whom I notice was one of the reporters named in the lawsuit, above. In fact, Kelly was Miller's chief quoted source for her book "Germs"--about bio-warfare, published soon after 9/11. And it was to Miller that David Kelly wrote one of his last emails, on the day he died--the email in which he expressed concern about "the many dark actors playing games."
The Anthrax plot is a possible motive for Kelly's murder that I had never thought of--and I don't think anyone else has either--that what he knew that got him killed was not about Iraq WMDs, but about anthrax.
The reasons that it seemed to do with Iraq are many. Kelly was a UN weapons inspector in Iraq. His whistle-blowing to the BBC was about Iraq. And he booked plane tickets to go to Iraq on the day he died. He was intending to participate in the U.S. invasion force weapons inspections.
What he said to the BBC--that the pre-war intel had been exaggerated ("sexed up," as the reporter put it)--didn't seem all that earthshaking. Lots of people knew that--the UN inspectors, Scott Ritter, the French, the Germans, and billions of ordinary citizens, including most Americans (55% to 60% of whom opposed the invasion of Iraq--Feb 03, all polls). Exaggerated intel--lies, psyops, disinformation--can all be drowned in the corporate 'news' river of forgetfulness, which was particularly toxic at that time. Could "exaggerated intel" have been reason to murder an insider white guy? On July 7, 2003, Tony Blair was informed that Kelly "could say some uncomfortable things" (not had said; "could say.") Also, Kelly said something to an acquaintance after he was interrogated at a "safe house" that also indicated that he knew something far more threatening than exaggerated intel. He said he had told his bosses that he wasn't about to "reveal any state secrets." So the question was: What "state secrets" did he know that could have gotten him killed?
My guess was that the Bushites intended to
plant nukes in Iraq, to be 'found' by the U.S. troops--as part 2 of the Iraq/Niger nuke forgeries scheme. That would explain a number of things, including why somebody in the Bush Junta was so insistent on Bush asserting the Iraq/Niger nuke claim, which had been discredited. It was taken out of Bush's speeches twice, and somehow found its way back in. (He ultimately had to admit the error--probably the only time he has ever done so.) So, it looks very like a set up--Bush makes the claim; the troops then "find" the nukes. (And, never forget, Judith Miller was accompanying those troops, anxious for the scoop of a lifetime, which she had prepped with her lies in the NYT).
And for another, it was the sort of ethical line that David Kelly might have balked at crossing. Signing off on "exaggerated intel" was one thing; planting weapons was quite another. Kelly was a top scientist, praised by all--and legendary as a tough weapons inspector. He passionately believed in his work of WMD counter-proliferation. Something caused him to turn against the Iraq War, in late spring 2003, when he began whistleblowing. His discovery of a scheme to plant the weapons answers many questions about his motivation, his character and the events surrounding his death. In addition, he was murdered four days after Valerie Plame was outed--and her outing was connected to Iraq. Kelly's office and computers were searched. And then four days after his murder, Novak additionally outed the entire Brewster-Jennings WMD counter-proliferation network (putting all of its agents/contacts at risk of getting killed). Everything pointed to Iraq--as the focus of the "state secrets" that the Bushites/Blairites feared would be disclosed by this whistleblower.
However, the motive for his murder
could have been something else. And knowledge about the Anthrax plot certainly qualifies as a motive for murder. That he was murdered I have almost no doubt. The only other possibility is pressured suicide--much like Ivins--but Kelly was a straightup kind of guy--well liked, highly respected, with a loving family. There is plenty of evidence that he felt forward-looking on 7/17/03 (the day he was murdered)--including, for instance, emails about his daughter's upcoming wedding. And the manner of his death is just plain absurd, for a man of science. It makes no sense at all, in any way. (Goes out for a walk, cheerfully hails a neighbor, sits down under a tree, cuts one wrist--the ulnar artery--with a dull knife, and bleeds to death all night, under a tree near his home.) (Among other things, the ulnar artery is deep--you generally can't bleed to death from cutting it, because it closes up.) Further, the Blairites had just released him from a "safe house" interrogation and had sweated his testimony to a Parliament defense committee, after weeks of huge controversy and apparent panic in the Blair government. (He didn't say any more "uncomfortable things.") And they sent him home without surveillance? Not credible. So, where were his watchers, as he bled to death all night under a tree?
And I've barely grazed the absurdities and black holes in the official 'investigation.' I think he was outright murderered, and I think he knew something that was very dangerous to the Bushites/Blairites.
This latest bioweapons expert to "commit suicide"--Ivins, in the Anthrax case--prompts me to start thinking: could Kelly's death also be connected to the Anthrax plot?
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Here is another Porton Down chem/bio warfare scientist--killed in a small plane crash in 2004. Research should be done on any connection to Kelly, and, of course, to Ivins, Ft. Dietrich and the corporations involved. Paul Norman sounds rather like Kelly, in his passion for WMD counter-proliferation. (
A lot of biochemists have died, many under suspicious circumstances, over the last 5-6 years. This site contains a list of them.)
http://www.stevequayle.com/dead_scientists/UpdatedDeadScientists.html"#58:
Dr. Paul Norman, age 52. Died: June 27, 2004. From Salisbury Wiltshire. Killed when the single-engine Cessna 206 he was piloting crashed in Devon.
Expert in chemical and biological weapons. He traveled the world lecturing on defending against the scourge of weapons of mass destruction. He was married with a 14-year-old son and a 20-year-old daughter, and was the
chief scientist for chemical and biological defense at the Ministry of Defense's laboratory at
Porton Down, Wiltshire. The crash site was examined by officials from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch and the wreckage of the aircraft was removed from the site to the AAIB base at Farnborough."
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