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`Kelly
was Murdered' Says UK Intelligence Insider
by Simon
Aronowitz
Shocking
new details about the death of Dr David Kelly emerged today
exclusively on the Alex Jones radio
show. Michael Shrimpton, a UK national security lawyer who was a
guest on the show, revealed that sources within MI5 and MI6 are
`furious' that Kelly was murdered.
Shrimpton
spoke in depth about the details of Kelly's murder on 17th July 2003,
information which has been withheld by the British press.
With
apparent backing from the organisations whose members he claims to
speak for, Shrimpton presented their view that Dr Kelly had been
murdered by a team of assassins and the charade of an apparent suicide
was then played out to cover this up.
Speaking
with impeccable credentials, including contributions to the Journal
for International Security Affairs and having previously given a
closed-doors confidential briefing the US Senate Intelligence
Committee, Shrimpton exploded the much-reported myth that Dr Kelly had
taken his own life.
He spoke
of the probable method of Kelly's death, the group which most likely
carried out the assassination, who arranged it and finally where the
responsibility lies. Additionally, he explained the political context
and motive for Kelly's murder.
David
Kelly went missing on 17th July 2003 and was found dead on 18th July.
In the previous days, Kelly had testified before Parliament's Foreign
Affairs Select Committee that he was not the source of a BBC story
which had accused the Government of making false claims about Iraq's
WMD. When Kelly's body was found, the British press quickly reported
it as a suicide, though several analysts had their doubts.
On
Jones' show, Shrimpton explained how he had learned that David Kelly
was the BBC's source before the BBC disclosed this fact. He went on to
explain that his source from within the intelligence community knew
David Kelly personally, and did not believe that he had committed
suicide. After making their own enquiries, says Shrimpton, this source
determined that Dr Kelly had not committed suicide, but rather had
been assassinated.
Michael
Shrimpton
Apparently
at ease to discuss these explosive disclosures, Shrimpton explained
that there was advance knowledge of Kelly's death in Whitehall, but
that the deed itself was most likely carried out by the French
external security organisation, DGSE. There was no indication that
anybody in MI5 or MI6 had been involved. He went further by suggesting
that the hit squad itself was composed of Iraqis from the former
regime's Mukhabarat intelligence organisation, recruited from Damascus
with the help of Syria's own intelligence apparatus. They were
apparently then flown into Corsica, seven days prior to the murder. He
doubts that any of the hit-squad are still alive.
Officially,
Kelly's body was said to have been found in a copse, in a wood, but
the forensic tents were set up in the adjacent field, suggesting, says
Shrimpton, that the body was found in the field. This has not been
explained to his satisfaction.
The
incision in Kelly's wrist was probably to conceal the injection of
both Dextroprypoxythene, the active ingredient in Co-Proxamol, and
Succinylcholine, a muscle relaxant, rather than as evidence of his
bleeding to death, as highlighted by a group of six doctors in letters
published in the British press. Shrimpton further agreed with the
doctors by pointing out that Kelly only had one Co-Proxamol tablet in
his body and that this was not sufficient to kill him.
According
to Shrimpton, Kelly was murdered because he had been talking to the
press and there was a fear of what else he might discuss with
journalists. Furthermore, Kelly was due to return to Iraq and may have
learned fresh information on that trip which Whitehall could not
afford to trust him with.
Shrimpton's
appearance on Jones' show gave him the first public opportunity to
bring forward his information, since the story has been effectively
censored by the British Press, who according to Shrimpton are
concerned about losing the pro-Euro Tony Blair as Prime Minister were
they to publish details of Kelly's assassination. Blair's departure,
he says, could threaten Britain's proposed adoption of the Euro as the
national currency.
Whilst
this story begins to circulate in the USA, the coverage in the UK may
well remain nil, whilst maneuvering behind the scenes attempts to
pre-empt Shrimpton's accusation of government-sanctioned murder of one
of its own operatives.
Only
with public support, and a belief that this information should be
widely known, can this information be brought into the wide open and
covered by the mainstream media.
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here for a transcript of the entire interview
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