BBC Weapons Source Reported Missing!

"Dead Microbiologist Kelly
Was Chief At Porton Down
From Nico Haupt
Global Free Press
7-18-3


As GFP found out (last week), ...Kelly was more than just an "adviser to the Foreign Office". From 1984-1992 he was Head of Microbiology at the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment, Porton Down.

Kelly was also among the hardliners who claimed that Iraq had WMD. In October 2001, Kelly claimed, that in 1985, Iraq obtained Anthrax through a mail order of Virginia-based American Type Culture Collection.

It was not obvious if Kelly was indeed the BBC Source.

Kelly took also part in all trilateral visits to the former Soviet Union, Russia, the US and the UK. He was Senior Advisor on Biological Weapons to UNSCOM from 1994--99, and led and participated in many inspections in Iraq from 1991--98.

From 1984-1992 Kelly was Head of Microbiology at the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment, Porton Down.

Porton Down, controversial for their Chemical Warfare Experimental Stations from the 20s to the 50s, was also able to obtain the Anthrax Spores, which had been used in the October 2001 attacks.

Porton Down, directly, and the CIA, indirectly, received their samples of the particular anthrax spores used in the attacks from the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infections Diseases at Fort Detrick, about 50 miles north of Washington.

Since the First World War, the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment at Porton Down carried out experiments on volunteers to understand better the effects of chemical agents that might be used against British troops in warfare and improve protective measures.

In the 90s, Porton Down's cooperation with the British Government became stronger again and ended basically in a merger:

By 1991 the Chemical Defence Establishment of Porton Down became the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment and was one of the six new Defence Support Agencies. In 1995, the Establishment became part of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), an executive agency of MOD evolved in 1994 from proposals of the "Front Line First Defence Cost Studies.

In 2001, DERA split into two organisations: QinetiQ, a private company, and DSTL (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory), which remains an agency of MOD. Porton Down is now known as DSTL, Porton Down.

Today, Dstl delivers defence research, specialist technical services and the ability to track global technological developments.

In July 2002, the Carlyle Group took a 34% stake in QinetiQ."

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A conspiracy just isn't the same these days if it doesn't involve the Carlyle Group.


Copied from a message board:


"David Kelly's death is consistent with a modified version of the anthrax cover-up theories purveyed by banned freeper "The Great Satan". Kelly was head of microbiology at Porton Down in August 1988, when Iraq tried to acquire the Ames anthrax strain there. Officially, those requests were refused. But who knows what happened off the record?

That was the year in which the Iran-Iraq war finally ended. It seems that in 1987 Iran was winning, so the West decided to back Iraq unreservedly. The war turned around for Iraq, and on 8 August 1988, Iran agreed to a ceasefire, partly out of fear of Iraq's unconventional weapons.

So here is the scenario. The decision was made by someone - I won't guess who, or how many were in the loop - to covertly assist Iraq's nascent WMD programs, going so far as to allow Iraq to acquire some of the leftovers of Western biowarfare research. At the time, this was seen merely as "playing hardball" with Iran. No-one imagined how much trouble *Iraq* would go on to cause, and certainly no-one imagined that thirteen years later, those same leftovers would be showing up in the mailbag at Capitol Hill. So the anthrax letters had to be dissociated from 9/11; and David Kelly had to be killed before he give away the reason why."

"Kelly left Porton Down in 1992. What the Telegraph fails to mention is that in 1993, according to my notes, Porton Down's anthrax defense program was privatized by Speywood Holdings, Ltd., and ultimately controlled (through shell companies), by a Saudi (Citibank) investment banker, Fuad El- Hibri, who is believed to have supplied anthrax "research" samples to Saudi Arabia after Britain refused to do so. El-Hibri also later gained control of the sole U.S. anthrax vaccine manufacturer, Intervac."


"Kelly's link to Porton Down is interesting, but, like Piasa, I believe it's unlikely that Iraq got the Ames strain with the blessing of either Britain or the US, but there are certainly many other possibilities.

The interesting fact is that the year after Kelly left Porton Down, the anthrax research facility passed into the hands of a Saudi who is believed to have furnished anthrax to Saudi Arabia, who was known to be seeking it, purportedly to create a vaccine to defend against Iraq's bioweapons. Given the Suaid/Wahabbi/Al Quaeda connection, and the fact that many in the House of Saud support terrorism, I can't help thinking that Porton Down is the key to the anthrax puzzle that the Feds have so busily not solved to date.

I really don't know too much about Kelly, but from a link posted yesterday, he was apparently warning about Iraq's bioweapon program (specifically anthrax sprayed from planes) in 1998, and yet he admitted to the British inquiry board last week that he "could have said," as the BBC quoted, that there was only a 30% possibility that Iraq had WMD. Something doesn't jive here -- unless, like other government bureaucrats, he was simply ensuring his job security with worried comments about Iraq in 1998. (A safe bet, since the U.S. launching war against Iraq under Clinton was almost a non-certainty under any circumstances.) It's also possible that he sold out to one of Saddam's minions, either recently or long ago."

None of the above is my own opinion, i just thought they raised some interesting points.

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"David Kelly�s murder � Is it a punishment or a warning?

Is it a mafia-like execution to hide the truth?

Murder of Dr. David Kelly, one of the members of UN�s Weapons Inspection team in Iraq to find the weapons of mass destruction allegedly manufactured and piled up by the Saddam government, has left no doubt that to which extent the group of criminal-minded individuals responsible for a new conflict in the Middle East could go to serve its vested interests.

Although all the government agencies in UK and the media in United States is trying to portray this seemingly cold blooded murder as a �suspicious suicide�, the circumstances led to Dr. Kelly�s disappearance and death clearly indicate that who should be held responsible for silencing a voice for sanity and truth.

UN inspectors were under grave threat before the war. Before the war on Iraq, the US administration, acting like mafia gangsters, used all fair and foul tactics to justify a war on Iraq to appease some specific lobbies. Top US officials were hurling threats to the UN inspectors and were pressurizing them to declare that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

The diplomats representing the members of the Security Council were being threatened for dire consequences if their countries did not vote for a war resolution. It was not diplomacy. It was not statesmanship. It was abuse of power and authority for which both George W. Bush and Tony Blair are personally responsible.

Now when Blair faced tough criticism because of a BBC�s report that he intentionally exaggerated the facts and added fiction to his analyses to sell the war plans to the people of Britain, an inspector is killed. Is it the punishment to speak to the media and disclose what the truth was? Or it is a warning to other inspectors and government officials that they could be murdered if they spoke truth."


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"The Kelly Suicide? Naming the Elephant.

It was absurdly easy to murder Dr. David Kelly. His regular habit of walking through the quiet fields to nearby Longworth Hill saw to that.

The killer was waiting there, amid the trees near the hilltop. As Kelly arrived he moved into plain sight, pretending to admire the view while reading a map.

He casually asked Dr. Kelly for directions. But once he got close, he sprayed a mist in the scientist's face. Kelly collapsed and was instantly unconscious.

With a fast deft movement, he slit Kelly's left wrist, standing well clear to avoid bloodstains on his own clothing. While the still unconscious Dr. Kelly bled to death, he pressed a packet of Co-proxamol, a prescription painkiller, into Kelly's right hand, then shook it onto the grass nearby.

The tablets were mere window dressing designed to enhance the suicide scenario. As the post mortem would later confirm, Kelly died as a result of the massive hemorrhage.

It had taken only minutes to create a sacrificial lamb who could be the spur for overthrowing Blair's leadership of the British Labour Party. An outcome which could eventually have explosive effects on the US political system too.

There was no other choice.

In Washington, Blair had just made a tactical appeal to the judgment of history for his action in invading Iraq, as US politicians cheered him on.

Meanwhile, the BBC Board was living on borrowed time:

"Dr Kelly was supposed to have been the joker in the pack that would end the long-running battle with the BBC. He was supposed to have knocked down Andrew Gilligan�s claims once and for all, allowing Mr Blair to head off to Washington with the affair all but finished."
The Scotsman, 19 July, 2003,
Prime Minister faces his biggest challenge

Kelly was clearly the BBC source for Gilligan's story on the "sexing-up" of evidence of Iraqi WMD. Soon Alistair Campbell would no doubt claim Gilligan exaggerated Kelly's comments and the BBC had backed him in a lie by claiming their source was in the intelligence services.

Tony Blair would then piously condemn sloppy journalism and insist his Iraq dossier was soundly based overall. As he had done in Washington, he would appeal again to the court of history to judge of his actions. The campaign to oust Blair would be over.

That outcome was preventable. By murdering Dr. Kelly"


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There were so many reasons for this guy to get bumped off, its unreal.