Blair says weapons expert death a "tragedy", urges calm

Associated Press , Yahoo News ^ | July 19, 2003 | AP

[prairiebreeze]

Ironically, this weekend's crisis has its roots in Blair's last week-long journey abroad in late May when he visited British troops in southern Iraq.

Nothing ironic about it at all. UK libs use the same tactics as ours do. Strike when the leader is out of the country.

Prairie

[livius]

Yes, that's one of their favorite tactics.

I hope Blair's supporters are aggressive about this and point out that the only people who stood to benefit or at least be protected by Kelly's death were Blair's opponents, particularly in the press. I read that on Thursday, Kelly was supposed to turn over a list of the reporters he had spoken to.

That said, it's quite possible that he committed suicide, since it doesn't sound as if he was used to the savage treatment handed out by the press and politicians. I suspect that dealing with WMD is nothing when compared to dealing with a baying pack of politically motivated reporters.

[prairiebreeze]

Believe I heard that a press conference is expected sometime soon. Somehow I think the press will use their tools to shift responsibility away from themselves. Hope the Brits see through that.

Agree about dealing with WMD vs. politicians. Who wants to be lowered into a pit of rattlesnakes??

Prairie

[steve50]

Not sure I buy the "press" drove him to it. To similiar to the Foster spin.

[mewzilla]

Considering that Kelly e-mailed a friend within a day or two of his death that he (Kelly) was looking forward to getting back to work in Baghdad, I really doubt Kelly offed himself.

[prairiebreeze]

I wonder if this isn't yet another mysterious -circumstance microbiologist death. Won't this make 14 or so in the last couple of years?

Prairie

[Sacajaweau]

"THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH".

I hope Kelly left diaries which will help Tony, though I think the issue should have been laid to rest a long time ago.

I'm sure that Hillary is gloating after hearing of Kelly's death. After all, she told Tony that she thought an investigation by the Brits was the right way to go!!

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[mewzilla]

I thought the late Mr. Kelly was #13, but who's counting? Blair needs to get to the bottom of this, but I wonder if he's got the stomach for it.

[steve50]

I thought the late Mr. Kelly was #13, but who's counting? Blair needs to get to the bottom of this, but I wonder if he's got the stomach for it.

I wonder if he can keep the investigation confined to the Ministry of Justice, or whatever it's called over there. Not much danger in investigating yourself, as past experience it the US would attest to.

[mewzilla]

Well, someone needs to get to the bottom of this. What's going on looks like the next best thing to a coup attempt to my mind.

And FWIW, anyone who's interested in a little backround on Andrew Gilligan, who's not even mentioned in the above article interesting enough, can click here for a backround story from the Guardian a couple of days ago.

[Miss Marple]

If this was a suicide, it certainly came at an inconvenient time, which indicates to me a motivation for a murder.

Who gains by this man's death? Certainly not Blair.

My suspects are the far left in Blair's own party, who would like to unseat him as PM, aided by the left in this country, particularly the Clintons; the BBC and its allies in the print media; and foreign agents, particularly terrorists and/or the French.

[glock rocks]

This does have a Fosteresque aroma about it, doesn't it?

[Miss Marple]

Well, let's just say it's highly suspicious. I don't like to use the Foster name because it tends to point the finger at the Chief Executive (in this case Blair) and because too many moderates will discount any suspicions, having been convinced by the mainstream press that Foster's death was a non-story.

I do not think Blair had anything to do with this. It may indeed have been a suicide, and if so will be easily identified as such by the coroner's inquest.

However, if the results are inconclusive, I remind everyone that Blair does NOT benefit from this death; enemies of Blair and Britain will.

[mewzilla]

Click here for an article from today's Telegraph on Kelly and the eight hours before he was found. The aerial pic is interesting. Can't believe the guy walked all the way out there through hedgerows in bad weather to kill himself.

[steve50]

Who gains by this man's death? Certainly not Blair.

I think you got a bad case of blaming everything on klintoon and the so called left. The real villians are the globalist "New World Order" types, and they cross party/national borders.

Despite his denials, which aren't that uncommon by whistleblowers, I find it likeley he was one source for the information that has 56% of the Brits saying they trust Blair as far as they can throw him.

If foul play is involved the first place to look is the Blair faction.

[mewzilla]

But why? Gilligan had already been discredited. And Kelly wasn't copping to being Gilligan's source in any case. What did Blair have to gain by Kelly's death?

[verity]

This does have a Fosteresque aroma about it, doesn't it?

Not yet. Decomposition has not yet set in. ;~)

[randita]

Soo-ee-cide. Tom Lantos would be pleased.

[steve50]

Kelly not admitting he was the source doesn't make it so. In one of his statements at the hearing he said he wasn't the only source that had been talking to Gilligan.

I don't see how the Blair opposition or the press needed him out of the way, to imply the BBC offed him seems desperate to me. Blair has the most to lose from unauthorized disclosure, so that's where any logical inquiry would start.