has learned from its private sources in
the heart of America that the CIA decided to kill the journalist."
The Bush administration rejected
suggestions that U.S. troops deliberately opened fire on the car.
"Nothing could be further from
the truth," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.
Fini stressed that the U.S.
government is an allied country that has promised full cooperation.
On Monday, Italy bade farewell to
Calipari at a solemn funeral in a Rome basilica that drew 20,000 mourners.
Several Rome newspapers said a
lack of communication between Italian intelligence and U.S. forces may have
led to the gunfire. La Repubblica daily, citing unidentified U.S. military
sources, said Italian officials did not send notice of Sgrena's liberation or
of the type of vehicle she was being carried in.
But Fini said that Calipari, an
experienced officer who had negotiated the release of other hostages in Iraq
in the past, "made all the necessary contacts with the U.S. authorities," both
with those in charge of airport security and with the forces patrolling areas
next to the airport.
In Argentina, during the dark days, they called them "los
desaparecidos," the disappeared. On April 10, 1996, Ron Brown was buried with
full honors at Arlington National Cemetery and then joined his fellow
desaparecidos. So thoroughly has Brown disappeared from view that the only
articles I could find on Google News about the 10th anniversary of his death
were those that I had written myself.
What follows, unless new information breaks, is my last
article on the subject. In it, I attempt to find the one scenario that makes
sense of all the existing evidence. Although speculative in part, it follows
the evidence in full. There are no loose ends.
Aviation systems manager Niko Jerkuic does not report
in for work on the morning of April 3, 1996, but he has a busy day ahead of
him. He is not looking forward to it. Just a day and a half earlier, embattled
Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was ordered to fly to Jerkuic's airport in
Dubrovnik, Croatia. A trip like this in a war-torn area would typically
require weeks of security planning. Not this time.
Right after that change of plans, agents of the
Croatian intelligence services gave Jerkuic an assignment he did not feel free
to turn down. They needed to misdirect Brown's plane, and they required his
assistance.
The project is not technically difficult. Jerkuic
has seen a lot in his 46 years. He knows all about "meaconing" or "spoofing"
as it is sometimes generically known. Since the 1940s, portable
Non-Directional Radio Beacon stations have been available to military and
civilian operators and have proved especially useful in war-torn areas like
this one near the Bosnian border.
The agents with whom he is working have brought along a
gasoline driven generator, a tunable transmitter, and a temporary antenna, all
loaded into the back of a pickup truck. Together, they drive to an isolated
spot just outside of Dubrovnik and only about three or four miles
east-southeast of Kolocep Island, the site of the real Non-Directional Radio
Beacon, the beacon on which pilots are supposed to fix in order to guide their
planes into the Dubrovnik airport.
Jerkuic sets the frequency of his portable beacon at
318 kilohertz to match that of the Kolocep (KLP) beacon and encodes the KLP
Morse code identifier. He cannot power it up, however, until all the earlier
scheduled flights have landed.
Still about 100 miles away, a CT-43A, the military
version of a Boeing 737 carrying Ron Brown and 34 others, is cleared "direct
to the KLP NDB." The primary reason for Brown's trip is to broker a sweetheart
deal between Croatia and the Enron Corporation. Croatia's anti-Semitic
strongman Franjo Tudhman has agreed to the deal, one disastrous for Croatia,
in the hope that by cooperating with Enron he can ingratiate himself to the
Clinton administration and avoid indictment by the World Court for war crimes.
He has cancer. He doesn't want to die in prison.
The pilots are told they are "number one for beacon
approach." When the word comes from the Dubrovnik tower that Brown's plane has
checked in at 2:46 p.m. local time and the other planes have landed, Jerkuic
shuts down the normal NDB and activates the "rogue" NDB. The automatic
direction finder in Brown's plane now points to Jerkuic's beacon near
Dubrovnik.
At this distance, the needle shift is negligible. USAF
pilots Ashley Davis and Tim Shafer scarcely notice. "Hmmm," Davis thinks to
himself when he sees it, "the NDB's a little further east than I thought." But
given its 318-kilohertz frequency, Davis naturally assumes the radio signal to
be coming from Kolocep and flies toward it. The Dubrovnik tower has no radar.
At this stage, the radio signal is the pilots' only real guide to the world
below the clouds. In fact, Brown's itinerary was shifted to Dubrovnik only
after the weather service confirmed that the next several days would be
overcast in Croatia. These conditions were critical for the plan to work.
As the signal strengthens, Davis gradually aligns the
automatic direction finder with the posted 119-degree setting. At 2:54 pm, he
watches as the ADF swings back around to the bottom, now at a 299-degree
reading. He has passed over the beacon and will navigate from the tail of the
ADF needle.
"We're inside the locator, inbound," he radios the
tower, and the tower clears his approach and landing. At that moment, the
charts tell the pilots the airport is 12 miles straight ahead on a 119-degree
course. They will be able to see the runway in about three minutes. In fact,
however, the plane is now heading right toward St. John's Peak about eight
miles away, as the AWACs plane hovering over head will later verify.
Word of the crash comes over Jerkuic's radio. He shuts
down the temporary transmitter and reactivates the Kolocep beacon. Still, he
has no stomach for this. The agents assigned to him sense his unease, but they
have work to do, like finding the plane and making sure the person they were
assigned to kill is dead.
They make their way to St. John's Peak and up the
mountain. The bodies are scattered, and there are only a few black men among
them. They pull out the photo of Brown and start checking. Brown is not hard
to find. But what stuns the men is that he is farther from the plane than is
anyone else. He appears to have crawled there.
The leader kneels down next to Brown and turns him over
on his back. He is still not sure whether Brown is dead or not. He has no
obvious fatal wound. The leader pulls out his pistol and fires skillfully into
the laceration on the top of Brown's head. In this part of the world, no one
even blinks at the sound of gunfire.
The men look around quickly for other survivors. Tech
sergeant Shelly Kelly survived the crash in the rear jump sheet. But her back
is broken, and she lies mutely amidst the rubble. The men don't see or hear
her. They hustle back down the hill. Their colleague back at the airport has
misdirected the search in the opposite direction, out over the Adriatic, for
several hours. But the men on the hill do not want to hang around any longer
than necessary. They exit the area with their portable beacon and deep six it.
Kelly will die from that misdirection.
Three days after the crash, a memorial service is held
at the Dubrovnik airport for those killed in the crash. Just hours later, Niko
Jerkuic answers the knock on his door and greets the men who recruited him. He
is still anxious, and they can see it. U.S. Air Force investigators will start
interviewing airport personnel in two days. The Croatian agents cannot afford
to let the Air Force talk to Jerkuic.
"We hate to do this," says the one agent as he shoots
Jerkuic in the chest. They don't sweat the details as they know who will be
investigating, Miroslav Tudjman, Franjo's son, the head of Croatian
intelligence. Miroslav declares it a suicide.
Back at the Armed Force Institute in Pathology, in
Dover, Del., pathologists discover the hole in Brown's head. By order of the
White House, there is no autopsy, no forensic testing, no notification of the
Brown family. Brown is quickly embalmed, and the head X-rays are destroyed.
In November 1996, just months after Brown's death and
one week after President Clinton's re-election, Tudjman travels not to The
Hague to be tried as a war criminal but to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington
to have his cancer treated. The Croatia-Enron liaison, Zdenka Gast, later
shows up in the Croatian equivalent of People Magazine arm in arm with her
buddy Hillary Clinton at Alexis Herman's intimate wedding reception at the
White House.
By this time, Ron Brown has long since joined the
ranks of "los desaparecidos."
Uncovering the Truth about the Death of David Kelly
The Kelly Investigation Group (KIG) is a loose affiliation of
professionals and laypeople from all walks of life; it includes nine
doctors, four of them surgeons, and a QC. Medical and legal expertise
has ensured our objections to the the official line on Dr David Kelly’s
death are taken seriously by the media and public, even if the
authorities affect to ignore them. Our aim is to ensure agents of the
state do not bury the truth, along with Dr Kelly.
SUSPICIONS FROM THE START
During
2002/3 it was obvious to many that the search for WMD in Iraq was a
disingenuous ploy to secure regime change. Blair and his aides had
claimed that it would take only 45 minutes for Saddam to launch a
CBW attack on British bases, and that mobile laboratories found in
Iraq were for the purpose of making chemical/biological weapons. In
asides to journalists Dr David Kelly had shot both assertions down
in flames. So when he was found ‘dead in the woods’ three days after
being hauled before a televised government committee, many of us
were highly suspicious.
Why were Thames Valley
police labelling Dr Kelly’s death a ’suicide’ before his body had
been examined? At the age of 72, judge and law lord Brian Hutton had
never before chaired a public inquiry - so why did the prime
minister’s old friend Charles Falconer appoint this safe
establishment figure at such extraordinary speed*?
As the Hutton Inquiry got underway in August 2003, I pored over the
transcripts in an attempt to understand exactly how Dr Kelly had
died. I listed aspects of the case that did not add up, and joined
an internet forum to correspond with others working in a similar
vein. One was IT expert Garrett Cooke.
INITIAL PLEA TO THE CORONER
On 20th November 2003
Garrett and I wrote a letter to coroner Nicholas Gardiner explaining
our concern that the inquest had been subsumed into the Hutton
Inquiry. In particular, we listed the reasons why we felt a full
inquest with powers to subpoena witnesses and hear evidence under
oath should be held:
Dr
Kelly’s body appeared to have been moved - twice
the
knife, bottle of water, glasses, and cap reported beside the
body by later witnesses, were not seen by the two volunteer
searchers who first discovered it
DC
Coe was with the body at the time its position changed from
sitting to lying
DC
Coe claimed he was with one other officer yet five witnesses
said he was with two
the
primary cause of death was given as haemorrhage from an
incised wound to his left wrist, yet the amount of blood at
the scene was, according to the paramedics, extremely sparse
vomit
stains from the corners of his mouth to his ears suggested
Dr Kelly had died on his back, yet his position when found
was slumped against a tree
the
puzzling nature of the wound: the severing of a single
artery deeply embedded in the left wrist and total avoidance
of the more superficial radial artery We received no response.
‘SECTION
17A’ MISAPPLIED
Later we discovered that to avoid an inquest,
Lord Chancellor Charles Falconer had invoked Section 17a of the
Coroner’s Act of 1988, citing as his reason avoidance of duplication
(having both an inquest and an inquiry) and consequent distress to
the Kelly family.
However, Section 17a was introduced in 199 at
his instigation to avoid unnecessary repetition (and mounting costs)
in cases of multiple deaths with a single known cause, e.g. a train
crash or a ferry disaster; Dr Kelly’s was a single, high profile
death of unknown cause. In view of the political manoeuvres
preceding this high-profile death, one suspects the avoidance of
‘distress’ to the family was a very British excuse masking the real
reason: that the authorities did not want witnesses subpoenaed and
giving evidence on oath.
Had the scientist’s close female friends, Mai
Pederson, Gabriele Kraatz Wadsack and Judith Miller been subpoenaed
we might have been provided with a much more intimate portrait of
events leading up to his death.
BUILDING A MEDICAL
CASE
Faced with the Coroner’s wall of silence, I
decided to try to secure medical support. I started a blog
listing a number of KIG concerns and wrote two articles for the
internet entitled - ‘Dark
Actors at the Scene of Dr Kelly’s Death’
(October 2003) and ‘The David
Kelly Story: Turning Murder into Suicide‘
(28 November 2003.) The latter was a critique of the forensic
pathologist’s evidence to the Hutton Inquiry; for to me, his
reasoning seemed in places, quite farcical.
On 29 November 2003 Dr Searle Sennett, a
specialist in anaesthesiology from Johannesburg, responded to these
articles by e-mail as follows:
Dear Rowena
I have just read your piece at
rense.com and also the one at propaganda matrix.com and I
complement you on both of these articles but, more importantly,
on your guts and preparedness to take on the Establishment. I am
a retired specialist anaesthetist and I too, without knowing the
details of the Kelly incident that you do, considered the whole
“suicide” story to be phoney in the extreme. I am quite
satisfied that cutting the ulnar artery in the manner described
could not have been fatal.
He was clearly murdered in some other
manner and, in my opinion, there are a variety of ways in which
it could have been done.
You did mention the use of a
chloroform-like substance, of which there are many, and I can
assure you that the modern volatile anaesthetic agents are
extremely potent. They would not necessarily kill but could
certainly cause unconsciousness in less than a minute especially
if applied in high concentration. The subject could then be
asphyxiated by means of a plastic bag over his head which, in
fact, could also contain the agent. To show this technique is
distinctly feasible, I mention the incident where a potent
anaesthetic agent was introduced into the air-conditioning
system of a Moscow theatre and which incapacitated and, indeed,
killed the Chechen terrorists and some of their hostages.
Injectible muscle relaxants which paralyse all muscles within
seconds and stop the breathing of the subject receiving them.
Although normally intravenous, the injection could, in fact, be
given into any muscle or even under the hair of the scalp, or
elsewhere, so as to avoid subsequent detection. Muscle relaxants
are part of the lethal cocktail injection used in many US
prisons to carry out the death sentence.
It will be very interesting to see
what approach Lord Hutton takes concerning the inquest and
whether he, too, attempts to cover up the obvious murder.
Meanwhile, I am not surprised that Tony Blair is suffering from
a variety of stress-related disorders!
Keep up the good work.
Your sincerely Searle Sennett Johannesburg
Anomalies continued to accumulate, but things
were set alight when a friend sent me a letter published on 15
December 2003 in the Morning Star from orthopaedic and trauma
surgeon, David Halpin. Here was a surgeon, a man with intimate
knowledge of arteries, and how they behave, saying he did not see
how Dr Kelly could have died of haemorrhage from transection of a
single ulnar artery:
I write to enquire as to the status of the
coroner’s inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. I hope that it
has not been subsumed within the Hutton Inquiry.
He had been put through the psychological
mincing machine of the elite running this country and it is easy to
imagine his sense of failure as well as betrayal in both directions.
We have been told that he died from a cut wrist and that he had
non-lethal levels of an analgesic in his blood.
As a past trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, I
cannot easily accept that even the deepest cut into one wrist would
cause such exsanguinations that death resulted.
This one point was key: the primary cause of
death could not have been haemorrhage because it is virtually
impossible to bleed to death from severing a single ulnar artery.
Over the ensuing weeks we honed and refined our case to include
arguments against the second and third causes of death cited -
poisoning by co-proxamol and atherosclerosis. With Dr Sennett and
David Halpin’s continued input and support, the KIG was able to
develop a strong medical case against suicide.
Around this time we were joined by Jim Rarey,
an ex-newspaper editor from the US, who wrote seven
articlesfor the internet on a number of aspects of Dr Kelly’s death.
KELLY’S DEATH A
PHENOMENON ACCORDING TO STATISTICS
In January 2004 we were contacted by Dr Andrew
Rouse, Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Dr Yaser Adi, from the
Dept of Public Health & Epidemiology at the University of
Birmingham, who three months earlier had submitted a letter to
national newspapers:
IS DR KELLY A STATISTIC OR A PHENOMENON?
The pathologist who performed Dr Kelly’s
autopsy reported that “The features… of Dr Kelly’s wounds… were
quite typical of self-inflicted illness”. Unfortunately he did not
report that it is almost unheard of for such wounds to result in
death.
Suicide associated with wrist-slashing is
extremely rare - so rare that the Office of National Statistics does
not report wrist slashing as a specific cause of death; it groups
such deaths with other uncommon suicide methods such as belly and
abdomen stabbings and throat cuttings (see table)
This table shows that fewer than five 55-50
year old men use cutting and piercing instruments to commit suicide
annually. This statistical evidence, combined with the fact that
even after searching the medical literature and speaking to medical
and surgical colleagues we have not been able to document that wrist
slashing can lead to successful suicide, suggests that for all
practical purposes wrist slashing suicide does not exist in Britain.
Suicide and self inflicted injury by
cutting and piercing instruments amongst males in England and Wales
Data from: Twentieth Century
Mortality, Office of National Statistics, London 2003
We must
also remember that Dr Kelly was a first rate researcher. As such,
before making a suicide attempt, he would surely have done an
internet or library search into the success of various suicide
methods. He would have learnt that - since it invariably fails -
wrist slashing is not a recommended suicide method. There fore why
would Dr Kelly slash his wrist in the first place and against, all
odds, actually die? MORE DOCTORS CHALLENGE
OFFICIAL SUICIDE RULING
As the medical case challenging suicide became
stronger, we were happy to welcome in a new doctor - Chris
Burns-Cox, and two more surgeons - Martin Birnstingl and William
McQuillan. Birnstingl, a retired specialist in vascular surgery from
London responded enthusiastically to a Kelly article with “Count me
in”. He was a foundation member of the Vascular Surgical Association
of GB and Ireland and President in 1986. In private e-mails he
wrote:
Vascular surgeons deal with vessels of all
sizes but I have never seen or heard of anybody dying from a cut
wrist artery even when both ulnar and redial have been cut
Dr Kelly did not “slit his wrists” as
suggested by Professor Milroy. The evidence is that one wrist was
cut, dividing only one of the four main wrist arteries, which is
very unlikely to have been fatal.
During 2004 I made
contact with a Dr C Stephen
Frost who had written a list of 35 questions about Dr Kelly’s death
on the Independent internet forum . Working together, and liaising
with the rest of the medico-legal team, we managed to get five
letters published in the Guardian:
2. MEDICAL
EVIDENCE DOES NOT SUPPORT SUICIDE BY KELLY
12 February 2004 signed by Andrew Rouse, Searle Sennett, David
Halpin, C Stephen Frost, Peter Fletcher, Martin Birnstingl Our arguments met with a blustering emotional response from
Professor Chris Milroy in a letter entitled:
4. NEW DOUBTS
OVER KELLY
28 September 2004 signed by C Stephen Frost, David Halpin, William
McQuillan, Searle Sennett
5. QUESTIONS
OVER KELLY
28 December 2004 signed by Dr Michael Powers QC, Martin Birnstingl,
Chris Burns-Cox, C Stephen Frost, David Halpin, William McQuillan,
Andrew Rouse, John Henry Scurr, Searle Sennett
The first letter, published on 27 January to
coincide with the publication of the Hutton Report, caused a media
storm, and we were inundated with requests for radio and TV
appearances. David Halpin appeared on TV and radio in the UK, and Dr
Sennett gave newspaper interviews from his home in Johannesburg. The
Evening Standard ran a headline on the evening prior to the
publication of the Hutton Report: “Was Kelly Murdered?” But since
‘The Sun’ chose to leak the Hutton Report a day ahead of publication
- and we think this may have been a deliberate tactic - the angle of
possible murder was not pursued in the media the following day.
On 21 January 2004 five of us - David Halpin,
Dr Searle Sennett, Dr C Stephen Frost, Garrett Cooke and myself -
wrote an eleven-page letter to the Coroner setting out our concerns
in detail. He failed to respond. A month later I phoned him to ask
if he had received the letter - he said he had noted the contents
but did not think these were sufficient grounds for concern. He had
seen a police report and was satisfied everything was in order.
On 31 January highly qualified pathologist Dr
Peter Fletcher wrote a letter to the Daily Telegraph:
Sir,
As a retired pathologist, I have been
dismayed by the lack of information on the precise circumstances
of the discovery of Dr David Kelly’s body. It is claimed that
the major cause of death was blood loss from a severed wrist
artery, possibly complicated by the ingestion of an unstated
number of co-proximal tablets. An adult human body contains
about 10 pints of blood, of which about half has to be lost to
cause death. Anybody who has seen five pints of blood spurted
forcefully out of a severed artery will know that there is one
hell of a mess. The two searchers who found the body did not
even notice that Kelly had incised his wrist with a knife. The
two paramedics who arrived at the scene later apparently stated
that there was remarkably little blood around the body.
Something, somewhere is seriously
wrong. Either Dr Kelly did not die of blood loss or it occurred
at some place distant from where the body was found. It is, of
course, possible that blood was spattered everywhere, which four
witnesses failed to notice. A coroner has the power of subpoena, witnesses give testimony
under oath and a jury is usually involved. Lord Hutton was
denied these requirements for his inquiry.
Dr A Peter Fletcher, Pathologist,
Halstead, Essex
I contacted him and he too agreed to lend his support to the KIG.
I was put in touch with lawyer Michael
Shrimpton by an e-mail correspondent and he joined the cause on 29
January 2004. The following month he was invited onto the Alex Jones
Show, one of the top conspiracy radio programmes in the US.
Unfortunately the slant
he put on Kelly’s death - that it was a ‘hit’ performed by the
French DGSE - was not one shared by the rest of the KIG; although
allegedly received from intelligence sources, there was no way of
corroborating it. We were frankly uneasy with his strong bias
towards the US’s ‘neocon’ administration.
On 8 February 2004 Andrew Rouse and Yaser Adi
submitted an adapted version of their original letter entitled ‘Hutton,
Kelly and the missing Epidemiology’’to
the British Medical Journal. They called for readers to send in
details of any 55-65 year old males who had committed suicide by
slashing their wrist, during the previous 10 years.
Professor Milroy responded to their report by
saying, 'The problem with use of statistics in any single case is
that unlikely does not make it impossible.’ In his view the
combination of all three causes on the death certificate was
sufficient to account for Dr Kelly’s death. This had been the key
tactic of KIG opponents: not to examine one cause of death at a
time, but if one cause did not stand up, hop on to the next one, or
even cite all three as ’somehow’ working together -- hardly a
scientific way to proceed.
Another surgeon - John Scurr - was quoted in a Washington
Post report,
21 February 2004.
I looked up his details and found him to be a practising vascular
surgeon, also London-based. David Halpin wrote to him and he too
become a willing participant in the KIG. He has since appeared on
Channel 4 News and in a US documentary to be screened in 2007 - in
both cases explaining in his professional capacity why Dr Kelly is
highly unlikely to have bled to death from a single transected ulnar
artery. He put us on to his friend and lawyer, QC Michael Powers.
Once he had reviewed all evidence accumulated by the KIG, it was his
view that there should have been a full inquest into Dr Kelly’s
death.
On 29 February 2004 Renan Talieva, an e-mail
correspondent from the US, wrote a long and detailed article derived
from KIG discussions and her own assiduous research entitled “The Strange
Suicide of David Kelly.” CORONER SHUTS THE DOOR
Before the Coroner returned to court after
reviewing The Hutton Report, a letter
from Michael Powers was published by ‘The Times’ declaring:
Suicide cannot be presumed. Even evidence
pointing to the likelihood that Dr Kelly took his own life is not
sufficient. Suicide has to be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
After reviewing the Hutton Report, coroner
Nicholas Gardiner returned to court on 16th March 2004 to announce
his decision on whether to re-open the inquest into Dr Kelly’s
death.
The same day David Halpin was interviewed by the Today programme,
and when Gardiner declared his satisfaction with the Hutton
Inquiry‘s ruling of suicide, was asked to comment.
Around this time, practising vascular surgeon John Scurr and QC
Michael Powers made separate appearances on Channel 4 News. Mr Scurr
explained why, in his view, one cannot bleed to death from full
transection of a single ulnar artery while Michael Powers stated
that by law, suicide must be proved beyond reasonable doubt, and an
inquest was the only forum equipped to provide this degree of
rigour. In his view the medical evidence provided since the Hutton
Inquiry was sufficient to warrant a full inquest. When phoned by the
Channel 4 News team, Dr Nicholas Hunt, the forensic pathologist to
the Hutton Inquiry, said that he too would be ‘more comfortable’
with a full inquest.
On 13 May 2004 Renan Talieva answered the
Coroner’s refusal to reopen the inquest with an excellent and
thoroughly researched critique of the coroner’s actions in “The Coroner
and David Kelly”.
In response to the KIG’s medical arguments,
Professor Robert Forrest, forensic toxicologist at Sheffield
University, set up the ‘International Toxicology Advisory Group’ and
on 18 September 2004 had an article published in the BMJ entitled ‘Forensic
science in the dock’.
The Hutton Inquiry had conveyed the impression that Dr Kelly may
indeed have taken the 29 tablets missing from the blister packs in
his pocket, even though the toxicologist stated that the amount he
measured was only a third a what is normally a fatal amount. But in
this article Forrest et al listed reasons why forensic science was
unable to specify the amount of drug a person had taken prior to
their death.
“Post-mortem measurements of drug
concentration in blood have scant meaning except in the context of
medical history, the sequence and circumstances surrounding death,
and necropsy findings. The paucity of evidence based science,
coupled with the pretence that such science exists in regard to
post-mortem toxicology, leads to the abuse of process…’
In December 2004, in a 'Daily Mail' article
entitled ‘Specialists demand a new Kelly inquiry’ it was reported
that medical and legal experts in the KIG were arguing that it was
vital to have an inquest. Michael Powers called for backers to help
him fund a legal challenge against the coroner’s decision not to
reopen the inquest. It was discovered however, that without a
‘properly interested person’ to call for a judicial review of the
coroner’s decision, the KIG could not proceed.
A ‘properly interested person’ is a legal term
for what in Coroner’s Law has to be someone who stands to gain or
lose by the death in question. In practise, that could only have
been Mrs Kelly, and she made it clear in a private phone call that
she did not want the inquest re-opened because she was convinced her
husband had committed suicide. She claimed to have studied the KIG’s
doubts about the official reason for her husband’s death, but gave
few reasons for her thinking it was suicide other than her husband’s
anguish at the time. This was a blow which appeared to shut the door
on further progress. However we persevered.
PARAMEDICS UNHAPPY
WITH OFFICIAL CAUSE OF DEATH
I contacted the two paramedics who had
attended the scene of Dr Kelly’s death and put them in touch with
Antony Barnett of the Observer. They arranged to meet Barnett in the
presence of their solicitor and gave him the material for his 12
December 2004 article, ‘Kelly Death
Paramedics Query Verdict’
where their shock at the general absence of blood at the scene and
scepticism over the official cause of death was described in detail.
When the press arrived on their doorsteps, they gave a televised
press conference.
MP NORMAN BAKER BEGINS
HIS PRIVATE KELLY INVESTIGATION
it was not until MP Norman Baker came forward
this year (2006) to announce that he had resigned his seat on the
front bench to pursue a private investigation into Dr Kelly’s death
that the case was injected with new life. According to a Guardian
report:
Mr Baker said he wanted to return to the issue
because the 2003 Hutton inquiry had "blatantly failed” to get to the
bottom of matters. He vowed to question ministers and to unearth new
facts in a bid to establish the "truth" of the case.
After a few months on the case he wrote a major
article
for the ‘Mail on Sunday’ vowing to prove Dr Kelly’s death was not
suicide. His new finding was that the Coroner had irregular and
clandestine meetings with Department of Constitutional Affairs
officials and representatives of the forensic staff just prior to
the issuing of a full death certificate - before Lord Hutton had
even started to examine the details of Dr Kelly’s death. Normally a
temporary death certificate is issued pending a full inquiry. In
this case it seems, the rules were bent.
In 2006 the KIG launched a NEW DR DAVID
KELLY BLOG
and is now working in conjunction with Mr Baker. Significant
progress is being made. Watch this space….
Dr Kelly was found dead on 18th July 2003; Lord Hutton was appointed
only a few days later - on 22nd July.
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