British Scientist Missing

[RainDog]

Just heard on CNN. no link.

A British scientist who testified about the exaggeration of the Bush/Blair weapons claims is missing.

according to the CNN anchor, a body has been found..don't know it it's been identified.

reminds me of the dozen or so scientists across the world who suddenly died after 9-11.

[RainDog]

1. From the Guardian

his body has been found

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/story/0,12123,1000923,00.html

[BurtWorm]

2. I don't think it's been identified yet

has it?

[RainDog]

5. sorry. a body. no one else missing in the area

the assumption is that this is his body since no one else has been reported missing in the area.

this calls for a link to Paul Thompson's cooperative research about the coincidence of all those missing scientists after the anthrax moment.

(or whatever it is someone is cooking up...hate to say these things, but geeeeeez..paging the Borgias..)

[teryang]

3. I guess he went for a long walk....

And met some concerned friends along the way.

[Nihil]

8. It's him

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3076801.stm

> A body found in a police search for a missing Iraq weapons expert
> matches the appearance of Dr David Kelly, police say.

FWIW it was only about a mile from his home so not even a long walk.

Nihil :-(

[arcos]

4. How much did he know?

:tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat::tinfoilhat:

[Nihil]

9. Lots and lots and ...

Ex-head of microbiology at the Chemical Defence Establishment in
Porton Down from 1984 to 1992. One of the government experts who
spoke out about the Iraq FU. That by itself is fairly important
but if you add in the following snippets from the Guardian biography
(http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1000915,00.html)

> an adviser to the government and an expert in biological warfare
...
> He spent seven years as an Unscom inspector in the 1990s, visiting
> Iraq on 37 occasions
...
> He was chief science officer at Britain's Natural Environment
> Research Council institute of virology
...
> Dr Kelly became senior adviser on biological warfare for the UN
> in Iraq in 1994, holding the post until 1999.
...
> Between 1991 and 1998 he played a key role in inspecting Iraqi
> weapons after the Gulf war
...
> He also led all the visits and inspections of Russian biological
> warfare facilities from 1991 to 1994
...
> In September last year he gave evidence to a Commons committee
> probing the war on terrorism.

There is a point where "coincidence" is not a credible answer.

Nihil

[molly]

6. Hmmm - they must be really afraid

[Terwilliger]

7. sounds like he was Baxtered

:nuke:

[trumad]

11. This dude is a key player...

July 18 (Bloomberg) -- A body has been found during a hunt for a missing armaments expert named by the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense as a possible source for a report that a dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was ``sexed up,'' police said.

A police helicopter was dispatched to help search for David Kelly, who was reported to have failed to return to his home in Southmoor, Oxfordshire, northwest of London, yesterday afternoon, according to Thames Valley Police.

The body of a male was found at Harrowdown Hill, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from his home at 9:20 a.m. this morning, Acting Superintendent Dave Purnell said in a televised news conference.

Kelly, 59, a U.K. government weapons adviser, admitted meeting a British Broadcasting Corp. journalist a week before a government dossier was published that said Iraq was capable of firing weapons of mass destruction with 45 minutes' notice and was a threat to other countries. He denied he told the journalist there was concern in intelligence circles that the dossier exaggerated Iraq's weapons capability.

A BBC report on the alleged ``sexing up'' of the dossier caused a rift with the government that has dominated the domestic media agenda. There have been calls by legislators for U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign for ``misleading parliament'' over the reasons for going to war with Iraq. No weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq since a U.S.-led coalition invaded it in March.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aXwkCtJPm3HE&refer=europe

[KoKo]

12. Yes, he was the source for the BBC reports against Iraq Invasion and was

BBC's Gilligan's "source" for articles that the dossier was faulty. This is a BIG story.........because the BBC has a suit agains Blair's government.........

[jackstraw45]

10. Another victim of the BFEE...n/t

n/t