Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups (63 page)

5. The paramedics who were on the scene, Dave Bartlett and Vanessa Hunt, have testified that there was not nearly enough blood at the scene to justify the belief that he died from blood loss. They inspected the entire area. They located a small amount of blood on some plants near Dr. Kelly’s body and a small patch of blood on his trousers that was about the size of a coin.
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6. The victim’s body was outside on a cold afternoon. Cold weather exposure causes further vasoconstriction, dramatically slowing blood loss.
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7. Only a fifth of one tablet of coproxamol was found in Dr. Kelly’s stomach. Although levels of the drug’s two components in his bloodstream were higher than therapeutic levels, they were less than a third of the level considered fatal. Therefore, the Independent Forensic Panel concluded:

“We dispute that Dr. Kelly could have died from hemorrhage or from coproxamol or from both.”
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8. A group of thirteen highly respected British physicians has officially contested the official findings and are still locked in a legal battle to overturn what they know to be false. Their conclusions are blunt:

“You couldn’t commit suicide like that.”

“‘The idea that a man like Dr. Kelly would choose to end his life like that is preposterous. This was a scientist, an expert on drugs.”
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9. The knife that he allegedly used to commit suicide was blunt and did not have any fingerprints on it whatsoever (a fact not released until late 2007 when it was obtained via a Freedom of Information request from Member of Parliament Norman Baker). Dr. Kelly was not wearing gloves, so there should have been fingerprints.
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Norman Baker, MP:

“Someone who wanted to kill themselves wouldn’t go to the lengths of wiping the knife clean of fingerprints. It is just very suspicious. It is one of the things that makes me think Dr. Kelly was murdered.”
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10. No fingerprints or DNA were found on any of Dr. Kelly’s personal items at the death scene.
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Police tested his personal items three times, and all tests came back negative for both DNA and prints.
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Forensic experts note that it is now routine to examine crime scene objects for DNA because it is logical to expect the owner’s microscopic cells on personal items they have handled, such as cell phones or eyeglasses. Since Dr. Kelly was not wearing gloves, forensic experts say it is difficult to explain the abcense of DNA and fingerprints on: his mobile phone, the knife that he allegedly used, the packages of pills he allegedly took, the water bottle he allegedly took the pills with, and his wristwatch.
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11. Dr. Kelly had a weak right arm which would have made it exceedingly difficult to make the already awkward motion of cutting one’s left ulnar artery. He also had a strong aversion to swallowing tablets. Close friend & co-worker Mai Pederson:

“ ... Kelly’s weak right arm and inability to swallow pills make it impossible”
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12. Dr. Kelly was reportedly not wearing a jacket when he left his house, which was logical, as it was not yet that cold outside, and he planned on being right back. However, his jacket was found near him at the crime scene.
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13. Also found at the crime scene were a pruning knife with blood on it, right next to the body, as well as three foil packets (packets holding ten each) of the mild pain reliever copraxamol. But none of the items were near the body when the searchers first discovered it. It’s quite logical to think that they would have seen and noticed a knife and a water bottle, both with blood on them, both right next to the body. But they did not observe them.
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14. Several reports were made to police by local residents who had independently of each other witnessed several men in black clothing wandering in the woods in the hours prior to his body being located and in the areas near where the body was found.
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15. Dr. Kelly’s body was moved post-mortem on at least two occasions. The two search volunteers who first located the body, both swore that it was leaning up against a tree. The body was later said to be found laying flat upon the ground. Additionally, the searcher who found the body is also positive that his right arm was at the side his body. But by the time that the two paramedics arrived, they both clearly remember having to move his right arm off his chest in order to check for vital signs.
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16. Contrary to the attempts of the “clean-up” efforts after his death, Dr. Kelly actually made the statement “I will probably be found dead in the woods” on several different occasions and, moreover, he made it clear that it was a serious statement regarding concrete fear for his life if the promises made to Iraq were betrayed (Iraq was told that it would
not
be invaded if it cooperated with inspections, which it did).
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17. Many sources close to Dr. Kelly confirm the fact that he was not a man who was even remotely contemplating taking his own life.
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18. All official medical reports concerning the death were sealed confidential for seventy years.
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19. Remarkably, forensic testing that is considered standard, was never done on Dr. Kelly’s body. For example, a test to measure residual blood (blood left in the body) would have revealed the exact extent of blood loss. The testing was never conducted.
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20. Dr. Kelly was at work on an unauthorized book that he said was going to expose the lies of the Bush and Blair Governments. He shared that information with intelligence expert and historian Gordon Thomas:

“I visited Dr. Kelly as part of research into a book I was writing. But he told me that he was writing his own book, which intended to show that Tony Blair had lied about his reasons for going to war with Iraq. He had told the Prime Minister categorically that there were no weapons of mass destruction.” “Dr. Kelly was not a man given to exaggeration or showing off; he was the absolute expert in his field and if he said there no weapons of mass destruction, then there were none.

I told Dr. Kelly he would never be allowed to publish his book in Britain. I told him he would put himself into immense danger.”
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21. Agents of MI5 arrived at Dr. Kelly’s house and seized the hard drive to his computer (containing his book) thirty minutes before Kelly’s body was found. All signs of Kelly’s book vanished along with it.
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23. Concerted efforts have taken place to minimize the effects of irreconcilable facts in the death of Dr. Kelly and to thwart efforts aimed at opening a sincere investigation of his murder.
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Dr. David C. Kelly was Britain’s premier expert on BW/CW (Biological War-fare/Chemical Warfare) and senior Weapons Inspector for the United Nations charged with inspecting Iraq at precisely the moment in history that the U.S. and U.K. were attempting to justify an invasion of Iraq. He was an accomplished scientist at the top of his field and was respected internationally for his proven professionalism. His credentials are officially described as “the senior adviser on biological warfare to the MoD (Britain’s Ministry of Defence) ... the West’s leading biological warfare inspector” with “world-recognized expertise in every aspect of biological warfare [whose] knowledge cannot be overtrumped.”
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Dr. Kelly had inspected Iraq’s chemical and biological facilities on many occasions and knew that Iraq possessed no WMD (weapons of mass destruction). He also knew, with absolute certainty, that Iraq possessed no capability of delivering WMD.

As the pounding of the war drums increased in intensity, the claim was officially made in Western media that Iraq’s weapons programs effectively placed the Allies “forty-five minutes from doom.” That claim was a lie, and David Kelly knew it.

Dr. Kelly was also a man of great integrity:

“Dr. Kelly became senior adviser on biological warfare for the UN in Iraq in 1994, holding the post until 1999. He was sufficiently well respected to have been nominated for a Nobel peace prize by the man who led the Iraq weapons inspections for much of the 1990s.”
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The same integrity that led to Dr. Kelly’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize for uncovering biological weapons in Iraq during the 1990s caused his refusal to go along in complete silence with a claim that he knew to be false about Iraq’s weapons capabilities in 2003.

The above combination of events cost Dr. Kelly his life. Dr. Kelly liked to say that his loyalty is to what

“I believe is right or wrong, true or false.”
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And he had sound reason for believing it too—

“This discussion of the past is also about the future. As David Kay, the American weapons-hunter who found no weapons, told the Guardian: ‘The next time you have to go and shout there’s fire in the theatre people are going to doubt it.’”
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Dr. Kelly’s background took him deeper into the secret world of Intelligence than most people are aware. Consider that he:

•Was directly responsible for and directly involved in the defection of Russia’s leading microbiologist, which thwarted attempts at a bio-weapon capable of wiping out a third of the world’s population;

•Worked for
MOSSAD
(the elite Israeli intelligence corps) since 1995, with the approval of MI6 (British Intelligence);

•Played a key role in defining the Ames-strain of anthrax for the FBI in the U.S. anthrax attacks;

•Consulted frequently for the CIA, MI6, and MOSSAD on matters of the highest security level imaginable;

•Was the only civilian that the CIA allowed to question a top-level Chinese defector.

His actual role in the Intel community then was as a
major player.
He was considered the “go-to guy” for the world’s greatest threats of a biological nature. He “consulted” confidentially on matters of world-class importance in this role, like a James Bond of the academic world, a “scientist spy” of the highest caliber in existence. He was even more than that:

“It is no exaggeration to say that between 1990 and his death in 2003, Dr. Kelly probably did more to make the world a more secure place than anyone else on the planet.”
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So let’s not insult this man’s intelligence. Dr. Kelly possessed a
brilliant
mind— he was a world-renowned, top-of-his-field scientist— which is further demonstrated by the fact that he even predicted his own murder.

Yet we are asked to believe, by the Official Version, that this extremely intelligent individual—armed only with an old pruning knife with a dull blade— inexplicably wandered off into the woods to do away with himself.

Britain’s leading vascular surgeon, John Scurr, confirmed the nonsensical- ness of the notion that Kelly slashed his ulnar artery:

“Cutting the wrist, it’s a sort of cry for help—it’s not generally regarded as a reliable way of committing suicide ... It would have been necessary to use the knife, really the wrong way round, and go up. It’s an unusual way of trying to cut yourself to start with.”

—John Scurr, Vascular Surgeon
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The suicide explanation that was advanced by the authorities was that David Kelly was human and that he had an increasingly difficult time in dealing with the publicity arising from the media exposure over his professional disagreement with the claim about Iraq’s WMD program, and that it was that discomfort which led him to suicide.

That version of his death has been proven false by the known facts. While not pleased by that turn of events, Dr. Kelly was quite clearly not suicidal over it or, for that matter, over anything else. His mood and attitude at the time have been clearly characterized as “tired, subdued but not depressed.”
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Dr. Kelly had a very tough reputation as a professional who was as solid as they come. Colleagues and friends described him as the least potentially suicidal person they knew. He’s the man who, during a tense interrogation, broke down the infamous “Dr. Germ”—when interrogating Dr. Rihab Taha, a ruthless expert in the wea- ponization of biological agents, he literally brought her to tears. So let’s not fall for any of the nonsense that he was suicidal over some media coverage because a man of Dr. Kelly’s personality would have batted that off like a flea, and there is substantial evidence that he had.