Row focuses on Kelly's naming (New from BBC)

BBC News - World Edition

The row over the death of Dr David Kelly has focused on how the scientist's name came to be made public during the dispute over Iraqi weapons which ultimately led to his death.

Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon was accused by several newspapers on Tuesday of allowing Dr Kelly to be named as a "mole".

The Financial Times said Mr Hoon had approved a media strategy whereby the Ministry of Defence would confirm Dr Kelly's name to journalists if they suggested it. ---

According to the Daily Mirror, Mr Hoon was implicated in the naming of the scientist by Downing Street on Monday, when it said: "The matter was overseen by those at the appropriate level at the top of the MoD."

In the initial row which followed the story, the MoD did not name Dr Kelly - who had come forward to his employers - except in a confidential letter to the chairman of the BBC.

But the strategy of confirming his name meant three newspapers were able to deduce who he was.

Downing Street had also been "consulted" over the strategy, the FT said.

The Independent has a different take on events - it believes the MoD wanted to protect Dr Kelly's identity, but was overruled by Downing Street.

And the Telegraph said it was a Downing Street briefing which originally gave out enough clues about Mr Kelly's identity to enable journalists to guess it.

The Telegraph said the BBC had also given out more details about its source's identity than it should have. ---

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assisted suicide. Why are there no cries for an investigation into his manner of death. You cannot tell me that people just think "oh yeah, suicide, poor chap."

There IS going to be a formal inquiry into the death of Mr. Kelly. It was announced I believe last Friday. Must pay attention, grasshopper!

Except they are working on the premise that he committed suicide.

The only person to speak up, now he's dead.

Kelley spoke to the BBC and their dark agents forced him into making untrue embarassing statements about the matter. He felt so bad about the false allegations and bad press he had caused that he decided to do himself in. First he told his wife he didn't want to be in witness protection anymore. Then, after leaving witness protection and moving back home, he cleverly told his wife he was going out for a normal walk along the hill. He ingeniously took some prescription medicine he had lying around and a scalpel. He ingested the pain killers and, before the effects disabled him or made him change his mind, he cut along the length of his arm. He took great risk in using such a slow suicide method out in the open, where someone could have easily stumbled across him, or been sniffed out by a dog out for a walk with his owner. And it was risky to use a 4 hour death method while his wife knew he was in great danger and would be missing him before the suicide was even coimplete, but these were chances he was willing to take, because dying ASAP was far more important than the wedding or ant of the appointments he had set.