BBC's Iraq "source" reported missing

Dr David Kelly, believed by many to be the source of the BBC's claim that the UK Iraq dossier was "sexed-up" by Blair's staff, has been reported missing by his family.

This is breaking news on Sky (UK). No link as yet.

On edit: Left home at 3pm local time yesterday to "go for a walk", has not been home since. Kelly is an official with the UK Ministry of Defence.

n/m

This cannot mean good things.
He is probably strapped in a chair, with his
glazzies all propped open, watching imbedded journalist
footage, to the tune of Ludwig Van, oh my droogs and brothers.

But he would be "viddying" imedded journalist footage. :)

A body has been found.. no other details yet

I can here Blair.......

"well, maybe I will be out of the country when this happens....."

real quick

...this man's name isn't added to a list of "suspicious deaths"...

that leaves out small plane crash or one-car accident.i'm putting my money on "suicide".

I'm not taking that bet!

Are there any question that the Bush Family are murderers?
http://www.themanisreport.tripod.com/enronsuicide.html


http://darker0darker.tripod.com/

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1097383,00.html

ARMS ADVISER IS MISSING

An official adviser named as the possible "mole" for a BBC report claiming the Government "sexed up" its dossier on Iraqi weapons, has disappeared.

Dr David Kelly went missing from his home near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, at around 3pm yesterday.


The 59-year-old had told his wife he was going for a walk, Thames Valley Police said

The family raised the alarm when he had failed to return by 11.45pm last night.

Dr Kelly faced a grilling on Tuesday by MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee about what he told BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan.

It was Mr Gilligan who filed the original report claiming the Government had "sexed up" the weapons dossier.

More follows...

Still no info released as of ~20 minutes ago

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3076801.stm

> Police say he is an avid walker and has good local knowledge
> of the many footpaths surrounding his home.

... and so is unlikely to have simply "got lost" (it's not what
you would call "hostile country" round there).

> It is not unusual for him to walk for two or three hours at
> a time, but unusual for him to do this alone.

Usually observes basic safety precautions ... but not this time.

> "Due to the bad weather and the fact it is unlikely he was wearing
> a coat he would have been distinctive ..."

... not to mention far more liable to exposure, hypothermia, ...
again, contrary to his usual safe approach to walking ...

> ... his disappearance and failure to make contact with anyone
> is described by his family as 'out of character'.

Pressure can make people behave "out of character". I really hope
that this is the case here and that he will be found sheltering
very soon.

Nihil

Determination will the next big story....

"1055 BST: Police investigating Dr Kelly's disappearance say they have discovered the body of a male, as yet unidentified."

ordinary street crime i am sure.

figure in an international scandal of epic proportions.

Dude got Baxtered.

I can't believe this

:wow:

> Tony Blair, who is heading to Japan, has been informed about the
> discovery of the body.

Hmmm ... why?

Consider that the police haven't even confirmed the ID of the body
as being Kelly. Now the PM has apparently been informed that an
unnamed body has turned up in the Oxfordshire countryside.

I find it hard to believe that Fifi is interrupted on his globe-
trotting for every unidentified corpse that appears.

Wonder if they'll compare the handwriting on any convenient note
that may turn up to that of the "Nigerian export minister"?

My fingers are still crossed that this is just a coincidence of
course but the gut-feel disagrees.

Nihil

under these circumstances OF COURSE he would be informed.

Dude got Kennedyed

Dude got ML Kinged

Dude got Bush-Blair-whacked.

:(

Maybe he was attacked by a sheep.

...even though the show manages to make it seem like Oxford is the murder capital of the world, the actual murder rate there is trifling.

The one major flaw in all these shows. If I ever saw Miss Marple or Jessica Fletcher coming I'd run screaming. "Get away, someone's gonna die!" Actually, it's even worse: how come the police never connect the dots and say, wait a minute, every time this woman shows up, someone gets murdered. Maybe we're chasing the wrong criminals...."

A Ministry of Defence advisor, named by the government as the possible source for a disputed news report on Iraqi arms, has been reported missing by his family, police said Friday.

Police searching for David Kelly said Friday they have found a male body about 5 miles from his home in in Oxfordshire, central England.

But detectives have not yet identified the body, a spokeswoman for Thames Valley Police said.

http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030718.wdisappear0718/BNStory/International/

http://darkerxdarker.tripod.com/

or maybe "natural causes" like Lori Klausitis.. ..

This really stinks, but nothing will come of it, because there is a massive cover-up underway.. The trutch MAY come out many years from now, but this whole "episode" of lying your way into war, will be covered up and hidden away..

nothing to see here..move along...get over it...move on...:(

Ordinary and quiet man could not take the public pressure and humiliation.

Straw, Blair and Campbell are very much responsible if this is true. They used him as a pawn in their attack against BBC and Gilligan, threw him to the hyenas and accused him of being "the source" - knowing the accusation to be untrue - a sacrificial gambit. But this is not chess, these are humans, not pawns.

Just one more death to add to the list of their Iraqi crimes... :(

That is the most ridiculous motive for suicide I've ever heard of. He was a microbiologist. I think he would know that the press would no longer be paying him attention in a few months to a year or two.

And, the British aren't going to skimp on the investigation like U.S. police have done in the past with potential political assassinations that look like suicides.

Yeah, I'm jumping to conclusions. But, I don't care. I'm going with my gut on this one.

The shit hits the fan, the waters are muddied even more, and any good publicity from Blair's poodling last night is extinghished.

This is a tragedy, but I'm not going to jump to conclusions here other than to say this is obviously suspicious. Other than that we know very little at present.

Didn't realise he was ex-Porton Down (head of mb there for 8 years).
I think that the actuaries in the insurance industry are going to
start marking "microbiologist" as a high-risk occupation ...

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1389514,00.html

MISSING ADVISOR'S TESTIMONY

microbiologists that committed suicide or had heart attacks since the beginning of the year or withing the last eight months?

How many microbiologists are dead?

Is there any article that threads it all together?

Kelly. Another one?

cooperativeresearch.org

I tried to go there this morning but couldn't load it and have to go to work now.

Paul Thompson's excellent site has a section which deals with the scientists.

this is so blatant, isn't it?

This, outing Wilson's wife and thus endangering her, her sources...

He is a little out there with the sci-fi-alien stuff, but many of his articles are well researched and quite credible.

Microbiologist Death Toll Mounts
httm://www.rense.com/general20/mic.htm

Strange Cluster of Microbiologists' Death Under the Microscope
httm://www.rense.com/general24/exk.htm

I wonder if the position of his fingers was "accidental":)



Fri Jul 18, 5:34 AM ET

David Kelly is seen after being questioned by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee in London this July 15, 2003 file photo. Kelly a Ministry of Defense advisor on weapons of mass destruction, named by the government as the possible source for a disputed news report on Iraqi arms, has been reported missing by his family, police said Friday July 18, 2003. ( AP Photo/ PA )

in that picture after questioning.
This death should make Blair a little scared and empower the coverup crew. Why do important links always disappear?

so sad and I also don't want to jump to conclusions, but reminds me of the Enron "suicide." I hope his death will not be in vain and that these lying bastards are outed.

n/t

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3076801.stm

Body 'matches' Iraq expert


Mr Kelly arriving to give evidence to MPs this week
Police searching for the weapons expert suggested by the government as the possible source for a BBC story on Iraq say the body they have found matches Dr David Kelly's appearance.


Oh shit oh shit oh shit...

the body found is the dr. No cause listed yet.

Someone else mentioned - and I think it's important:

Wilson talks to the press

a right wing shill "journalist" does a story that adds to Wilsons and name the source as "Wilkinson"

The Wilkinson story is then retracted as a hoax - but the headlines are what's remembered. "CIA claim false"

Wilsons wife is outed by two un-named officials as a long time CIA operative - ruining her career, and perhaps endagering her life.

David Kelly turns up dead....

CNN reported that he was a former weapons inspector. If we only could see through hia eyes.

Maybe George Tenet is scheduled for a brain aneurism soon?

:shrug:

The body found near the home of Dr David Kelly, the government adviser named as the possible source of controversial claims about the Iraq weapons dossier reported by BBC correspondent Andrew Gilligan, matches the description of that of the missing man.

Police at the scene confirmed the clothes matched the description of those Dr Kelly was wearing when he left home at 3pm yesterday, when he was wearing jeans, a white cotton shirt, a brown leather belt and brown shoes.

However, Thames Valley police say they are conducting two separate investigations - one into Dr Kelly's disappearance and another into the identity of the body - and there is no official confirmation yet the body is that of Dr Kelly.

<snip>

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1001008,00.html

> Police have said there will be no formal identification until a postmortem
> is completed tomorrow.
> Dr Kelly's family will not be taken to identify the body until tomorrow,
> and police have said they will not confirm the identity of the body until
> a full postmortem has been carried out.

I thought the identification would normally take place before the postmortem
in a "missing person" case. More so in this case as the body was found lying
face down (i.e., there will be a lot of examination of the facial tissues to
find out if he died lying down in the place where he was found).

Or can they do that sort of examination without too many cuts these days?

Still, at least it gains enough time to get the story straight ...

Talking about Kelly's death at 7:40AM CDT, then do this
incredible segway w guy describing his
bud Kelly
into IRAN having
Radioactive SAMPLES of something!

Can CNN throw a story even as they're reporting it?

Is there anything left to lie about?

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3077425.stm :

> ... Labour committee member Eric Illsley told BBC News 24: "I would not
> have thought that simply appearing before a select committee on this issue
> would be sufficient for him to take the actions that he has done."

Thus implying that "the pressure sent him over the edge, he took his own life,
case over, move on". The seeds are being sown.

The postmortem has to be completed before the decision about a judicial inquiry
is made ... but the postmortem will be tomorrow ... which is a Saturday ...
News does not propagate well at the weekends but the little seeds sown this
evening will have chance to grow in the meantime. By the time Monday arrives,
this will not be "hot news" - just "news" - and the various background threads
will have made their mark on the nation's psyche, attention will have drifted
elsewhere ... like to Asian photo-ops, "North Korea rah-rah-rah", "didn't the
Prime Minister do well in Congress?" and other such noise.

Oh, by the way, the Bush/Blair meeting appears to have changed the state of
play with the British Gitmo prisoners ("suspended the threat of military
hearings"). That will probably capture more headline space over the weekend
than anything from Oxfordshire.

However ...

> John Maples, a Conservative member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said:
> "If it is Dr Kelly, it is just awful. What can you say? Nothing.
> "There must be more to this than we had thought. I do not know what that
> means, I just think there is.

Want to bet he gets slapped down, warned or smeared in the near future?

> "In fact, several people (on the committee) said 'you have been used by the
> government'.

Sadly, his "use" didn't end there.

> Before news that police had found a body in their search for Dr Kelly,
> Downing Street was keen to rebut suggestions the official had been made
> a "fall guy".

I'll bet! Whoops ... kill that meme before someone reinterprets it!

Nihil

Mess me with and this is what will happen?

"Dont mess with Texas?"

As to the "pressure driving him over the edge" theory...that just sounds like bullshit.

PB

No reason to give Freep any more traffic so I won't post a link but there are two threads, at least, about this and about 30% of the messages believe that he was "bumped off". Now, when the day comes that people on DU and Freep start to agree on a particular issue, you can rest assured that a wide spectrum of the public, both in the US and Britain are going to share the same suspicions...

PB

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3078585.stm

To most people who knew him, he was a quiet, gentle man who would always offer a cheery wave and give you the time of day. Few of his neighbours in the rural Oxfordshire villages where David Kelly lived and liked to ramble were aware that he was "a significant person" - that was until his televised appearance before the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.

Only days later, those same neighbours and friends are reeling from the shock that a body has been found on one of the routes he liked to walk along - and all are dumbfounded at the likelihood it is him.

Across the road at the Waggon and Horses pub, the front terrace is filled with reporters speaking hastily in to mobile phones.

Those not in the know, stop and stare, or walk past in wonderment at why this house and least of all this little, one-street village, has suddenly become so newsworthy.

(snip)

Bush takes the 2 UK "terror" suspects off the quick-tribunal-and-execution list.

If this isn't a quid pro quo I don't know what is, and they're doing this right in front of our faces!

Bush takes the 2 UK "terror" suspects off the quick-tribunal-and-execution list.

If this isn't a quid pro quo I don't know what is, and they're doing this right in front of our faces! :mad: :puke:

the British press is going to go on a howl.

And where was Richard Perle on the day in question?

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