DAVID KELLY GOES AWOL

[randita]

If it is a murder, (or a hit), who would have done the deed and left the body around for clues to be found?

[mewzilla]

As long as they shut Kelly up, what do they care about clues? It's not as though there will really be an investigation about this, not a serious one at any rate.

[randita]

As long as they shut Kelly up, what do they care about clues

From the murderer's, standpoint, it would be better to have him vanish and then just have speculation and conspiracy theories about why than to have enough clues to remove doubt and lead investigators to the murderer(s).

We'll have to wait and hear more about this story before coming to conclusions. It truly may just be a case of a man have a heart attack while exercising.

[Betty Jo]

Binny and his boys,including Saddam.

Bin Laden and Saddam both have great senses of humor.

They are killing us, cheaply.

Singing..."Killing us cheaply with their tricks, killing us cheaply with their stuff....

Whats was her name? Black female from DC area?

[mewzilla]

Could be, but they're making the family wait till tomorrow to ID the body. Would they need or want to if the guy had just had a heart attack?

[randita]

More info from Sky News:

ARM MOLE'S BODY FOUND

[Miss Marple]

Au contraire, there will be an enormous outcry for an investigation, if the circumstances are at all suspicious.

I do not think the UK government would have killed him in such a public manner. It would only increase the outcry.

However, someone who has a vested interest in embarassing the Blair government would do so. Since I don't think Ian Duncan Smith would do this, I am left with Iraqi or French agents, minions of the anti-Bush faction here in the USA (most especially the Clintonistas) or the radical leftist denizens of the BBC themselves.

[randita]

Could be, but they're making the family wait till tomorrow to ID the body. Would they need or want to if the guy had just had a heart attack?

Sky News account claims the body was found in a wooded area. That sort of rules out a sudden heart attack, it seems to me. So what's left is suicide or murder. Sky News also quoted wife as saying he was very upset and unhappy about his situation. We'll know soon enough.

[mewzilla]

Personally, I don't think the party that's content to let George Galloway remain a member of Parliament wants to get to the bottom of anything. Obfuscate, smear, disinform...you bet. Genuinely investigate? I won't hold my breath.

[Timesink]

Two words: Vince Foster.

That is precisely what Simon Marks (remember him?) just said on Fox: This is going to be the Blair Government's Vince Foster.

[irgbar-man]

David Kelley = Arkancide with a British accent. That's my guess. The US press will pick up the story and translate it into American English, but then the spin will need decoding.

[Miss Marple]

There are two wings of the Labor party. There are the semi-normal people, like Blair. Then there are the Kucinich/Dean/Maxine Walters types, from which Galloway springs.

I actually think that that group (the nut-case left) is suspect in this, in an effort to discredit Blair.

The left wing of the Labor Party would like Blair to resign. It wouldn't mean that the Conservative Party would take over, but rather a more left wing Labor member would become PM.

[Helms]

Roberta Fleck, I suspect.

[sam_paine]

Is he also Kelly? But he's in the military or CIA?

[riri]

More than likely, he went to meet with someone. Which tells me, he knowingly had dealings with shady people.

[Timesink]

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[Timesink]

The story (and FR thread) of this scandal from last night, before Mr. Kelly pulled a Vince Foster:

Journalist accused over dossier story (Did BBC Reporter Lie To Screw Over Tony Blair?)

[Stew Padasso]

"However, someone who has a vested interest in embarassing the Blair government would do so."

Break out the tin-foil before its too late.

[aristeides]

If Kelly was really an avid walker, as reported, I think it is most unlikely he would have had a heart attack at his age (unless it was a chemically induced heart attack.)

[aristeides]

Isn't Mossad also an obvious possibility? They have been known to assassinate people. And they might have been afraid of what Kelly might reveal.