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Diana's death an accident, report to say
Herald Sun ^ | 14 December 2006

Posted on 12/14/2006 3:33:45 AM PST by Aussie Dasher

A LONG-awaited report into the death of Princess Diana in a Paris car crash due out today is expected to refute theories of a plot by British intelligence targeting her and confirm a French probe that said it was an accident.

The report by Lord John Stevens, the former commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, has concluded that Diana died in a traffic accident after her driver lost control of the car, British newspapers said today.

Fleeing paparazzi photographers, Diana, 36, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, 42, and their chauffeur Henri Paul, 41, were killed in a car crash in a Paris underpass in the early hours of August 31, 1997.

Bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones survived.

A two-year investigation in France blamed Paul for losing control of the black Mercedes because he was driving too fast while high on drink and prescription drugs.

According to The Times, Lord Stevens and his team believe that had Diana, Fayed and Paul worn their seatbelts, as Rees-Jones did, they could have survived.

Princes William and Harry had been briefed on the conclusions of the probe into the death of their mother, British news media reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: accident; poms; princessdiana; report
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To: Aussie Dasher

My buddy Al say it was space aliens who used their super duper secret ray to force the car off the road and kill Diana. Why, because she was about to reveal their plot to take over the world.

Remember use only Alcoa the finest in Aluminum foil.


21 posted on 12/14/2006 5:11:40 AM PST by Valin (History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
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To: dakine

"Diana dead?"

Arkancide.


22 posted on 12/14/2006 5:14:52 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." Lenin)
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To: Aussie Dasher
"Ron Obvious will now attempt to leap the English Channel"
23 posted on 12/14/2006 5:22:35 AM PST by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Fishtalk
So she gets involved with that dopey Dodi guy, who was a less than scholarly son of the owner of Harrods in London, a Muslim, by the way.

Knowing this, why does the idea of murder seem so far fetched? The mother of the heir to the British throne married to a Muslim? I'm sure the Royals found this scary stuff (rightfully so.)
24 posted on 12/14/2006 5:24:35 AM PST by smalltownslick
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To: Valin

this is wife of buckhead commenting. what is missing from this story is
the clinton connection. diana was with dodi only because the clinton
administration refused to let her visit republican donor ted forstmann
in the hamptons that summer. she was going to bring the princes for a
visit and the clinton secret service told her they couldn't insure their safety!
meanwhile, the clintons were illegally tapping the phones of both forstmann
and diana. bill clinton was possibly indirectly responsible for her death.
the coverup of this aspect of the story is incredible. not unlike the sandy
burglar theft of top secret papers. i don't think people should be so cavalier
about this event. i do think her death was an accident but her reason
for even being with that idiot dodi has gone conveniently unexposed for all these years.


25 posted on 12/14/2006 5:25:44 AM PST by Buckhead
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To: Fishtalk
Get into a car, speed at over 90 miles per hour in a tunnel filled with nasty posts and columns, have a drunk driver at the wheel and be sure to not have seatbelts.

So true. General Patton was mortally injured in a ridiculous crash at about 20 mph when his staff car ran into the side of a truck and he was thrown off the seat and collided with another part of the car, breaking his neck. Princess Nitwit is the poster girl for one thing--the seat belt industry.

26 posted on 12/14/2006 5:26:31 AM PST by libstripper
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To: Riptides
IDIOTS!!!!
You spineless spaniards might as well kneel down now and let the Muslims behead you your sorry heads.
You people disgust me.
Stupid bastards.

WOW!

Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition!

27 posted on 12/14/2006 5:31:29 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: bondjamesbond

This is the actual Buckhead, as opposed to my Di-fixated spouse.

My theory is it all started when Diana's fondness for regular colonic irrigations led to an unfortunate incident in the back seat, distracting the driver and causing him to lose control.


28 posted on 12/14/2006 6:17:11 AM PST by Buckhead
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To: Buckhead

In light of Post #21, I'm beginning to see how you come to be posting on font kerneling in the middle of the night!

Just joking Mrs. Buckhead! Ha ha!


29 posted on 12/14/2006 6:30:09 AM PST by bondjamesbond (Many Americans are invested in a US failure in Iraq, and will work diligently to bring it about.)
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To: Fishtalk
I've travelled up and down this east coast and I've never seen anything like that tunnel was configured.

In Paris you hit pillars, in Boston the roof falls on you. Quaint local customs.

30 posted on 12/14/2006 6:35:45 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: smalltownslick

Well I suppose it's possible.

But hey, I used my good old common sense since I'm not a political or celebrated elite, thus I still have some.

A)Drunk driver...VERY drunk
B)Paris tunnel with dangerous pillars right by the road
C)Baited attempt to the paparazzi to follow. Princess Di LOVED the photographers and often called them up to tell them where she would be at a particular time. What'd you think a photographer just happened to be out on a boat when all those pics of her with Dodi with her fine self in a bikini was just happenstance?
D)Speeding, speeding, speeding...90 miles an hour, into a big non-yielding pillar....common sense tells me, but it could just be me, that this is a dangerous thing.
E)NO seatbelts. How on earth could anybody pre-plan such a thing so subject to personal whims? Were the seatbelts CUT OUT from that car? If not, how could anybody predict that they wouldn't just use their seatbelts and if they had, by all accounts that I read they could have survived. If you're planning on murdering someone you generally don't leave it up to such a personal whim.

But hey, I know celebrities and such think they are above the laws of nature so perhaps a murder plot could have ASSUMED this. I'm skeptical, however.
F)This is more a gossip thing than anything so take it at that....no way was Diana ever going to MARRY Dodi Fayed. Diana had her eyeballs on JFK jr. and some bigwig financial guru, forget his name, who was considering a run for the presidency. Diana had dreams of being the next Jacqueline Kennedy or some variation thereof.

Diana hung around with Dodi Fayed specifically to drive Charles and her former in-laws nuts. But don't kid yourself, those royals knew the scoop. They never liked Diana one whit and I don't blame them. She was a total airhead.

I mean consider her "pet cause"...landmines in Korea. It was all for show. Children being blown up by hidden landmines? It's the PERFECT "cause" for one so blessed as Diana.

Landmines are placed between the north and south border of Korea in certain places for a REASON. Think Kim Jong Il and starving North Koreans. They'd all like to pour into South Korea where they have lights at night, not to mention actual FOOD. Not to mention that protecting one's border, not that America gets this sometime, is very important. Wouldn't Kim Jong Il LOVE to march into South Korea with a few of his faulty nukes and try a takeover.

If children were getting blown up by those landmines, well what the hell were they doing walking around a place where it was known that there WERE landmines?

And Diana, because it was a good sight and sound byte for us idiots who use our seatbelts when driving at 90 miles per hour through dangerous tunnels, this concept of saving the limbs of young children, chose this cause for it's photo appeal. Removing those landmines would have caused world havoc.

She never gave a moment's thought to just WHY those landmines were there, or would she ever. It simply wasn't part of her thinking and it was NEVER about saving children, gimme a break.

Hey, during Diana's hayday I used to read all about her. Not that I'm proud of this fact, but I do enjoy watching a live show put on for my own benefit, which was all Princess Diana was.

Pity, though. She used bad judgement and she did have young children.

But the woman threw her life away, right down the toilet, when she had so very much to live for. Who knows, perhaps one day she would have gotten her priorities straight.


31 posted on 12/14/2006 7:10:55 AM PST by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com)
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To: Aussie Dasher
An accident? Conspiracy is much better for business...

Since Clinton spied on her, I'm not ruling out Arkancide :^)

32 posted on 12/14/2006 7:13:07 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Where is my Reagan, Don't say it's John McCain. Where have all the conservatives gone? - P.Shanklin)
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To: smalltownslick
The mother of the heir to the British throne married to a Muslim? I'm sure the Royals found this scary stuff (rightfully so.)

My sentiments as well.

I always thought Diana doodled with Dodi to stick it to the Royals, like when she gave her TV tell-all interview.

It seems this time she went too far.

33 posted on 12/14/2006 7:20:27 AM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: Fishtalk

I've driven through that very tunnel in Paris several times. Probably not as dangerous as you make it out to be at 50 mph. Diana and Dodi's car was going over 100mph, though. Seat belts don't help much at that speed.


34 posted on 12/14/2006 7:28:13 AM PST by CholeraJoe (Spork weasels ain't afraid of nuthin' but running out of sardines.)
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To: Fishtalk

Excellent post.


35 posted on 12/14/2006 3:07:46 PM PST by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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