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  Dr David Kelly The death of a civil servant, a casualty of war 19.07.2003By PAUL VALLELY At 3pm on Thursday in Britain two men - whose destinies had, in the few days before, become inextricably intertwined - each took a fateful step. Dr David Kelly, a microbiologist and one of the country's leading experts in biological and chemical weapons, left the three-storey 18th century farmhouse in the village of Southmoor near Abingdon which was his home. He was wearing an off-white cotton shirt, blue jeans, brown shoes. He told his wife, Janice, he was going for a walk and...

The political fallout from the death of David Kelly may prove incalculable. While hard-boiled ministers and MPs were reduced to near-whispers by the tragedy, it did not stop them defending - or attacking - the government's handling of Dr Kelly after he outed himself as an informant of the BBC's Andrew Gilligan. Frantic telephone exchanges with Tony Blair's Boeing 777 above the Pacific led quickly to the appointment of Lord Hutton's judicial inquiry with a limited remit. The No 10 spokesman brushed aside charges of inconsistency after weeks of resisting an inquiry into the use of intelligence in the run-up...

Friday July 18, 2003, 9:08 a.m. EDT Police Eye Dead Body as Missing Blair WMD Accuser British police say that a body discovered in Oxfordshire, central England early this morning matches the description of missing defense ministry advisor David Kelly, who is believed to be the source of allegations that Prime Minister Tony Blair "sexed up" intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Kelly's family reported him missing late Thursday after he failed to return to home from an afternoon walk, the Associated Press said. The Ministry of Defense has identified Kelly as a possible source for a British...

Found Body Matches Missing UK Scientist -Police LONDON (Reuters) - Police said the body of a man found earlier on Friday matched the description of Dr David Kelly, a former U.N. weapons inspector who became dragged into a political row over Britain's case for war against Iraq (news - web sites). Reuters Photo   "We can confirm that the body matches the description of Dr Kelly. The body has not been formally identified," a police spokeswoman said. Police announced they had found the body on Friday morning. Kelly went missing overnight after telling his family on Thursday he was going...

ARMS 'MOLE': BODY FOUND The Ministry of Defence is set to launch a judicial inquiry into the case of arms adviser Dr David Kelly, who is feared dead after vanishing from his home. A body matching Dr Kelly's description was found near his home in Oxfordshire, this morning. Thames Valley Police say his family will be taken to formally identify the body tomorrow. The cause of death will not be revealed until a post-mortem has been carried out. The body was discovered at Harrowdown Hill, a beauty spot about five miles from Dr Kelly's home in Abingdon at 9.20am. It was found lying face down...

LONDON - A body found in central England matches the description of a missing Ministry of Defense adviser who had become embroiled in a controversy over the government's intelligence dossiers on Iraqi arms, police said Friday. "The body found matches the description of David Kelly, but the body has not yet been formally identified," a spokeswoman for Thames Valley Police said. Officers had earlier reported finding a man's body in a wooded area about 5 miles from Kelly's home. His family reported him missing late Thursday when he didn't return to his home in Southmoor, about 20 miles southwest of...

<p>A body found in the Oxfordshire woods added a dark twist Friday to questions about the intelligence Prime Minister Tony Blair used to justify war in Iraq.</p> <p>Police tentatively identified the dead man as David Kelly, a Defense Ministry expert suspected of being the source of media claims that the government hyped its reports on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.</p>

LONGWORTH, England (Reuters) - A mild-mannered British scientist was found dead in the woods Friday after being unwittingly dragged into a fierce political dispute about intelligence used to justify war on Iraq. British police said they had found a body matching that of soft-spoken defense ministry biologist David Kelly, a former U.N. weapons inspector, who had been grilled in parliament over allegations the government hyped intelligence to justify war.

  Home > Top Stories > World Friday, July 18, 2003   |  Nation |  Business |  Indo-Pak Face Off |  Entertainment |    World   British scientist who ‘briefed’ BBC reporter on Iraq dossier found dead H.S. Rao (Press Trust of India) London, July 18: British government's defence advisor David Kelly, suspected to be a source behind BBC's report that the Blair government had "sexed up" its dossier on Iraq's weapon capabilities, was found dead on Friday, four days after he was grilled by the foreign affairs committee on the issue. The body of 59-year-old Kelly, who was missing since Thursday, was...

EXACTLY what made Dr David Kelly’s life suddenly unbearable will be the focus of political recriminations for years to come. The pioneering weapons inspector who uncovered Saddam Hussein’s secret anthrax programme was incensed at his treatment by a committee of MPs and frustrated that his own evidence to them had been flawed. Dr Kelly apparently found it impossible to live with his inner torment. At 3pm on Thursday he left his house, saying he was going for a walk. Paul Weaver, a farmer, spotted the scientist on a footpath more than a mile from his home. The only oddity was...

Last Updated: Thursday, 17 July, 2003, 20:43 GMT 21:43 UK Journalist accused over dossier story BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan has been accused of changing his story when giving evidence to MPs over his report that No 10 "sexed up" an Iraqi weapons dossier. The BBC stands by Gilligan's reporting of his source The Radio 4 Today programme defence correspondent appeared before the Foreign Affairs Committee in private to again discuss his allegations against Downing Street press chief Alastair Campbell. Committee chairman Donald Anderson said: "Mr Gilligan clearly changed his mind in the course of the evidence, in particular in relation...

The man, according to BBC Journalist Andrew Gilligan, to have told him that some parts of the so-called 'dodgy dossier' has gone missing, according to Sky News.

The man named as the possible Whitehall "mole" for a BBC report claiming the Government "sexed up" its dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction has denied he was the source of the story. Dr David Kelly, a Government adviser on Iraqi weapons, said he had met the BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan a week before he broadcast his story on the Radio 4 Today programme. However, he told the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee that Mr Gilligan's account of his conversation with his source was so different from their conversation that he did not believe that he could be the source....