DAVID KELLY GOES AWOL

[browardchad]

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.

He could very well have committed suicide, or he may have known something that made him dangerous -- and I don't mean to the British government, since they are the ones that essentially outed him. It could also be that he was simply unstable, but then again, Scott Ritter and George Galloway aren't paragons of mental health either.

[Big Bad Bob]

IT COULD FINISH BLAIR.

[Big Bad Bob]

Can you add me to your ever-growing ping list.

By the way, thought this might interest you all. Gilligan is reportedly a right-wing Telegraph hacker.

I've got no time for Blair, due to his surrender to the E.U, so unlike you Yanks, I would be rather happy for him to go, but not like this. Then we'll see the true face of Commie Labour. I know it won't be popular, but we on the right here, have got a separate agenda.

Can you think of anywhere in the world where MPs who constituencies are based where they have got separate parliaments, can vote on issues which won't affect their voters. One result of Blair's devolution plans, making English voters put up with legislation which has only been pushed through thanks to the Labour Party forcing Scottish and Welsh MPs voting for the legislation.

[Timesink]

Can you add me to your ever-growing ping list.

You've been added!

[Int]

HMMMMMMMM.....Did the journalist TWIST the truth and write a story that fitted HIS agenda??? Mr. Kelly MIGHT be telling the truth that he said something totally different to Mr. Gilligan!!!

But then why the suicide?

[Int]

Gilligan is reportedly a right-wing Telegraph hacker

Are you saying he's a journalist that has worked (or still is working) for the Telegraph?? I thought he was just a Radio 4 journo.

[Ann Archy]

Good question....Shame??

[Big Bad Bob]

He left the telegraph, but still writes for predominantly, right-wing papers such as the above and the Mail on Sunday.

[apokatastasis]

Here's another angle: David Kelly was a Baha'i. This is a religion that was founded in Iran in the 19th century, and was persecuted terribly in Iran during the war against Iraq. Baha'is would have their own particular reason to see Iran's Islamic revolution as uniquely evil - think of Falun Gong's attitude to Communist China. Could the Iraqis have gotten to Kelly from this direction? "Give us the anthrax, and it will hasten the end of the anti-Baha'i regime." Remember, Kelly was head of the microbiology unit, so he presumably had the keys to the store. And I am very struck by the fact that the Porton Down conference on anthrax, attended by two Iraqi bioweaponeers, was held in the same month that Iran finally agreed to the ceasefire. Cause and effect?

Of course, if Kelly converted to Baha'ism *after* the Gulf War, perhaps during his time in the Middle East as a weapons inspector, then this line of thought leads nowhere.