Diana-Remembered-Part3



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[ image: Trevor Rees-Jones arrives for further questioning]
Trevor Rees-Jones arrives for further questioning

Paris Match, now on news-stands in Europe and available on the Internet, carries pictures of Diana taken the day before her death in Paris and claims she made barbed comments about her royal duties.

Paris Match said it delayed publication out of respect for the Princess but it declined to name the journalist who secured the 'exclusive interview'.

In the interview, Dodi and the Princess are said to have been asked about their plans for a future.


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Diana: "profound feelings" for Dodi





















Paris Match, now on news-stands in Europe and available on the Internet, carries pictures of Diana taken the day before her death in Paris and claims she made barbed comments about her royal duties.

Paris Match said it delayed publication out of respect for the Princess but it declined to name the journalist who secured the 'exclusive interview'.

In the interview, Dodi and the Princess are said to have been asked about their plans for a future.


Dodi is said to have spoken of marriage and Diana is quoted as having "profound" feelings for him.

"I've never enjoyed such harmony. My dream ... why not make a love marriage out of this?" Dodi said in the magazine.

Diana was more circumspect: "My feelings for Dodi are profound and I believe his are sincere," she said.

Diana's former Personal Secretary, Michael Gibbins, cast doubt on the magazine's claims that this was a genuine interview and that it was her last before she died.

"If it had taken place, it would have been during the Princess's first holiday to France when Dodi was only present at the end and any relationship there may have been had not developed," he said. "To talk about marriage and children would have been absolutely extraordinary."

He added: "My view is that this alleged interview, as an interview, did not take place. What may have happened is that people may have got together snippets of private conversations over a period - it is strange that the interviewer's name is not revealed."

It is understood that action against Paris Match is unlikely as advisers fear legal moves could further publicise the story and add to the distress of Diana's family.

In regard to her charity work, the magazine reports that Diana declared it was better to be involved in humanitarian causes than be stuck "on the sidelines of a polo field."

Visiting slums was more fulfilling than staying in "icy palaces", Diana is quoted as saying.

The magazine also quotes Diana as having said: "My only moments of real happiness were the births of William and Harry."

Her love for the young Princes would have kept Diana in Britain, according to the interview.

"William and Harry are in school in England and they need me as much as I need them, so I won't move abroad," she is quoted as having said.

Diana frequently visited America and there were constant rumours that she wanted to live there.

Mohamed Al-Fayed, Dodi's father, is launching his own investigation into the crash that killed Diana and Dodi. He has hired a former police investigator to head it.

Diana's bodyguard back in Paris

Princess Diana's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash, is being questioned again by a French investigating magistrate at the Palais de Justice in Paris.

It is the third time Mr Rees-Jones has been questioned about the accident.  He has said he remembers leaving the Ritz Hotel but no details about the crash itself.Mr Rees-Jones returns on a regular basis to Paris for medical check-ups. His face was seriously scarred in the tragedy. Judicial authorities in France have deneid French tabloid reports that investigators had given up finding the owner of a Fiat Uno thought to have been involved in the crash.

 


It is the third time Mr Rees-Jones has been questioned about the accident. He has said he remembers leaving the Ritz Hotel but no details about the crash itself.

Mr Rees-Jones returns on a regular basis to Paris for medical check-ups. His face was seriously scarred in the tragedy.

Judicial authorities in France have deneid French tabloid reports that investigators had given up finding the owner of a Fiat Uno thought to have been involved in the crash.


[ image: Al Fayed: employed Henri Paul as a driver]
Al Fayed: employed Henri Paul as a driver
[ image: Henri Paul: tests showed he was drunk]
Henri Paul: tests showed he was drunk



















UK Diana's lawyers could sue Al Fayed

image: [ Diana's family may demand at least £8m in compensation for her death ]
Diana's family may demand at least £8m in compensation for her death

Lawyers acting for the estate of Diana, the late Princess of Wales, have taken steps towards a possible compensation claim for millions of pounds.

They have registered a civil interest in the criminal investigation into her death which could lead to a claim against the business empire of Mohammed Al Fayed.

Reports say that if French investigators rule that Mr Al Fayed, as the employer of the driver of the car in which the princess was killed, is responsible for her death, the estate would have grounds to sue.



A spokesman for the princess's estate said no civil action would be initiated until the criminal investigation into the crash had been completed.

Tests after the crash on August 31 revealed that Henri Paul was three times over the French drink-drive limit when the Mercedes limousine he was driving crashed in an underpass tunnel at about 100mph (160kph). Royal sources have said that the minimum claim against the Harrods' boss would be £8m which amounts to the inheritance tax incurred after Diana's death, according to a report in The Sunday Times. The princess's former head of staff, Michael Gibbins, has confirmed that the estate was registered as an "interested party" in the ongoing criminal investigation in Paris.

He said: "The situation is that the executors for the estate have registered the estate as a party interested in the criminal investigation in France. Under French law that has to be done in order to allow the estate to gain access to the papers and that is what has been done."

He added: "No consideration has been given to the question of any civilian action, nor would that consideration be given until the criminal investigation has been completed." 

Doubts over Diana and Dodi's 'last interview'
19 Dec 97 | World  Diana bodyguard returns to Paris

19 Dec 97 | UK  Tabloids get code of honour after Diana's death

Internet Links Diana Remembered - BBC site [uses frames] 


Friday, December 19, 1997 Published at 19:32 GMT

UK Doubts over Diana and Dodi's 'last interview'

[ image: Paris Match: will not reveal the name of the interviewer]

Paris Match: will not reveal the name of the interviewer

image: [ Princess Diana: quoted as making barbed comments about Royal life ]
Princess Diana: quoted as making barbed comments about Royal life


[ image: Trevor Rees-Jones arrives for further questioning]
Trevor Rees-Jones arrives for further questioning











Princess Diana's former aides are examining an article published on Friday by the French magazine, Paris Match. The magazine claims it conducted an intimate interview with the Princess of Wales and her friend Dodi Fayed not long before the couple were killed in a car crash on August 31. Buckingham Palace says the interview never took place and Diana's closest adviser has cast doubt on its authenticity.  Paris Match, now on news-stands in Europe and available on the Internet, carries pictures of Diana taken the day before her death in Paris and claims she made barbed comments about her royal duties. Paris Match said it delayed publication out of respect for the Princess but it declined to name the journalist who secured the 'exclusive interview'. In the interview, Dodi and the Princess are said to have been asked about their plans for a future. Dodi is said to have spoken of marriage and Diana is quoted as having "profound" feelings for him. "I've never enjoyed such harmony. My dream ... why not make a love marriage out of this?" Dodi said in the magazine. Diana was more circumspect: "My feelings for Dodi are profound and I believe his are sincere," she said. Diana's former Personal Secretary, Michael Gibbins, cast doubt on the magazine's claims that this was a genuine interview and that it was her last before she died. "If it had taken place, it would have been during the Princess's first holiday to France when Dodi was only present at the end and any relationship there may have been had not developed," he said. "To talk about marriage and children would have been absolutely extraordinary." He added: "My view is that this alleged interview, as an interview, did not take place. What may have happened is that people may have got together snippets of private conversations over a period - it is strange that the interviewer's name is not revealed." It is understood that action against Paris Match is unlikely as advisers fear legal moves could further publicise the story and add to the distress of Diana's family. In regard to her charity work, the magazine reports that Diana declared it was better to be involved in humanitarian causes than be stuck "on the sidelines of a polo field." Visiting slums was more fulfilling than staying in "icy palaces", Diana is quoted as saying. The magazine also quotes Diana as having said: "My only moments of real happiness were the births of William and Harry." Her love for the young Princes would have kept Diana in Britain, according to the interview. "William and Harry are in school in England and they need me as much as I need them, so I won't move abroad," she is quoted as having said. Diana frequently visited America and there were constant rumours that she wanted to live there. Mohamed Al-Fayed, Dodi's father, is launching his own investigation into the crash that killed Diana and Dodi. He has hired a former police investigator to head it.

Diana's bodyguard back in Paris

Princess Diana's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash, is being questioned again by a French investigating magistrate at the Palais de Justice in Paris.  It is the third time Mr Rees-Jones has been questioned about the accident. He has said he remembers leaving the Ritz Hotel but no details about the crash itself. Mr Rees-Jones returns on a regular basis to Paris for medical check-ups. His face was seriously scarred in the tragedy. Judicial authorities in France have deneid French tabloid reports that investigators had given up finding the owner of a Fiat Uno thought to have been involved in the crash.

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08 Nov 97 | UK  Diana's brother makes fresh attack on press

05 Nov 97 | World Prince Charles praises Diana

Internet Links Paris Match's Diana interview  BBC's Diana Web site


[ image: Diana:
Diana: "profound feelings" for Dodi















Dodi is said to have spoken of marriage and Diana is quoted as having "profound" feelings for him.

"I've never enjoyed such harmony. My dream ... why not make a love marriage out of this?" Dodi said in the magazine.

Diana was more circumspect: "My feelings for Dodi are profound and I believe his are sincere," she said.

Diana's former Personal Secretary, Michael Gibbins, cast doubt on the magazine's claims that this was a genuine interview and that it was her last before she died.

"If it had taken place, it would have been during the Princess's first holiday to France when Dodi was only present at the end and any relationship there may have been had not developed," he said. "To talk about marriage and children would have been absolutely extraordinary."

He added: "My view is that this alleged interview, as an interview, did not take place. What may have happened is that people may have got together snippets of private conversations over a period - it is strange that the interviewer's name is not revealed."

It is understood that action against Paris Match is unlikely as advisers fear legal moves could further publicise the story and add to the distress of Diana's family.

In regard to her charity work, the magazine reports that Diana declared it was better to be involved in humanitarian causes than be stuck "on the sidelines of a polo field."

Visiting slums was more fulfilling than staying in "icy palaces", Diana is quoted as saying.

The magazine also quotes Diana as having said: "My only moments of real happiness were the births of William and Harry."

Her love for the young Princes would have kept Diana in Britain, according to the interview.

"William and Harry are in school in England and they need me as much as I need them, so I won't move abroad," she is quoted as having said.

Diana frequently visited America and there were constant rumours that she wanted to live there.

Mohamed Al-Fayed, Dodi's father, is launching his own investigation into the crash that killed Diana and Dodi. He has hired a former police investigator to head it.

Diana's bodyguard back in Paris

Princess Diana's bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash, is being questioned again by a French investigating magistrate at the Palais de Justice in Paris. It is the third time Mr Rees-Jones has been questioned about the accident. He has said he remembers leaving the Ritz Hotel but no details about the crash itself. Mr Rees-Jones returns on a regular basis to Paris for medical check-ups. His face was seriously scarred in the tragedy. Judicial authorities in France have deneid French tabloid reports that investigators had given up finding the owner of a Fiat Uno thought to have been involved in the crash.

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Diana bodyguard returns to Paris

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29 Nov 97 | UK  Diana's grave to be fenced in

08 Nov 97 | UK  Diana's brother makes fresh attack on press

05 Nov 97 | World  Prince Charles praises Diana

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UK Diana's brother makes fresh attack on press


Earl Spencer: tabloids 'operate on a level of sensationalism and destruction'

[ image: Grief-stricken at Diana's funeral]

Grief-stricken at Diana's funeral

Flowers strewn on the island where Diana is buried

[ image: Earl Spencer's life has been on hold since the funeral]


Earl Spencer's life has been on hold since the funeral

Princess Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, has made a fresh attack on the British press, describing some tabloid newspapers as 'evil'.

The Earl, who made a memorable and highly-controversial speech at his sister's funeral in September in which he criticised both the press and some members of the Royal Family, was speaking on South African radio. He said he would not take back one word of his Westminster Abbey address and admitted much of his life had been on hold since her death. "My sister's death is so recent that I probably am not able to analyse what effect it has had on me yet," he said. Earl Spencer, 33, who has become patron of Lifeline, a telephone counselling service, said: "I have got no interest or desire for personal publicity. I am a very private person." The earl, who now lives in Cape Town, said: "If one grew up in Britain one would have a hearty contempt for the tabloid media because it is so despicable. "The main body of tabloid journalism in Britain is evil in its intent - it wants to destroy. They have no concept of the human soul. "They are operating to increase circulation and to make their proprietors richer and if it means people committing suicide, being killed in any way or falling apart, having breakdowns or whatever, that's immaterial to them." Earl Spencer's strongly-worded attack came as fresh reports in the British press linked him with a South African ex-model Josie Borain. There was speculation in Saturday's papers the couple could marry after he divorces his estranged wife. But Ms Borain, who has a one-year-old son, denied she and the Earl were anything more than "just good friends". The 34-year-old fashion journalist said: "Nobody is in a rush for that sort of thing. We see a lot of each other." Ms Borain earned a fortune during the 1980s working for Calvin Klein, modelling his Obsession brand of perfume. She accompanied Lord Spencer to his sister's funeral. Lady Spencer is fighting a legal battle with her estranged husband, who inherited an estate estimated at £90m. Earl Spencer has four children, two of them children by his estranged wife.


[ image: The wreck of the Princess's Mercedes S280]

Princess Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, has made a fresh attack on the British press, describing some tabloid newspapers as 'evil'.

The Earl, who made a memorable and highly-controversial speech at his sister's funeral in September in which he criticised both the press and some members of the Royal Family, was speaking on South African radio. He said he would not take back one word of his Westminster Abbey address and admitted much of his life had been on hold since her death. "My sister's death is so recent that I probably am not able to analyse what effect it has had on me yet," he said. Earl Spencer, 33, who has become patron of Lifeline, a telephone counselling service, said: "I have got no interest or desire for personal publicity. I am a very private person." The earl, who now lives in Cape Town, said: "If one grew up in Britain one would have a hearty contempt for the tabloid media because it is so despicable. "The main body of tabloid journalism in Britain is evil in its intent - it wants to destroy. They have no concept of the human soul. "They are operating to increase circulation and to make their proprietors richer and if it means people committing suicide, being killed in any way or falling apart, having breakdowns or whatever, that's immaterial to them." Earl Spencer's strongly-worded attack came as fresh reports in the British press linked him with a South African ex-model Josie Borain. There was speculation in Saturday's papers the couple could marry after he divorces his estranged wife. But Ms Borain, who has a one-year-old son, denied she and the Earl were anything more than "just good friends". The 34-year-old fashion journalist said: "Nobody is in a rush for that sort of thing. We see a lot of each other." Ms Borain earned a fortune during the 1980s working for Calvin Klein, modelling his Obsession brand of perfume. She accompanied Lord Spencer to his sister's funeral. Lady Spencer is fighting a legal battle with her estranged husband, who inherited an estate estimated at £90m. Earl Spencer has four children, two of them children by his estranged wife.

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UK  Diana's grave to be fenced in

The fence will be decorated with heart design

Diana, Princess of Wales, is buried at her family home in Northamptonshire

A 7ft high steel fence could soon be built around the island grave of Diana, Princess of Wales. It is one of a number of security measures being planned at Althorp House near Northampton, before the estate is opened to the public for the first time since her death. The Princess's brother, Earl Spencer, wants the fence to be erected around the island and its surrounding lake. It will be painted "estate blue" to match other railings in the 600-acre park. The fence would be decorated will a heart shaped motif to remind visitors of Diana, who became known as the "Queen of Hearts." Daventry District Council said it had received the planning application, but the plans must also be passed by English Heritage because the estate is a grade one listed park. Officials at Althorp hope the fence will help ensure that the island and lake are not damaged by visitors. They expect up to 3,000 visitors a day next summer when the park opens.

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BBC's Stephen Jessel reports from Paris on the investigation into the fatal crash (0'53")


More evidence that a white Italian-made car was involved in the crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, and her friend, Dodi Al Fayed, has been produced by French police. In a leaked report to the investigating magistrate, police quote two witnesses - known as Francoise and Valery to protect their identities - as saying they saw the Fiat Uno zigzagging out of the tunnel in Paris, seconds after the crash. They say the driver was a European man of about 40 with brown hair. He had a large dog in the back of his car and the vehicle had a noisy exhaust. He kept looking over his shoulder and cut in front of the witnesses' vehicle. Not immediately realising the significance of what they had seen, Francois and Valerie waited three weeks before contacting investigators, officials said. Since the crash on August 31, police have checked more than 3,000 vehicles fitting the description, but have not managed to establish a link to the accident. They have been following leads suggesting that a white Fiat Uno built between 1983 and 1989 was involved. Traces of paint and broken glass pointed to such a car having hit the Princess's Mercedes S280. Police are reported to have found one owned by a man with a large dog who recently had his car repainted red. However, they found no evidence to link him to the accident.

Causes of crash agreed

Checks will continue in 1998 despite criticism that the Diana probe has tied up precious resources that might be better used elsewhere. Judge Herve Stephan is not expected to wrap up the inquiry until next summer even though the causes of the crash are generally agreed, justice sources said. Judge Stephan has placed nine press photographers and a motorcyclist under investigation on suspicion that they chased Diana's car and contributed to the accident, or failed to come to the aid of accident victims. But excessive speed and alcohol appear to be to blame rather than the photographers, investigators say. They found that driver Henri Paul was driving at a very high speed and had a criminal level of alcohol in his blood at the time of the crash. 

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 [ image: Diana, Princess of Wales]  
Diana, Princess of Wales


[ image: The wreck of the Mercedes in which the Princess was travelling]
The wreck of the Mercedes in which the Princess was travelling



WorldDiana crash investigation to end with questions unanswered

image: [ The crash scene ]
The crash scene

The French magistrate leading the investigation into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, is preparing to close the case after failing to trace a Fiat Uno thought to be involved in the accident. The £250,000 investigation is described as the "most painstaking inquiry ever held into an ordinary traffic accident", according to a report in the French magazine Voici. The decision to close the case, which is likely to be announced in the New Year, could mean that manslaughter charges against the nine photographers and a motorcycle driver arrested after the crash are dropped. The 24 crime squad officers seeking the owner of the white Fiat will be returned to their normal duties, after investigators decided there was little chance of tracing the missing vehicle. In France the cost of the investigation has been criticised, and judicial sources are reported as saying that Judge Herve Stephan wants to avoid further expenditure of time and effort by the elite Brigade Criminelle. A justice ministry source told the Daily Telegraph: "The feeling is that everything that can be done has been done. France has never known such a thorough investigation into a traffic accident. "The police have interviewed hundreds of people, examined every scrap of evidence. It's now time to draw a line underneath the inquiry because it is going nowhere." Investigators are thought to be convinced that the crash in the Pont de l'Alma was a routine traffic accident, primarily caused by drunk-driving and excessive speed. Blood tests showed that Henri Paul, the chauffeur of the Mercedes who died in the crash with the Princess and her friend Dodi Fayed, was well over the alcohol limit for driving. A civil suit could still be brought by the families of the accident victims against the Ritz Hotel, M Paul's employers. The Ritz is owned by Mohamed Al Fayed, father of Dodi. Police forensic scientists who examined fragments of glass found in the tunnel after the collision believe the Mercedes car hit the Fiat Uno before crashing into a concrete pillar. Despite trying to contact 40,000 Fiat Uno owners in the Paris area, police sources have long complained that the hunt is "hopeless", because a high proportion of registered owners have moved or sold their cars. After questioning thousands of owners, police called in 15 cars for forensic examination of lights and paintwork but found nothing. "It's like looking for a needle in a haystack," said a police source. Police scientists are still examining the wrecked Mercedes. Trevor Rees-Jones, the Princess's bodyguard and sole survivor of the crash, is also expected to be interviewed again by investigators. As soon as the French investigation is closed, the British coroner can begin his own report into the death of the Princess and Mr Fayed. 

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World Egyptian sues British Queen over Diana's death

image: [ Britain's Queen with Prime Minister Tony Blair ]
Britain's Queen with Prime Minister Tony Blair


[ image: Diana on the night she died]

Diana on the night she died

[ image: Dodi Al-Fayed]

Dodi Al-Faye Althorp House

An Egyptian lawyer is suing the Queen and Prime Minister Tony Blair for damages, alleging they conspired to kill Diana, Princess of Wales, because she was in love with a Muslim. The case is expected to be heard in a Cairo court on Sunday. Lawyer Nabih Alwahsi is seeking damages of $170,000 from both the Queen and Mr Blair. He says they plotted to murder the Princess because they were embarrassed by her love affair with an Egyptian Muslim. He also says the British establishment was determined to prevent a Muslim from becoming step-father to the future King. In his deposition, Mr Alwahsi said he thought England was the champion of democracy and religious freedom and he was so disillusioned after the accident, only a court case could ease his psychological pain. The case has already been delayed once by the judge so British officials in Cairo could have time to inform authorities in London. However, they do not appear to have bothered. A British spokesman in Cairo says the Embassy has not received any formal notice of the case. The BBC's correspondent in Cairo says conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, are popular in the Arab world, especially in Egypt where her lover Dodi Al-Fayed was born. It is not the first time an Egypian lawyer has tried to sue the head of another state. Lawyers have sued Israeli leaders as well as the American President, Bill Clinton. Mr Alwahsi's case looks doomed to failure, as judges usually say they do not have sufficient jurisdiction. 

Internet Links The Royal Family Althorp House

 


World Diana's lost ear-ring 'found in car' say police
The wreckage

An ear-ring worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, at the time of her fatal car crash in Paris is reported to have been found by police in the wreckage of the vehicle. The ear-ring was originally believed to have been lost in the aftermath of the accident on August 31. The Press Association is reporting police sources as saying the ear-ring has been discovered in the Mercedes' dashboard by scientific experts at a laboratory near Paris. The Princess died alongside her companion, Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul in the accident in a tunnel in central Paris. The criminal investigation into the cause of the crash is continuing.



Princess Diana Was The Target


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Princess Diana Was The Target

Princess Diana Was The Target


British judge seen "no evidence" Diana was murdered 

 LONDON (Reuters) - The judge investigating the death of Princess Diana said on Monday she had not  seen "a shred of evidence" to back claims that she had been murdered. Coronor Elizabeth Butler-Sloss  was responding to a request from lawyers representing Mohamed al Fayed, whose son Dodi died alongside Diana in a Paris car crash 10 years ago, to delay a long awaited inquest into the their deaths.
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Comprehensive background on the circles implicated in the murder of Princess Diana can be found in EIR's 1997 Special Report,  The True Story Behind the Fall of the House of Windsor.

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New holes in cover-up of Diana murder plot

Shortly after midnight, on Aug. 30-31, 1997, David Laurent, an off-duty senior French police official,
 was driving alone in his car on the right bank of the Seine River, heading toward the Place de l'Alma tunnel where, moments later, Diana Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul would die in a car crash. As he drove, Laurent was passed by a speeding white Fiat Uno, according to accounts he provided nine months ago to French Criminal Brigade police probing the Diana crash. As he approached the tunnel, Laurent noticed that the Fiat Uno that had sped by him, was now crawling along in the right traffic lane, almost at a standstill, just before the tunnel entrance.

Although the behavior of the Fiat driver was a bit bizarre, Laurent drove on. It was, after all, Saturday night on the final weekend of the summer, and there were a lot of strange goings-on on the streets of Paris. Less than a moment later, however, Laurent heard a loud explosion from inside the tunnel, as he was driving a short distance ahead.

It was not until the next morning that Laurent realized that the explosion he had heard from inside the tunnel was the crash that claimed the lives of Diana and her companions. And it was not until several weeks later that police forensic tests confirmed that the crash had been caused by a collision between the Mercedes 280-S carrying Diana, Fayed, Paul, and bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash, and a Fiat Uno. Within hours of the crash, police at the scene had gathered up evidence--a side mirror and fragments of a tail light--suggesting that a two-car collision had occurred. A police sketch, drawn at the crash site, labeled a section of the tunnel the "collision zone." Several witnesses, interviewed during the first week after the crash, had described a small hatchback car, cutting in front of the Mercedes at the tunnel entrance, jamming its breaks inside the tunnel, fleeing the crash scene, and so on.

But, until Laurent's critical piece of the story became public in early June, the role of the Fiat had remained ambiguous--despite the fact that the car and its driver have disappeared. Was the missing Fiat tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was it critical to the most spectacular vehicular homicide in history?

Laurent's description of the Fiat, speeding to a spot near the tunnel entrance, less than a minute ahead of Diana's car, which was under chase from several other cars and motorcycles, strongly suggests the latter possibility.

For reasons yet unexplained, Laurent's crucial eyewitness account was withheld from the chief investigating magistrate, Hervé Stephan, for months.

Tampering with evidence

This is not the first time that the French police in charge of the investigation have tampered with evidence. Within hours of the crash, French police had told reporters that the Mercedes carrying Diana had been travelling at speeds of more than 120 miles per hour. How did they know? They told reporters that the speedometer of the mangled Mercedes had been frozen at more than 120 mph. EIR investigators determined that the French "leak" had to be a lie. Daimler Benz safety experts had told EIR reporters that, in any crash, the speedometer immediately goes back to zero. Two weeks later, the French police "corrected" the error; but this time, the media scarcely reported the correction. Similarly, French police had lied to reporters that Diana had been pinned in the rear compartment of the Mercedes, and saying that this was why it took so long to get her into an ambulance and to a hospital. Photographic evidence and eyewitness accounts later proved that it, too, was a premeditated lie by the French police.

In the case of the Laurent testimony, sources tell EIR that the police have claimed that they have withheld certain vital evidence from Magistrate Stephan, to avoid the information falling into the hands of the attorneys for the paparazzi. The police allegedly claimed that their investigation "would be jeopardized" if the paparazzi were to learn crucial details.

The Laurent revelation, which was leaked to the London Daily Mirror on June 4 by a well-placed French police source, was not the only new piece of evidence to emerge in early June. On June 3, the British independent television network ITV aired a one-hour investigative report, "Diana: The Secrets Behind the Crash," that seriously discredits French police claims that driver Henri Paul was drunk at the time of the crash.

Carbon monoxide found in Paul's blood

The assertion that Paul was drunk and high on two prescription drugs is pivotal to the ongoing effort, by the French government and the British establishment, to cast the crash as nothing more than a case of reckless, drunk driving. The claim that Paul had blood alcohol levels three times the legal limit at the time of the crash, was based solely on tests conducted by French coroners within hours of the crash. Independent forensic experts, including Dr. Peter Vanesis of the University of Glasgow, who reviewed the autopsy report, had harsh criticisms of the post mortem on numerous technical grounds.

The ITV report revealed that the forensic tests also showed a near-lethal level of carbon monoxide as well. EIR has independently learned that it was a separate toxicological test on Paul's blood sample, that revealed a carbon monoxide level of more than 30% at the time of the crash.

Yet, Dodi Fayed had no carbon monoxide in his blood. Is it possible that Paul could have had high levels of alcohol, traces of two prescription drugs, and toxic levels of carbon monoxide in his blood at the moment of the crash, and yet Fayed had no carbon monoxide present? Not if the carbon monoxide was inside the passenger cabin of the Mercedes.

Furthermore, if Paul had been somehow poisoned with carbon monoxide sometime prior to getting behind the wheel of the Mercedes, experts interviewed by ITV say he would have shown obvious signs, such as dizziness, loss of balance, loss of depth perception, and an unbearable, throbbing pain in his temple. Security camera video footage of Paul, taken in the lobby of the Ritz Hotel between 9 p.m. and midnight, and aired in the ITV documentary, clearly showed that Paul had none of the tell-tale signs of being drunk or suffering from the effects of carbon monoxide.

In a live television interview, aired one hour after the ITV broadcast, the documentary's host, Nicholas Owen, stated that he believed that the blood sample used in the post mortem was probably not taken from Paul. There were a dozen other corpses in the Paris city morgue at the time that Paul was brought in. This startling conclusion by Owen, adds further weight to EIR's charge that the French police--as distinct from chief investigating Magistrate Stephan--have been running a vicious cover-up of the events surrounding the crash.

The ITV documentary also cited several eyewitness accounts that a powerful burst of light inside the tunnel, seconds before the crash, may have blinded Paul. Owen showed a commercially produced anti-personnel laser, that he purchased in a Paris shop for $300, to buttress the possibility that such a device was used in the vehicular attack.

EIR Counterintelligence Director Jeffrey Steinberg appeared along with Owen and a half-dozen other investigators and expert analysts on the nationally televised interview show. Details of that broadcast and the vortex of media controversy, sparked by the ITV show and a second documentary, aired on June 4 on Channel Four TV in Britain, will appear in a forthcoming EIR (see also, the Editorial in this issue).

In a move that promises to raise even more questions about what happened in the Paris tunnel on Aug. 31, 1997, Magistrate Stephan convened an extraordinary group interrogation, or "confrontation," on June 5, at the Justice Ministry in Paris. Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi's father and a civil party to the case, was invited to participate, as were a dozen eyewitnesses to the crash. The nine paparazzi who stand to be prosecuted for manslaughter and interference in the rescue effort, were also interrogated by Stephan. Details of what took place are not yet available.








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Diana, cause of death: ambulance ride which took one hour to travel 6 kilometers, 4 miles, to hospital. Why has no one focused on this platform of inquiry?

  1. Assuming driver, Henri Paul, was at fault due to intoxication, accept the reality that Princess Diana was not dead after the accident. She was very much alive and talking.
  2. The hospital to which she was taken, Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, was 4 miles (6 kilometers) from the accident, occurring after midnight on a holiday weekend, with many away and the city streets quiet.
  3. Accept the reality that there has been no focus by the media on the at minimum, one hour, ambulance ride to travel 4 miles.
  4. Accept the reality that the time she slipped into the throes of death was during the one hour plus ambulance ride to the hospital.
  5. Le Parisien and Reuters reported that during the ambulance trip, the ambulance stopped to give her a massive injection of adrenaline.
  6. Le Parisien and Reuters further reported that the Interior Minister, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, and the police chief for Paris, France, Phillippe Massoni, two of the most powerful figures in the land, were mystified about the whereabouts of the ambulance due to its failure to timely reach the hospital.
  7. Assuming that ambulances in Paris, France in 1997 have radios or phones, answer why two men, among the most powerful in France, couldn't pick up a telephone and get an answer to the mystery.
  8. Further, consider whether the ambulance was sent without a police escort, and, if so, why.
  9. Subsequently the hospital asserted Diana received no injection of adrenaline during the ambulance ride. Was she treated at the hospital, upon her arrival, without full knowledge of what transpired during the ambulance ride? What did transpire? At the hospital was she (again) injected with adrenaline? Who was on the ambulance? What happened during an inordinate one hour trip with a VIP on board?
  10. Why isn't the media actively and aggressively pursuing this important matter? If a parent found out it took one hour for an ambulance with his or her child to travel four miles after midnight to a hospital, would the parent be justified in being quite angry and entitled to know what happened. If that child was Prince William, would the focus of the inquiry be different than it apparently is with Diana? Would the English newspapers, and others throughout the world, declare: 'One Hour to Get to the Hospital!'

CONCLUSION: Based on the above, one can fairly assert that the death of Princess Diana may have its nexus more to the ambulance ride and the treatment during that ride than to the accident itself. With billions of people throughout the planet interested in her death and the cause thereof, it is a deep mystery of why the focus of investigators and media circumvent this critical area of inquiry, which paradoxically seemed to be a mystery to the French Interior Minister and the Police Chief of Paris as well. Our mystery ties in as to why a VIP may have been traveling without a police escort in an ambulance taking, without acceptable explanation, one hour to get to a hospital. The answers have been to transport the injured Diana safely and to "avoid bumps." In that case, it seems every other ambulance throughout the world operates on a different basis, in recognizing a need to get an injured person quickly to a hospital; here, where a team of doctors, awaiting Diana's arrival, may have saved her. To our minds, and the minds of any reasonable man or woman, the one hour trip is inexcusable and carries compelling questions which demand detailed answers.

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September 14, 1997
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Al Qaeda Threat to Kill Harry In Iraq.


 Terrorists have vowed to kidnap or kill Prince Harry when he fights in Iraq, it is reported. 
The 22-year-old is due to be sent out in May with colleagues from the Blues and Royals regiment. Threats have been posted on extremist websites since his deployment was revealed, The Sun says. One message said: "Prince Harry will be sent to Iraq to be killed by Muslims." Another added: "May Allah give him what he deserves - like his fellow crusaders." Army officials fear the Prince will be paraded on television if he is kidnapped. 
A Blues and Royals source told the paper: "Officially Harry is being treated just like any other soldier but in reality everyone knows how desperate the insurgents out there will be to get their hands on him."
 Internet terror expert Neil Doyle was quoted as saying: "Harry would be the ultimate prize for one of these insurgent groups. "He would be worth his weight in gold in propaganda terms if killed or captured." From the end of May, the prince will be patrolling in Scimitar armoured reconnaissance vehicles in Maysan. Harry will this week pose as a hooded hostage in a special training exercise, the paper says. 
His men will use tear gas and stun grenades to free him. More than 100 UK soldiers have been killed since the 2003 invasion.


British judge seen "no evidence" Diana was murdered 

Inquest Into Diana's Death Postponed

The inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, has been postponed until October 1. The coroner, Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, has granted the extra time in order to allow more evidence to be gathered. It is understood she agreed to the delay with some reluctance. In her opening statement at the pre-inquest hearing, she said: "I would be very sad if I was obliged to delay the start of the main proceedings for another six months. I feel that would be very, very hard on the families." However, the move was in line with a suggestion from Mohamed Al Fayed's lawyer, Michael Mansfield, who said there was a "massive amount of work" to be done. Sky News royal correspondent Katharine Witty said that although nearly 10 years had passed since the Paris car crash that claimed the lives of Diana, Dodi Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul, more time was needed to gather certain pieces of evidence. Among them is a computer-generated recreation of the route taken by their car created by the Metropolitan Police using the very latest technology. However, she said Princes William and Harry may be disappointed with the ruling. A letter read out on their behalf at the start of the proceedings said they wanted them to "not only be open, fair and transparent but... (to) move swiftly to a conclusion." "I don't think anyone will be happy at the delay," Witty said. "It means the 10th anniversary of their deaths will pass without an inquest having taken place." She added that more details would be made public at the next hearing on March 21. 

'My investigation should end all the conspiracy theories about Diana's death'

Sir John the end of the matter


By Rajeev Syal

Last Updated: 1:14am BST 01/08/2004


Sir John Stevens, Britain's most senior policeman, has urged Mohamed Fayed to accept 
the 
findings of his inquiry into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Telegraph shortly before he steps down as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir John said that he was determined that his exhaustive inquiry should be the final word on the conspiracy theories that have raged around the circumstances of the princess's fatal car accident seven years ago. Mr Fayed, the Egyptian businessman whose son Dodi died alongside the princess, has repeatedly insisted that the couple were murdered in a plot by "the British establishment". Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler, has fuelled the conspiracy theories by releasing a letter purportedly written by the princess shortly before her death in which she said that she feared for her life. The Princess of Wales, 36, and Dodi Fayed, 42, were killed on August 31, 1997 when their Mercedes crashed in a Paris underpass. Their driver, Henri Paul, also died. Sir John said that his inquiry, Operation Paget, would examine every theory thoroughly and insisted that all parties, including Mr Fayed, should accept his conclusions. 
"We will do everything in our power to ensure that once and for all, the whole aspect of this particular episode has been investigated as thoroughly as necessary. "I shall be giving evidence to the coroner's court as will some of the officers who are working with me. Then I think people will then have to say, one way or the other, that that's the end of the matter," he said. Sir John, who launched the inquiry in April and has a team of 10 full-time detectives, said that he would personally oversee interviews with officers from MI6, the intelligence service, and MI5, the security service. Mr Fayed, who has met Sir John, has accused members of the security services of playing a part in the fatal crash. "The allegations regarding MI5 and MI6 I will be dealing with myself," Sir John said. The inquiry may go on longer than expected, said Sir John, because of Mr Fayed's continued attempts to question the findings of the French investigation into the princess's death. This concluded that the accident resulted from a powerful car being driven by an intoxicated driver and rejected other theories. "The French appeal court has found in certain aspects in Mr Fayed's favour and has asked the French authorities and the examining magistrate to look at some other aspects of the inquiry. So we will be very much dictated by where the French authorities are in terms of their inquiry," he said. Sir John, 61, spoke to The Telegraph last week at the launch of Soul in the City, a Christian initiative to encourage 15,000 youngsters to clean up Britain's inner-cities. In a back room of Uxbridge police station, Middlesex, the commissioner said that he had a deep interest in Christianity. At times he sought spiritual guidance from clergymen and God, he said. "I do pray. "I find that I have prayed all through my life, usually in situations when I have been up against it. I have found that a chatter through issues sometimes with the local priest would see me through rather than going to see a psychologist or psychiatrist," he said. Sir John's mood darkened as he discussed the behaviour of some on Britain's streets, and a 160 per cent rise in assaults on policemen in London over the past year. "When I go out with officers, it is just extraordinary how youngsters are completely drunk and think they can abuse, assault and spit at police officers and get away with it. "They are not going to get away with it. They are going to get arrested and be put in front of the courts," he said. He agreed with the prime minister's suggestion that attitudes fostered during the 1960s were partly to blame for a breakdown in values such as respect for the law. "I began in 1962 as a policeman. I think there is something about the Sixties having some kind of effect on the permissive side of things," he said. Respect for police had been whittled away by a series of scandals dating back to the same period. "I was there at the planting of the bricks on the Greek visit [when a detective was caught with stones in his pockets that he planned to plant on demonstrators against the King of Greece] . . . some of those cases together with a more easy-going attitude towards the taking of drugs had some effect," he said. Sir John retires in January after five years in charge of Britain's largest police force. Friends have hinted that he has clashed with David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, but the commissioner sidestepped such questions. "David Blunkett is a particularly robust individual, and what you see is what you get. I think most people would say that in relation to me. I would argue my corner very strongly if necessary, he respects that," he said. Sir John's one regret as he nears the end of a distinguished career has been failing to find and convict the killers of Damilola Taylor, the young boy stabbed to death in Peckham, south London, four years ago. The Commissioner still hopes that the boy's killers will be caught, even if it takes years to track them down. "Knowing Damilola's parents so well, and having such regard for them, we not only owe it to justice but we owe it to them to ensure that the people who committed that horrendous crime are bought to book," said Sir John. 


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  • UK to unfold Diana's mysterious death Rashmee Z Ahmed  [ 29 Aug, 2003 1827hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
  • LONDON: With fateful timing, exactly 48 hours before Diana and Dodi's sixth death anniversary on Sunday, the world has been told it might finally be on the verge of solving the most famous and mysterious car crash in history. On Friday, the British authorities announced a one-million-pound inquest into Dodi's death "sooner rather than later". It is thought effectively to constitute the first official public inquiry on British soil into Diana's death. The inquest, long delayed by legal and police procedure, is a requirement under British law when a body is returned to the UK following a death abroad. The tragic couple has not had an inquest so far and there had been some speculation a joint inquiry may be announced next week. Dodi's father, the London businessman Mohammed al-Fayed, has long campaigned for a public inquiry, claiming the crash was no accident. Despite millions of websites with conspiracy theories to match, there is little public clarity about the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of the most photographed woman in the world, Diana, Princess of Wales. The only investigation so far has been conducted in secret by a French judge, who issued a 6,000-page report that was never published. A spokesman for the south-east English county council of Surrey, where Dodi lived and his inquest will be held, said there were "no plans" for a joint hearing. Even so, any inquest into the car crash is expected to delve deep. It is expected to summon – and hear – at least 10 key witnesses the world has not formally interviewed so far. They include Francois and Valerie Levistre, who claimed to have seen a "big flash" coming out of the tunnel just before the crash; Brenda Wells, who claimed she was prevented by a motorbike from going down the crucial approach road to the crash-site ahead of the crash and Gary Hunter, who said he saw two vehicles race out of the tunnel, including a mysterious dark car. The crumpled Mercedes in which Diana and Dodi made their last journey, is likely to be shipped from Paris to England and examined for the first time here. The death in a Paris underpass on August 31, 1997, has always remained a black hole of suspicion and controversy. For years, there have been frenzied allegations she was assassinated by British intelligence agencies due to her choice of an Arab Muslim lover. Henri Paul, the couple's driver that night, was alleged by a former British intelligence officer to have been in the pay of MI6. Diana's two sons, the Princes William and Harry, are said to be keen on an inquest.


  • Diana 'foresaw death crash'

    By Robert Jobson and Richard Holliday, Evening Standard 20.10.03

  • Princess Diana predicted her death in a car crash only months before the Paris tragedy which killed her. The extraordinary revelation emerged today as a handwritten letter she gave her butler Paul Burrell was made public for the first time. The letter says: “They’re planning ‘an accident’ in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry.” In the letter Diana names who she believed was plotting to kill her. But for legal reasons the identity cannot be revealed. The claims will reignite the conspiracy theories that have surrounded Diana since she died with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed in the Alma tunnel in Paris in August 1997. The revelations are made in Mr Burrell’s new book, A Royal Duty, which is being serialised in the Daily Mirror. It comes amid continuing controversy about the failure to stage a full inquest in Britain into Diana’s death. Although it has been six years since the tragedy, only in the last few months has Royal Coroner Michael Burgess agreed to a full public investigation. He was expected to name a date within days, but it has now emerged he will not be drawn on a timescale. Today’s revelations are certain to impact on the relationship of Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. They pose a setback for the couple just as they are becoming increasingly accepted by the Queen, the public and the establishment and as a forthcoming marriage was being seen as a more realistic prospect. Diana gave Mr Burrell the letter in October 1996 just 10 months before the accident as “insurance” for the future. He claims it has been part of “the burden I have carried since the Princess’s death.” He adds: “Deciding what to do with it has been a source of much soulsearching.” But Mr Burrell, who is set to make millions from his book, is bound to be accused of cashing in on Diana’s memory. Last year he was cleared of stealing her personal possessions after the dramatic intervention of the Queen just before he was to give evidence. Harrods owner Mohamed Fayed, father of Dodi, has always claimed his son and Diana were killed in a Secret Service plot. He has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on a private investigation to try to prove his conspiracy theory.

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  • Patricia Cornwell 'solves mystery' of Diana car crash

  •  By Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter

  • Patricia Cornwell: 'primary information has been ignored' Patricia Cornwell, the world's best-selling living crime writer, has uncovered new evidence during a six-month investigation into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The author, who is understood to have gained access to officials directly involved in the autopsy on the Princess's body, believes that the new material will "lay some rumours and errors to rest". It is believed that she has been able to disprove misguided speculation that the Princess was pregnant with her third child when she died. In an interview with The Telegraph yesterday, Cornwell said that her inquiries had been "especially painful" and had left her with a respect The Princess of Wales died six years ago in a car crash in Paris which also claimed the lives of Dodi Fayed, her boyfriend, and Henri Paul, their driver. Trevor Rees-Jones, Mr Fayed's bodyguard, was the only survivor of the high-speed crash in the Alma tunnel in the early hours of August 31, 1997. 


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  • Patricia Cornwell 'solves mystery' of Diana car crash

  • By Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter


  • Patricia Cornwell: 'primary information has been ignored'

    Patricia Cornwell, the world's best-selling living crime writer, has uncovered new evidence during a six-month investigation into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The author, who is understood to have gained access to officials directly involved in the autopsy on the Princess's body, believes that the new material will "lay some rumours and errors to rest". It is believed that she has been able to disprove misguided speculation that the Princess was pregnant with her third child when she died. In an interview with The Telegraph yesterday, Cornwell said that her inquiries had been "especially painful" and had left her with a respect The Princess of Wales died six years ago in a car crash in Paris which also claimed the lives of Dodi Fayed, her boyfriend, and Henri Paul, their driver. Trevor Rees-Jones, Mr Fayed's bodyguard, was the only survivor of the high-speed crash in the Alma tunnel in the early hours of August 31, 1997.

  • Patricia Cornwell, the world's best-selling living crime writer, has uncovered new evidence during a six-month investigation into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The author, who is understood to have gained access to officials directly involved in the autopsy on the Princess's body, believes that the new material will "lay some rumours and errors to rest". It is believed that she has been able to disprove misguided speculation that the Princess was pregnant with her third child when she died. In an interview with The Telegraph yesterday, Cornwell said that her inquiries had been "especially painful" and had left her with a respect The Princess of Wales died six years ago in a car crash in Paris which also claimed the lives of Dodi Fayed, her boyfriend, and Henri Paul, their driver. Trevor Rees-Jones, Mr Fayed's bodyguard, was the only survivor of the high-speed crash in the Alma tunnel in the early hours of August 31, 1997. 
    inquest is due to be held in Britain but Michael Burgess, the coroner for the Royal Household, has not yet set a date for it. Herve Stephan, the French judge who conducted an investigation into the crash, has, however, blamed Mr Paul, the driver, saying that alcohol, prescription drugs and the high speed of the vehicle had all played a role. "I decided to look into the death of Princess Diana because it seems that the past six years have brought only more questions, rumours and baffling blanks," said Cornwell. The writer made her name with her novels, but has also earned a reputation for her investigations into real-life crimes. Her findings have sometimes been controversial: two years ago she became "100 per cent" certain that Walter Sickert, the Victorian artist was East End serial kiler, Jack the Ripper. In America, where she was born in Miami, she is known as the "high priestess of crime" and her novels - full of serial killers and gruesome autopsies - have earned her an estimated $100 million (£71 million). Cornwell conducted her latest inquiries sympathetically. She was aware that such an investigation could be distressing for the Princess's friends and family, particularly her sons, Princes William and Harry. "I am guided by integrity and compassion, although seeking the truth isn't always comfortable for anyone involved. I have to say that this investigation was especially painful, the scope of its tragedy beyond measure, the losses devastating to the entire world. "I had no preconceptions, but was simply baffled by every detail I'd heard. Some information made no sense. The investigation will direct an objective beam on the most serious questions and conflicts, and reveal facts about them that have never before been addressed this thoroughly and accurately. "I have been shocked by how much primary information has been ignored and how much erroneous information has been chronically recycled. One would think there was nothing new to say about this case, but that couldn't have proved further from the truth." As a novelist, Cornwell ignored advice that "nobody wants to know about the morgue". In 1990, she published Postmortem, the first of 12 novels based on the fictional heroine Kay Scarpetta, a forensic pathologist from Virginia who tracks down serial sex killers. Cornwell has been described as an obsessive seeker after truth. She spent $6 million (£3.75 million) of her own money investigating the killings of Jack the Ripper. She bought 32 of Sickert's paintings - which sell for more than £30,000 each - and even cut up one in her search for clues. She bought the artist's desk to test it for DNA and flew forensic scientists from America to London to sift through archives of letters. Her book on the case, Portrait of a Killer, currently tops the best-selling non-fiction paperback list in Britain. Cornwell, who spent several weeks in Britain last month pursuing her latest inquiries, refused to disclose whom she interviewed about the Princess's death, or the full details of her findings. She did, however, give an insight into one of her discoveries: "Forensic scientists have indicated that Henri Paul never even hit the brakes [before the car crashed]," she said. The programme is likely to address questions about whether the Princess of Wales received the best possible medical care after the crash and whether her life could have been saved. Mohamed Fayed, the Egyptian owner of Harrods and the father of Dodi, has co-operated with the crime writer for the programme. There is certainly no guarantee, however, that Cornwell will concur with his conspiracy theories over the Paris crash, including his bizarre claim that the Royal Family played a role. "People who want me to advocate one theory or another won't be pleased," Cornwell said. Those close to the crime writer believe "I have a number of important interviews with very significant witnesses who have never before addressed this case publicly, " Cornwell said. "In addition I spoke to official witnesses whose identities - and even some of their information - are too sensitive to reveal." She added: "My mission as a literary investigator with roots in journalism is to bring about justice - even if there is no one to arrest as in the case of Jack the Ripper - and to allow healing, as in the cases of those left behind who either anguish over not knowing what really happened or are wounded repeatedly by theories of misinformation, mistakes or even lies. "My tools are primary sources, medicine, science and arduous hit-the-pavement investigation." She hopes that those who were close to the Princess will welcome her findings. "I sincerely hope that the show will lay some rumours and errors to rest, and I believe it will. Theories, however, will never entirely go away."

  • Patricia Cornwell, the world's best-selling living crime writer, has uncovered new evidence during a six-month investigation into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The author, who is understood to have gained access to officials directly involved in the autopsy on the Princess's body, believes that the new material will "lay some rumours and errors to rest". It is believed that she has been able to disprove misguided speculation that the Princess was pregnant with her third child when she died. In an interview with The Telegraph yesterday, Cornwell said that her inquiries had been "especially painful" and had left her with a respect The Princess of Wales died six years ago in a car crash in Paris which also claimed the lives of Dodi Fayed, her boyfriend, and Henri Paul, their driver. Trevor Rees-Jones, Mr Fayed's bodyguard, was the only survivor of the high-speed crash in the Alma tunnel in the early hours of August 31, 1997.The inquest is due to be held in Britain but Michael Burgess, the coroner for the Royal Household, has not yet set a date for it. Herve Stephan, the French judge who conducted an investigation into the crash, has, however, blamed Mr Paul, the driver,saying that alcohol, prescription drugs and the high speed of the vehicle had all played a role."I decided to look into the death of Princess Diana because it seems that the past six years have brought only more questions, rumours and baffling blanks," said Cornwell.The writer made her name with her novels, but has also earned a reputation for her investigations into real-life crimes. Her findings have sometimes been controversial: two years ago she became "100 per cent" certain that Walter Sickert,the Victorian artist was East End serial kiler, Jack the Ripper.

    In America, where she was born in Miami, she is known as the "high priestess of crime" and her novels - full of serial killers and gruesome autopsies - have earned her an estimated $100 million (£71 million). Cornwell conducted her latest inquiries sympathetically. She was aware that such an investigation could be distressing for the Princess's friends and family, particularly her sons, Princes William and Harry. "I am guided by integrity and compassion, although seeking the truth isn't always comfortable for anyone involved. I have to say that this investigation was especially painful, the scope of its tragedy beyond measure, the losses devastating to the entire world. "I had no preconceptions, but was simply baffled by every detail I'd heard. Some information made no sense. The investigation will direct an objective beam on the most serious questions and conflicts, and reveal facts about them that have never before been addressed this thoroughly and accurately. "I have been shocked by how much primary information has been ignored and how much erroneous information has been chronically recycled. One would think there was nothing new to say about this case, but that couldn't have proved further from the truth." As a novelist, Cornwell ignored advice that "nobody wants to know about the morgue". In 1990, she published Postmortem, the first of 12 novels based on the fictional heroine Kay Scarpetta, a forensic pathologist from Virginia who tracks down serial sex killers. Cornwell has been described as an obsessive seeker after truth. She spent $6 million (£3.75 million) of her own money investigating the killings of Jack the Ripper. She bought 32 of Sickert's paintings - which sell for more than £30,000 each - and even cut up one in her search for clues. She bought the artist's desk to test it for DNA and flew forensic scientists from America to London to sift through archives of letters. Her book on the case, Portrait of a Killer, currently tops the best-selling non-fiction paperback list in Britain. Cornwell, who spent several weeks in Britain last month pursuing her latest inquiries, refused to disclose whom she interviewed about the Princess's death, or the full details of her findings. She did, however, give an insight into one of her discoveries: "Forensic scientists have indicated that Henri Paul never even hit the brakes [before the car crashed]," she said. The programme is likely to address questions about whether the Princess of Wales received the best possible medical care after the crash and whether her life could have been saved. Mohamed Fayed, the Egyptian owner of Harrods and the father of Dodi, has co-operated with the crime writer for the programme. There is certainly no guarantee, however, that Cornwell will concur with his conspiracy theories over the Paris crash, including his bizarre claim that the Royal Family played a role. "People who want me to advocate one theory or another won't be pleased," Cornwell said. Those close to the crime writer believe "I have a number of important interviews with very significant witnesses who have never before addressed this case publicly, " Cornwell said. "In addition I spoke to official witnesses whose identities - and even some of their information - are too sensitive to reveal." She added: "My mission as a literary investigator with roots in journalism is to bring about justice - even if there is no one to arrest as in the case of Jack the Ripper - and to allow healing, as in the cases of those left behind who either anguish over not knowing what really happened or are wounded repeatedly by theories of misinformation, mistakes or even lies. "My tools are primary sources, medicine, science and arduous hit-the-pavement investigation." She hopes that those who were close to the Princess will welcome her findings. "I sincerely hope that the show will lay some rumours and errors to rest, and I believe it will. Theories, however, will never entirely go away."

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        by GORDON THOMAS

    EXPLOSIVE tapes on the secret life of Princess Diana will prove that she was pregnant and intended to marry Dodi Al Fayed, it was claimed last night. 

    American secret agents regularly monitored Diana's conversations and collated 1,000 secret documents using its "spy in the sky", the National Security Agency. 

    They were obtained by its Echelon satellite surveillance system and contain highly sensitive material including her marriage plans, her views on Prince Philip, who was known to be highly critical of her, and new details of her love affair with James Hewitt. Now, lawyers acting for Mohamed Al Fayed are trying to obtain the tapes through America's Freedom of Information Act. 

    They hope to present the evidence at Diana's inquest, which is expected to take place next year. 

    The covert monitoring was controlled from the ultra-secret NSA base at Menwith Hill in the north of England during the last weeks of Diana's affair with Dodi. 

    A spokesman for Dodi's father, Mohamed Al Fayed, the millionaire owner of Harrods, said: "Mr Al Fayed believes that those intercepts will reveal conversations in which Princess Diana discussed her engagement to Dodi and her pregnancy.




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    Diana, Princess of Wales: Did MI6 Kill Her?

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    Following Diana's sudden death in Paris, August 31, 1997 many doubts have surrounded the official story of the paparazzi chasing a drunk driver at speed toward an inevitable and tragic accident. Below you will find an examination of the evidence surrounding the number one conspiracy theory- MI6 killed Diana...

    The Two Main Theories

    a) One or more rogue "cells" in the British secret service construct and carry out a plot to kill Diana.

    b) An official campaign by MI6 to assasinate Diana, sanctioned by elements of the establishment.

    The Possible Motives

    a) The rogue elements in MI5 (National security) or MI6 (International security) decide that Di is a threat to the throne, and therefore the stability of the state. They take her out.

    b) With similar motives to the possible rogue elements, the official campaign is driven by a fear of Diana's possible to conversion to Islam (Dodi being a Muslim) and the implication on the Church and State were the two Princes, William and Harry, to follow their mother's lead.

    The Evidence

    Circumstantial it maybe, but put together is it capable of raising sufficient doubt that this was an accident?
    Below are some of the questions and doubts that are raised by the investigation so far

     




    The rapid disposal of the bodies of Diana and Dodi. Diana 
    had no post mortem prior to burial in Althorp. Victims of sudden death require a post mortem by law in the UK.
    The missing white Fiat Uno: With such a large-scale investigation by French authorities could only secret agents have evaded the police's net around Paris? We know the car hit the Mercedes used by Di and Dodi, thanks to traceable paint marks on the Benz. Witnesses refer to the car lurching around the road at varying speeds as both it and the Merc entered the tunnel of death.
    Henri Paul, driver of the Limo. The mis-information surrounding this key figure is enormous. First he was said to be driving at up to 120 mph, recent reports by professional crash investigators suggest 60 mph, even less on impact.
    Was he really drunk? It is accepted that he had two Ricard drinks at the Ritz, but no other evidence has emerged to support this claim, beyond questionable results from a blood test from his corpse. Why questionable? Because it is common for the alcohol level to rise in bodies after death regardless of consumption. The test also showed a very high level of carbon monoxide (20 per cent) in his blood. Experts say this would have incapacitated him before he set off on his fatal journey, and yet the hotel's video evidence shows him walking around and talking normally. An alcoholic? Well , as a pilot, he passed a rigorous health check two days before the accident. His liver showed no signs of abuse on post-mortem.
    Then there is the question of the multiple bank accounts Paul held, with balances showing income far in excess of his 20 000 UKP salary as acting head of security at the Ritz. Some friends have suggested he was a long term "sleeper" agent for a secret service agency, almost certainly French intelligence.
    Trevor Rees Jones (Fayed bodyguard)- The only survivor. One time member of Her Majesty's armed forces, rumours suggest he may have been a "sleeper" agent for MI5 or MI6, particularly as the establishment were keen to keep tabs on Mohammed Al Fayed. Why was he the only person in the car to wear a safety-belt?
    Explosion, followed by Bang- Immediately after the crash news was broadcast, witnesses appeared on US TV saying that they heard an explosion or bang before they heard the car crash. Was this a gunshot, or a bomb?
    White Light- Other witnesses describe an extremely bright white light, much stronger than a photographer's flashbulb, illuminating the tunnel before the crash sounds. Powerful anti-personnel flash-guns are available to private citizens for as little as 250 UKP. The security forces have access to much stronger tools. All of which are capable of blinding a victim for several minutes - easily enough to cause a fatal crash. Crucially there would be no physical evidence left for investigators.
    James Hewitt- Former lover of Diana claims he was warned on several occasions by elements of the security forces and a member of the royal family to stop seeing the Princess or his health would suffer! Hewitt has been exposed previously as being very willing to exploit a situation for his own ends, as in the publication of a sleazy book about Diana to which he contributed.
    Paparazzi- Initially blamed for the crash, most witnesses seem to agree that the bikes were not close enough to the Mercedes in the tunnel to have actually interfered with its progress.

     

    NB These are just a selection of matters which cause concern for investigators. Many other points are raised by the "accident" but for reasons of space are not dealt with here.

    Conclusions

    There are many questions that arise out of this incident. The most plausible explanation still appears to be a tragic accident - Paul who was driving to some degree under the influence of alcohol, tried to accelerate away from the pursuing photographers, lost control going into the tunnel (after the slight curve in the road, and maybe as the Uno impeded his progress) and crashed into the tunnel's thirteenth pillar.

    This maybe the most plausible explanation, however, we feel that without dramatic new evidence , such as the Uno and driver turning up, this will never be certain.

    While there remains doubt as to whether it was an accident it is reasonable to question what the possible alternatives are. The most plausible of these has to involve members of the UK establishment and secret service as few others had anything to lose from Diana and Dodi's relationship. To keep such a plot secret we believe it would have to be the work of a small, isolated cell working under its own auspices within the system.

    Former agents have told of a plot to destabilise the then Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson in the Seventies. Wilson did indeed resign from office, shocking political commentators at the time. We know that our intelligence service keeps records on Peace campaigners and Union officials for the "threat" of being radicals.

    If the service really does operate as efficiently as James Bond films lead us to believe, which we doubt very strongly, then there would be nothing to stop them orchestrating Diana's death AND making it appear to be an accident.

    But as yet there is clearly more evidence to support an accident than a secret plot. For us though, the jury is still out.





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    Diana Assassination Conspiracy:Ex-MI6 Agent Raided

    by DAILY 

    A raid on the home of a former British spy was sensationally linked to the Princess Diana inquiry last night. French secret servicemen and police stormed a property owned by renegade MI6 agent Richard Tomlinson. They arrested the 42-year-old ex-spy before seizing computer files and personal papers from his home in Cannes on the French Riviera. Tomlinson’s career put him in a position to give compelling insights into the thinking of Britain’s spymasters about Diana in the years before her death. His position at the heart of the spy network gave him a unique view into what lay behind the Paris crash which killed the Princess, her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed and driv er Henri Paul in August 1997. Tomlinson’s yacht, which was moored near his flat, was also "turned upside down," according to those involved in the raid last week. The former secret service agent, who has spent time in prison for writing about his spying experiences, is understood to have twice met team members of the Lord Stevens inquiry into the death of Diana and assisted them.

    Diana Assassination Conspiracy:Ex-MI6 Agent Raidedby DAILY EXPRESS
    Diana Connection:Ex-MI6 Richard Tomlinson Arrestedby DAILY EXPRESS
    Did MI6 & MI5 Orchestrate Princess Diana's Death?by BRIAN DESBOROUGH
    Princess Diana: Did Prince Philip Order Her Death?by URI DOWBENKO
    Princess Diana: Did MI6 Stage 'Car Accident' Plot?by RICHARD TOMLINSON
    Royal Conspiracy: Princess Diana Names Her Killerby URI DOWBENKO

     


  • New query over Diana's  
  • June 15 2003
  • British coroner is to re-open an inquiry into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, a British newspaper said today. The Sunday Mirror today reported the car in which Princess Diana and her friend Dodi Al-Fayed were killed in 1997, currently held at a police station in a Paris suburb, could be sent to England for examination. According to the weekly, coroner Michael Burgess has decided to re-open an inquiry into the death of Diana who divorced the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, in 1996. "For almost six years the whereabouts of the VIP limousine - and the answers to why and how the couple died - have remained a mystery," the tabloid wrote. On August 31, 1997, a Mercedes 280 with tabloid photographers in pursuit slammed into a concrete pillar in the Alma underpass in Paris at high speed, killing Diana and her companion. 

  • Egyptian-born tycoon Mohammed Al-Fayed, Dodi's father, said he was pleased that the crash was to be re-investigated."The remains of the vehicle have been protected by a court order and should be examined byBritish police vehicle examiners," he told the paper. "It will mean we can find out for certain what happened. It should resolve once and for all two key issues: whether the speedo was jammed and whether there was a collision with another car," he added. French judges concluded that the crash was due to the fact the driver, who also died, had been drinking and the car was travelling too fast whether the speedo was jammed and whether there was a collision with another car," he added.

  • French judges concluded that the crash was due to the fact the driver, who also died, had been drinking and the car was travelling too fast
    New query over Diana's death

  • A British coroner is to re-open an inquiry into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, a British newspaper said today. The Sunday Mirror today reported the car in which Princess Diana and her friend Dodi Al-Fayed were killed in 1997, currently held at a police station in a Paris suburb, could be sent to England for examination. According to the weekly, coroner Michael Burgess has decided to re-open an inquiry into the death of Diana who divorced the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, in 1996. "For almost six years the whereabouts of the VIP limousine - and the answers to why and how the couple died - have remained a mystery," the tabloid wrote. On August 31, 1997, a Mercedes 280 with tabloid photographers in pursuit slammed into a concrete pillar in the Alma underpass in Paris at high speed, killing Diana and her companion.


    Harare treason witness in Diana fraud

    Jacqui Goddard

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  • A FORMER Israeli intelligence agent at the centre of treason accusations against Zimbabwe’s opposition leader is being investigated by British police for allegedly attempting to sell false information about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, for £500,000. Ari Ben-Menashe, whose hotly disputed "evidence" in the Zimbabwe case could send the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, to the gallows, is accused of trying to convince Mohammed al-Fayed, owner of Harrods, into paying for information three years ago. He is said to have approached Mr Fayed in 1999 with claims he had evidence the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, had plotted to kill Diana. The princess died in a Paris car crash in August 1997, along with Mr Fayed’s son Dodi. "Subsequent investigations established that the Mossad conspiracy theory was nonsense and the matter was reported to police," said Mr Fayed’s spokesman, Chester Stern. News of the alleged deception, which Scotland Yard has confirmed is still under investigation, casts fresh doubts over the reliability of Mr Ben-Menashe’s evidence in the case against Mr Tsvangirai. That case centres on a grainy and dubiously edited video purporting to show Mr Tsvangirai discussing a plot with Mr Ben-Menashe to assassinate President Robert Mugabe. Mr Tsvangirai, whose popularity had threatened to unseat Mr Mugabe at elections in March, denies the accusations. The opposition leader claims he was set up by Mr Ben-Menashe, who has admitted to being a long-standing friend of Mr Mugabe . The shadow justice minister, David Coltart, said yesterday: "We are fast building a strong picture of Ben-Menashe not exactly being a man of good standing." The Canadian government yesterday confirmed that an inquiry into if Mr Tsvangirai might have a case to answer in Canada for hatching the alleged murder conspiracy with Mr Ben-Menashe in Montreal has come to nothing. "The investigation carried out by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been closed because I understand that all investigative avenues were exhausted," said a foreign affairs spokeswoman, Marie-Christine Lilkoff. It has also been claimed that Mr Ben-Menashe’s Canadian-based consultancy firm, Dickens & Madson, played a role in illegally trading weapons for diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A former Mossad operative, Mr Ben-Menashe was also accused of lying under oath during the Iran-Contra affair in the United States and was dubbed a "notorious and chronic liar" by the Jerusalem Post after selling false stories about Israel’s atomic weapons. 

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    MI6 Murdered the People's Princess

    Open Letter from Mohammed Al Fayed



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    Princess Diana










    Most people are profoundly shocked, and rightly so, by the idea that Dodi and Diana were murdered. Yet it is my firm belief that Britain's racist establishment found their relationship utterly unacceptable, and so conspired with the intelligence services to have them killed. My repeated appeals for a full public inquiry in Britain into the Paris tragedy have been rejected out of hand by the prime minister, Tony Blair and the home secretary, Jack Straw but I shall never abandon my fight for disclosure of the full facts. The following open letter explains why.

    Since the 31st August 1997, the terrible day that my son Dodi and Princess Diana died in Paris, I have tried by all means that I know to get answers to the many questions left hanging in the air. I have been thwarted at every turn. The official French investigation has so far failed to resolve many key questions. The British government still refuses to hold a public inquiry. The intelligence services in France, Britain and the USA have stonewalled – though we know that intelligence services had Diana under surveillance on the fateful night in Paris. And, as we have seen only too clearly following the publication of the book by Trevor Rees-Jones (but one example), there has been a concerted campaign to discredit my attempts to get at the truth. 

    I know that I am bitterly resented by some members of the British establishment. There are those who cannot accept that an Egyptian from a modest background should have become the owner of Harrods, a shop they considered a part of their heritage. Others reckon me beyond the pale because of my part in revealing corruption in the highest places. For a few, I suspect, it is simply a matter of racism; though they would never dream of saying so in public, they despise foreigners – especially those with crinkly hair and dark skins. Behind the scenes, the extreme right-wing in Britain still wields enormous influence particularly in the press and the corridors of unelected power. In my experience these people are ruthless in their determination and will stop at nothing to achieve their ends. 










    Certainly my attempts to make progress through the official channels are blocked consistently by a brick wall of silence and secrecy.

    When I met Mr Blair in May 1999 at a reception hosted by the Muslim Council, I gave him this paper which set out my concerns and asked for his help, and a copy of this memo which I had given to the Council. I heard nothing. Then my lawyers wrote to him. Again, nothing. The same wall of silence greeted my letters to the Foreign Secretary, the Home Secretary and the Heads of MI5 and MI6. Such silence is rude and discourteous to me personally. I have given 35 years of my life to this country, paying hundreds of millions in taxes and employing tens of thousands of people. I have helped to win British firms overseas contracts worth billions of pounds. After making such a contribution to the country, I think I've earned the right to some answers. But more importantly, the people of Britain deserve answers: Diana was – in Tony Blair's words – "The People's Princess". A blanket refusal to answer legitimate questions can only fuel suspicion of foul play.

    These concerns were taken up in Parliament by the Conservative MP Charles Wardle. He did so of his own volition. In an adjournment debate in July 1999 he set out with great force and clarity the many reasons for holding a full inquiry in Britain into the Paris crash, conducted openly for all to see and follow. He requested a formal response from the Home Office; none has been forthcoming.

    I have pursued information in the United States under their Freedom of Information Act. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have confirmed that they hold 39 documents consisting of 1,056 pages of information relating to Diana and Dodi but they refuse to reveal it on the grounds of national security. My American lawyers have been fighting for access to this vital information for the last year. A court in Washington DC has ordered the CIA to hand over the documents, but they have not complied. Recently we sought a subpoena to force the production of the documents – only to have the judge rule that, under the statute which allows subpoenas to be issued in connection with foreign proceedings, he did not have jurisdiction to issue a subpoena against the federal government. We have appealed and hope to get some movement soon, but it is a very slow business. 


    The attitude of the British government was well-illustrated recently. On 27 February The Sunday Times published an article headlined "Spy agencies listened in on Diana". In this article, "former intelligence officials" confirmed to the newspaper that spy agencies in Britain and America "eavesdropped on Diana". The very next day, in response to my earlier demands for an official statement on this matter, I received a letter from the Treasury Solicitor, categorically denying any such activity by the security services, or those working on their behalf. Given that Diana was mother to the future King, and was often at odds with the Royal Family, it is frankly unbelievable that the security forces were taking no interest in her – but the official line attempts to deny the obvious.

    Stephen Dorril's Book












    According to Stephen Dorril's newly published history of Britain's overseas intelligence service, "MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations" (p788):

    "... the late Princess of Wales had clearly been under some kind of surveillance, as evidenced by the 1,050-page dossier held by the US National Security Agency detailing private telephone conversations between Diana and American friends intercepted at MI6's request ". (emphasis added)

    It is hardly surprising that my efforts to uncover the truth about the Paris crash have made me a lot of enemies. But I have been shocked at the lengths that these people will go to in their attempts to discredit me. The Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers, considered by many to be the heart of reactionary opinion in Britain, have mounted an extraordinarily vicious and sustained campaign. Since the crash they have printed a never-ending stream of hostile articles – about 150 in all – accusing me of everything from tax evasion to sexual harassment. Their fellow-travellers, The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and the London Evening Standard have joined in the fun. (For a more detailed account, see Mohamed Al Fayed and the Press). While seeking to portray me as some kind of fantasist, they show no interest themselves in establishing the facts. If they are able to prove me wrong, why don't they do so?

    The most recent attack on me was The Daily Telegraph's publication of extracts from the book "The Bodyguard's Story" by Trevor Rees-Jones. This account was, in fact, compiled by a committee and crafted by a ghostwriter. It is based substantially on the recollections of others because Rees-Jones himself has no memory of the crash itself and only partial recall of much else. He has simply been used as a vehicle to sensationalise a book which peddles the lies of those hell-bent on silencing me. And he has clearly forgotten completely about the confidentiality clause in his contract of employment with me.

    The motives behind the book are plain: they are to clear Trevor and his friend Kez Wingfield, the other bodyguard that night, of all responsibility for the tragedy and also to get "some recompense for what's happened." Everything in the book is shaped by these twin objectives of shifting the blame and selling the book. Trevor is consistently portrayed as a saint while I am relentlessly cast as the evil genius trying to manipulate his memories to support wild conspiracy theories. It is all rubbish and deeply ironic when it is Trevor and those who collaborated with him who are manipulating the truth for their own ends. Trevor has admitted that they – lawyers included – are all part of the book deal and so will share the profits. Like everyone else, I have the greatest sympathy for Trevor. He went through hell. But I cannot overlook the fact that, on the night, he failed to carry out established security procedures. Had he done so, the couple might be alive today.

    Interestingly, the ghostwriter Moira Johnston is best-known for a book on a famous court case concerning so-called "recovered memories." In her third-person narrative, individuals have a startling recall of precisely what they were thinking and saying more than two and a half years ago and, even more remarkable, an exact knowledge of what other people were thinking and saying when key events took place!

    Every trick in the book, every tabloid technique known to man, has been employed to fashion a fiction that parades as the truth. I bitterly resent this malicious book and its intrusion on my private family life and security arrangements. I simply cannot understand why I was refused an injunction when Tony Blair was awarded one to stop a book about his family written by a well-intentioned nanny who is a friend of the family! Sometimes the law really is an ass.

    Work of Fiction














    The Daily Telegraph and other newspapers have claimed quite wrongly that "The Bodyguard's Story" demolishes many of my theories. In fact, it contains no new information and actually lends weight to my conviction that Henri Paul was not drunk at all. Both Trevor and Kez continue to insist that Paul gave no indication whatsoever of being drunk before he got behind the wheel. They had been with him for extended periods that evening and still maintain that there was nothing in his behaviour or general conduct to suggest that he had been drinking. If this is the case, how then do they account for the inquiry finding that, within three minutes of leaving the hotel, he was more than three times over the drink-drive limit?

    The book makes several claims (about the engagement ring and the reported last words of Diana) which are wrong, but otherwise it consists of little more than gossip and innuendo designed to clear the bodyguards of any responsibility for what happened. Despite this, the Establishment has hailed it as a work of great significance. Like the recent revelation that the brother-in-law ofThe Sunday Telegraph editor is a senior MI6 officer , it shows how far the influence of the Establishment extends.

    I remain convinced that most fair-minded people believe there was foul play in Paris. Even The Daily Telegraph Home Affairs Editor Philip Johnston was recently forced to acknowledge:

    "Since the serialisation began, this newspaper and others connected with the book have been contacted by people who just cannot come to terms with the banal circumstances of the Princess's death. One caller yesterday berated The Daily Telegraph for 'covering up what everyone knows is the truth' ".

    Like Trevor Rees-Jones, I too would like to move on and lead a normal life but the Establishment is making that impossible. It is their constant refusal to answer perfectly straightforward questions that drives me on. They should know that the efforts to discredit and destroy me will not succeed and that I will never give up my fight to discover the full facts about the deaths of Dodi and Diana. I am not alone in wanting answers. There is widespread public unease about the circumstances of the tragedy. Very many ordinary people in this country want answers and they deserve them. In my own mind I must be certain that what happened in Paris was truly God's will and not the will of others. I have great faith that God will guide and protect me in my search and I fear no one. I am equally sure that one day the truth will be known.

  • Egyptian-born tycoon Mohammed Al-Fayed, Dodi's father, said he was pleased that the crash was to be re-investigated.

    "The remains of the vehicle have been protected by a court order and should be examined by British police vehicle examiners," he told the paper.

    "It will mean we can find out for certain what happened. It should resolve once and for all two key issues: whether the speedo was jammed and whether there was a collision with another car," he added.

    French judges concluded that the crash was due to the fact the driver, who also died, had been drinking and the car was travelling too fast


    Harare treason witness in Diana fraud

  • A FORMER Israeli intelligence agent at the centre of treason accusations against Zimbabwe’s opposition leader is being investigated by British police for allegedly attempting to sell false information about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, for £500,000. Ari Ben-Menashe, whose hotly disputed "evidence" in the Zimbabwe case could send the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, to the gallows, is accused of trying to convince Mohammed al-Fayed, owner of Harrods, into paying for information three years ago. He is said to have approached Mr Fayed in 1999 with claims he had evidence the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, had plotted to kill Diana. The princess died in a Paris car crash in August 1997, along with Mr Fayed’s son Dodi. "Subsequent investigations established that the Mossad conspiracy theory was nonsense and the matter was reported to police," said Mr Fayed’s spokesman, Chester Stern. News of the alleged deception, which Scotland Yard has confirmed is still under investigation, casts fresh doubts over the reliability of Mr Ben-Menashe’s evidence in the case against Mr Tsvangirai. That case centres on a grainy and dubiously edited video purporting to show Mr Tsvangirai discussing a plot with Mr Ben-Menashe to assassinate President Robert Mugabe. Mr Tsvangirai, whose popularity had threatened to unseat Mr Mugabe at elections in March, denies the accusations. The opposition leader claims he was set up by Mr Ben-Menashe, who has admitted to being a long-standing friend of Mr Mugabe . The shadow justice minister, David Coltart, said yesterday: "We are fast building a strong picture of Ben-Menashe not exactly being a man of good standing." The Canadian government yesterday confirmed that an inquiry into if Mr Tsvangirai might have a case to answer in Canada for hatching the alleged murder conspiracy with Mr Ben-Menashe in Montreal has come to nothing. "The investigation carried out by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been closed because I understand that all investigative avenues were exhausted," said a foreign affairs spokeswoman, Marie-Christine Lilkoff. It has also been claimed that Mr Ben-Menashe’s Canadian-based consultancy firm, Dickens & Madson, played a role in illegally trading weapons for diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A former Mossad operative, Mr Ben-Menashe was also accused of lying under oath during the Iran-Contra affair in the United States and was dubbed a "notorious and chronic liar" by the Jerusalem Post after selling false stories about Israel’s atomic weapons.

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  • Diana - was it an accident or was she killed?

    Repose en paix Henri
    Tes amis ne sont dupes

    "Rest in peace, Henri, your friends have not been fooled" -- words on floral tribute at the funeral of Henri Paul (English trans)

    "One day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and not come back down" -- Princess Diana

    The conspiracy theorists have been in overdrive. I make make no apology for adding to their output. I have a special reason for doing so - my theories pre-date the death of Princess Diana. About two years before her death a thought came into my mind that Diana would be killed. This would be no assassin's bullet as JFK or John Lennon, but an accident. I had in mind a skiing accident or a tragedy at sea. The thought must have lodged deep in my mind as it troubled me for weeks, then gradually faded away. Looking back I now see I must have had a premonition.

    There can be only two reasons for her death, an accident or she was deliberately killed.

    An accident can not be ruled out. Accidents happen to the best of us. Even if there was a plot to kill Diana, it could have been pre-empted by an accident.

    If it was an accident, it still deserves explanation as all accidents have causes. I am not familiar with the road tunnel alongside the Seine, but I have to ask myself how did the driver lose control? Is there a sharp bend, did he hit something or skid, did the car have a mechanical fault (if so why?), was the driver drunk or in some way intoxicated? These questions can be answered by simple examination and investigation. Dodi's bodyguard is the key to many. The driver being drunk seems at odds with his reputation.

    Accident or not, we may never know, but the whole affair has a distinctly uneasy and messy feel to it.

    Mid-November 1997, two British Sunday tabloid newspapers published a survey that showed that a very high proportion of those surveyed felt the death of Diana was no accident and that she had been killed to silence her. The methodology used left much to be desired, but with a figure of 98% the results could not be easily dismissed and if nothing else showed the general feeling of disquiet and unease over the death of Princess Diana.

    If not an accident, then part of a conspiracy, if so by whom, and for what reason?

    Some of this I can answer by going back two years. My initial thoughts on this must have had a very strong impact as they haunted me for weeks and weeks, only very slowly did they fade away. I almost contacted Diana, but what could either of us have done?

    The wildest of ideas can have their basis in reality. This is how creative thought occurs and scientific advances are made. A wild thought occurs, logic is used to build a bridge back to reality. If the bridge can be built, then we explore where it has taken us.

    This I did, but first the premonition. Diana was to be killed, it wasn't to be an obvious murder but faked to look like an accident. How, what, or when I did not know? I constructed possible scenarios of a swimming or boating accident or possibly an accident on the ski slopes.

    But why? Was there a rationale behind these thoughts?

    Unfortunately yes. Diana was seen as a loose canon, a member of the establishment, but outside of the establishment, a danger to all concerned. Diana in her own words referred to her time as a member of the Royal Family as the "dark ages".

    Diana herself reinforced and confirmed my own fears. In her now infamous interview, where she asked to be the Queen of Peoples Hearts, she talked of her fears and paranoia, that her phones were tapped and 'they' were out to get her. You don't have to be paranoid for them to be out to get you, but it helps.

    Some years earlier when Andrew Morton's book Diana - Her True Story hit the streets it was met with universal derision and condemnation. Andrew Morton himself was viciously attacked. What was his crime? His crime was to let out the truth. Morton let it be known that his sources were close to the Princess, strong hints were dropped that the Princess approved. The Palace launched a search for the 'mole' who had briefed Morton, Morton had his office burgled, files rifled and a camera stolen. As events unfurled, especially Diana's infamous interview, it became clear that Morton was revealing the truth. The bombshell had yet to be dropped. A few weeks after her death, Morton revealed that the source for his book had been none other than Diana herself, she had supplied him with tapes and corrected the original manuscript.

    Morton dropped his bombshell as he launched an updated version of his book. Once again the establishment went into overdrive to condemn Morton. In the US death threats were issued. Morton's timing may have been tacky, motivated more by greed than setting straight the public record, but if anyone had a right to publish a book on Diana it was Morton. This attempt at gagging is reminiscent of the secrecy surrounding the Duke of Windsor, all material on which is embargoed for 100 years.

    Following her estrangement from Charles and the Royal Family, Diana was clearly seen as a danger. Would she spill the beans and cause permanent damage, striking at the very heart of the British Establishment. From now on it was Diana who was calling the shots, and she continued to do so right up to her death. She demanded, and got a multi-million pound divorce settlement. Things began to settle down.

    Several months before her death, Diana seemed to grow in stature. It was as though she fully realised for the first time the power she had. Who but Diana could crook her finger and have Henry Kissinger at her side one day, and be seen comforting Aids victims or a woman in Bosnia on another. Her arms around Elton John at the funeral of Gianni Versace will be fixed forever in the world's psyche.

    The President of the USA only thinks he has power, it was Diana who held the real power. The public reaction to her death showed to what degree her influence had spread across the world.

    Diana in Angola

    Several months before her death Diana became involved in the campaign to ban landmines. Hilary Clinton had been pushing hard, but got nowhere. Maybe for the very first time realising the extent of her powers Diana offered to help. Visits to Angola, and Bosnia, a well publicised gala in the States. Governments around the world fell into line, Clinton who had steadfastly opposed a ban had no choice but in bad grace to climb aboard the bandwagon before it left without him.

    In a press interview following her Angola trip, Diana expressed shock at what she found, and that she had found new fulfilment as a champion of the fight to ban landmines, a crusade she hoped to take to trouble spots around the globe. Her response to critics was to brush their comments aside as 'merely a distraction' and vow not to change course.

    A few days before her death Diana was reported by a French journalist (Le Monde) as regarding the position of the previous Conservative government as hopeless. These remarks were immediately retracted by Diana's staff at Kensington Place, the journalist steadfastly clung to her report. Why should the remarks be withdrawn? If Diana believed in her campaign, which clearly she did, then her remarks would have only been an honest assessment, if anything a gross understatement. To withdraw those remarks, which were seen as correct, would only discredit herself and her position.

    Politicians who had been baying for her blood, grew ever more strident. What was this woman doing meddling in politics, why didn't she stick to old ladies and little children.

    Two weeks before her death the pictures of Dodi al-Fayed and Diana started to appear. A thought went through my mind 'Oh no, she has just signed her own death warrant'. Two weeks later and the rest was history, Diana lay dead in Paris.

    Mohamed al-Fayed, the father of Dodi, is the arch-villain of the British Establishment. For years he had been painted in the British media as an evil, cunning, corrupt Egyptian. Here was the man who with relative ease had bribed Members of Parliament and brought down the Conservative Government. The hatred was reported as mutual. Here was a man who had befriended Diana, another person outside of the establishment. Would they pool their resources, was there no depth to which this man would not go? Worse was to come. Looking to the future, would the man be present at the coronation of a future King as his step-grandfather? A future King, head of the Christian Church, defender of the faith, to have a Moslem as a half-brother? Would Diana follow her close friend's example, who had recently married a Pakistani cricketer, and turn into a Moslem? The establishment's worst nightmares were about to come true.

    The source of the al-Fayed family wealth has oft been questioned and never satisfactorily answered. This was brought to a head by the bitter battle for control and ownership of Harrods. Mohamed al-Fayed has family links, through his ex-wife, to Adnan Khashoggi, a Middle East arms dealer and possible CIA asset.

    This image of Mohamed al-Fayed portrayed in the British press was not that seen by the people who queued for many hours to sign the books of condolence, to them he was a man whose staff brought them food and drink whilst they patiently waited, a man whose son had brought their princess some happiness in her last days on earth, a man who had lost a much loved son, a man who their hearts and sympathy stretched out to almost as much as it did to their beloved princess.

    Even the press backed off for a while, expressing their rather guarded sympathy for a man who had just lost his son. The truce was short lived however, no sooner was Diana buried than the dirt on al-Fayed started to reappear in the press.

    Yes, it could have a been a very clever publicity stunt, to bring refreshments out, but if it was why did no-one else do it?

    If it was murder, who did it, who hatched the plot?

    This is not too difficult to answer. A shadowy, dark core at the centre of the establishment, accountable to no one and totally out of control.

    Eisenhower was the first to speak of a military-industrial complex out of control. During the talks to defuse the Cuban missile crisis, Kruschev confessed of military forces outside of his control, JFK admitted of the same problem. Kruschev was removed as too soft, JFK assassinated and replaced by the corrupt Johnson who stepped up the Vietnam war. Nixon entered into detente with China and wound down the Vietnam War, shortly afterwards, at the height of his popularity he was brought down by Watergate.

    The intelligence services destabilised, then brought down the Wilson Labour Government.

    The intelligent services in the UK have been repeatedly exposed as incompetent and out of control. Unlike the US there have been no public enquiries into their activities, there is no public accountability and it is only in recent years that official acknowledgement has been given of their very existence.

    Only weeks before the death of Diana, David Shayler, an agent of MI5, the UK internal security service, went public on the incompetence of MI5 and how it had been monitoring important public figures including Jack Straw, Home Secretary (the man nominally in charge of MI5) and Ted Heath, the former Prime Minister. The agent was not leaking any secure information or putting operations at risk, he was simply exposing malpractice and calling from within for greater accountability. To his shame, Jack Straw instead of applauding the man had him silenced.

    Silencing Shayler did not shut up the affair. A second MI5 agent, his girlfriend Annie Machon confirmed his story. Both were now on the run in Europe, hiding from the wrath of MI5. Some weeks later, exactly two weeks after the funeral of Diana, Annie Machon returned to England to be arrested at Gatwick airport. The manner of her arrest, was described in The Mail on Sunday (21 September 1997), who had published the initial revelations, as completely over the top, more fitting for a major terrorist or drugs trafficker than someone who had highlighted the failings and shortcomings of the British intelligence services.

    It does not take six burly men to arrest one young female of slender build who has returned to the country of her own volition, not that is unless the intention is to intimidate. The frightening scene of the arrest brought back echoes of KGB thugs intimidating dissidents, as did the smashing of the flat Annie Machon shared with David Shayler. Three weeks before her arrest, the security forces used the cover of a search warrant to smash up the flat that Annie Machon shared with David Shayler. If actions speak louder than words then someone was trying to put across a very strong message.

    Sunday 2 November 1997, The Mail on Sunday published the most damning revelations yet from ex-MI5 agent David Shayler on the level of incompetence at MI5. As a consequence of internal bungling MI5 failed to prevent the terrorist bombing of the Israeli Embassy in London, and failed to even notify Mossad of what they knew. There was then a crude attempt at a cover up.

    Monday 3 November 1997, ex-MI6 agent Richard Tomlinson appeared before Bow Street magistrates' court charged with offences under the Official Secrets Act. He was denied bail and remanded into custody for a week. He had been arrested at his home a couple of days before by Special Branch (the police wing of the Intelligence Services) and subjected to two days of interrogation at Charing Cross high security police station. His 'crime' was to attempt to publish a book on MI6. An injunction had prevented publication within the UK, rumours were circulating that he was about to publish in Australia. His mistake was not to have followed the the example of Peter Wright, ex-MI5 agent and author of Spycatcher published a decade earlier, and decamped to Australia.

    A week later, 9 November 1997, The Sunday Times described how, writing from his prison cell in Brixton, Richard Tomlinson saw himself as a political prisoner and the extraordinary lengths MI6 had gone to to hunt him down. And how Tomlinson relished the opportunity from open court to expose the hypocrisy, dishonesty and mismanagement at MI6.

    On Thursday 18 December 1997, Tomlinson was sentenced at the Old Bailey to 12 months imprisonment. In passing sentence, the judge said he was doing so 'in the national interest'.

    Following his release from prison, Tomlinson was constantly harassed by the intelligence services, and eventually fled the country, even though this was a breach of his parole conditions. He now resides in Geneva. On fleeing the country Tomlinson has made a number of allegations about MI6, one of these includes a plot to assassinate President Milosevic of Yugoslavia that bears an uncanny resemblance to the death of Princess Diana.

    The security services fear Internet. Numerous scare stories are planted in the media, repeated attempts are made to ban the use of encryption. Internet is the one free media, outside of government control, outside of unwarranted interference.

    On the day following Diana's funeral The Independent on Sunday reported the case of a man who had been stitched up by MI6 (the UK foreign intelligence agency).

    Several demonstrators broke into and occupied properties belonging to British Aerospace. The police brought in, before they saw there own lawyers, a lawyer working for BAe who interviewed the demonstrators. They had requested their own lawyers, as was their right, and been denied that right. The police allegedly released the names and addresses of the protesters to BAe. The following morning, so fast did it happen, protesters found temporary injunctions served on them by BAe at their home addresses. These were followed by injunctions that imposed a life time ban on setting foot on any named BAe property (a list several pages long) or being in the vicinity of. The cost of this action by BAe was estimated by one of the lawyers acting for the defenders at a million pounds.

    A week after the funeral, The Sunday Telegraph reported the intense lobbying the Pentagon were applying to Clinton not to agree to a ban on landmines. Their worst fears were that Clinton would even agree to the dropping of the US spoiler clause that would allow exemptions where 'national interests' were at stake.

    I give these examples as illustrations, I have many more examples at my fingertips.

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    Diana had successfully campaigned against landmines. What next, a ban on arms to Indonesia, Turkey, a visit with Dodi to Palestinian Camps? Alarm bells were ringing very loudly.

    Coincidental with the death of Diana, an Arms Fair was taking place in Farnborough - a town known the world over as the site of theFarnborough International Airshow. To this Arms Fair some of the world's most repressive regimes were honoured guests of the UK Government - Turkey, Indonesia. On the day her death was announced they made a point of carrying on, 'business as usual' was quoted one arms dealer. All week, whilst the world expressed its grief the Arms Fair continued. Meanwhile across the country, major events were cancelled as a mark of respect. Following the funeral, millions observed a minutes silence. In Farnborough, the silence was broken by an executive jet flying into Farnborough Airfield. The merchants of death were clearly determined to give two fingers to one who had dared campaign against them.

    The response of the people of Farnborough to this shoddy behaviour was one of anger, revulsion and disgust. Letters published in the local press gave some idea of the anger that was felt.

    End of September, beginning of October, Farnborough was scheduled to host COPEX - Covert Operations Exhibition. On display and sale would be instruments of torture. Once again the world's most repressive regimes were to be honoured guests.

    Colonel Gadafy of Libya has asked the International Court of Justice in the Hague that when those responsible for the death of Diana be caught they be put on trial in Libya. The reason for what at first glance seems a strange request is that Dodi was a Libyan citizen and Gadafy's belief that both were assassinated by the British Intelligence Services. This belief has widespread acceptance in the Arab world, especially Egypt and Libya.

    It is easy to see why. A few weeks after Diana's death, an assassination attempt was made in Jordan by two Mossad agents on a prominent Hamas leader. Initially this was reported as a scuffle with two Canadian tourists. The two 'Canadian tourists' were Mossad agents holding forged Canadian passports. The incident backfired badly on Israel. In order to recover their two agents they were forced to release the spiritual leader of Hamas and dozens of Hamas terrorists.

    How did it happen?

    In the early hours of Sunday, Stephen Jessel, BBC Paris correspondence was speaking live on the BBC World Service and he was puzzled. How, he almost mused to himself did the paparazzi know Diana was in Paris at the Ritz? It was not public knowledge and he as a respected BBC correspondence was not privy to that knowledge. Earlier in the day she and Dodi had been in Sardinia. Who tipped off the paparazzi? Were they all paparazzi, or had a paparazzi been lent on? Was the chase deliberate? Was it intended to force the car to crash, if not here, then some other time, some other place? Many of the paparazzi disappeared, who were they, can those who were found at the scene shed any light on this? Was the car tampered with?

    The driver of the car was an anomaly. Why was he driving so fast? Was the car simply out of control, or was there more to it? The police report on the driver was clearly out of character with those who knew him. The security videos, and those who spoke with him and saw him before he departed on his fateful last journey, back those who speak highly of him. If in spite of all this, he was acting out of character, then why?

    Down the right-hand side of the car was a scratch and paint marks, indicating a possible brush with another car. Parts of the rear-end of a Fiat Uno were found at the crash scene, this could indicate a brush with another car or simply that the filthy French do not clean up after an accident. There are rumours floating around Paris of eyewitnesses seeing another car rapidly disappearing from the scene. One eyewitness said he saw a small black car leaving the crash scene at very high speed in what he thought were suspicious circumstances.

    The French have refused to release footage from security cameras along the route taken by the Mercedes, or to release footage from their own Ministry of Defence cameras (near the Paris Ritz).

    On Wednesday 8 October 1997, the French police announced their intention to check more than 100,000 Fiat Unos, that had been registered in and around the Paris area. It was made known that they were looking for a white Fiat Uno. This clashed with earlier rumours that the paintwork was red, blue or black, indicating, if nothing else, the degree of confusion and disinformation surrounding the case. The police also let it be known, that from the wreckage, it seemed that the Mercedes had been in collision with a Fiat Uno moments before the crash.

    An off-duty senior police office, reported being overtaken by a speeding white Fiat Uno, which then slowed and loitered at the tunnel entrance, seemingly waiting for the Mercedes. [The Mirror, Thursday 4 June 1998]

    Early June 1998, despite intense efforts by the French police, the Fiat Uno has not been found. Speculation that it has been destroyed, or is now out of the country.

    Several witnesses saw a motorcycle cut-up the Mercedes moments before the crash. They also saw a blinding flash, far more intense than a photographic flash. Speculation that this was an anti-personnel device used to disable the driver. [Diana: The Secrets Behind the Crash, ITV, Wednesday, 3 June 1998]

    Many more people and vehicles are known to have been in the tunnel than have so far given themselves up.

    Laurence Pujol, ex-girlfriend of Henri Paul, who had lived with him for five years said he wasn't a heavy drinker. Alexander Wingfield, a bodyguard to Diana and Dodi, spent the two hours before the crash with Henri Paul and detected no sign of drink. He had also driven with Henri Paul in the back-up car from the airport and noted his driving as professional. A sample of the liver showed Henri Paul was not a regular drinker.

    On Tuesday 9 September 1997 the results of the third test on the driver were published. All three tests had shown the driver to have consumed high quantities of alcohol. The third test also showed that he had been taking drugs. If the tests are correct then it raises more questions. Why was his behaviour so out of character, why did no one notice?

    ITV documentary Diana: The Secrets Behind the Crash (Wednesday, 3 June 1998), showed a high carbon monoxide content in Henri Paul's blood that did not correlate with his behaviour.

    Henri Paul was at the Ritz two hours before the crash. Where was he between driving from the airport and his being recalled back to the Ritz? This vital gap in his movements, hours before the fatal crash, are still not accounted for.

    The first duty of a bodyguard is to protect those in his care. Why did he not ensure the occupants of the car were wearing their seat belts? Moments before the fatal crash, Trevor Rees-Jones fastened his seat belt. Why? Trevor Rees-Jones failed to follow standard protection procedures.

    Paul Burrell, Diana's personal butler, arrived in Paris within hours of her death to collect her belongings and arrange their return to London. Though in the company of a Foreign Office official he was kept waiting for 40 minutes. He then found that all Diana's personal effects had been gone through and dispatched back to London. By whom, on whose orders, why? Neither he nor the FO official were able to obtain satisfactory answers to these questions. Paul Burrell found the experience extremely upsetting and distressing.

    These and many more questions need to be answered. Mohamed al-Fayed obviously felt something was wrong, why else did he bring in a top forensic scientist. For that he is to be applauded. I can only hope that he also has the foresight to bring in his own investigators and question all those involved. He needs to do this now whilst the evidence is fresh. Only Mohamed al-Fayed has the wealth to conduct such an investigation.

    Though al-Fayed also has a vested interest. If the driver was incapacitated, then the Ritz Hotel (as employer) and ultimately al-Fayed (as owner) are culpable. He may have other interests that are not yet apparent.

    But, even if the driver was pissed out of his brain and high as a kite, as the third autopsy would seem to indicate, this still does not let the paparazzi of the hook, as it was they who were chasing the car.

    The Sunday Telegraph (14 September 1997) reported that the bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones was under round-the-clock police protection on the direct orders of the chief of criminal investigations in Paris, Martine Monteil and that Mohamed al-Fayed had hired a team of investigators headed by an unnamed senior ex-Scotland Yard officer.

    Will the truth out?

    A difficult one to answer - too many people have vested interests, few, if any, of of the major players have clean hands.

    Mohamed al-Fayed (the Phoney Egyptian Pharaoh): repeatedly exposed in the British media as a vulgar, corrupt, conniving Egyptian. The DTI report on his business dealings: "The lies of Mohamed Fayed and his success in 'gagging' the press created new fact: that lies were the truth and that the truth was a lie." In their conclusion on the al-Fayed brothers: "dishonestly misrepresented their origins, their wealth, their business interests and their resources", and provided information which they "knew to be false". In an editorial, The Daily Telegraph noted that former Harrods employees had had their apartments bugged on the orders of Mohamed al-Fayed (Wednesday 15 October 1997). The previous day, Neil Hamilton, a former-MP and ex-government minister allegedly bribed by al-Fayed, claimed under oath in a submission to the House of Commons privileges and standards committee, that al-Fayed had personally ordered and overseen the forced entry of safe-deposit boxes stored at Harrods, he went on to say: "Mr Fayed has a well known record of deceit and invention ... an innate capacity for deceit". Scotland Yard confirmed that they were investigating the illegal entry of the safe-deposit boxes. The Observer, Sunday 30 November 1997, reported on the extensive monitoring by al-Fayed on the staff employed at Harrods. On Monday 2 March 1998, al-Fayed was arrested for allegedly stealing and tampering with items belonging to Tiny Rowland that had been stored in safe-deposit boxes at Harrods.

    Michael Cole (mouthpiece for al-Fayed): allegedly sacked by the BBC for leaking the Queen's Speech (refuted by Cole), universally detested by the media. On Friday 20 February 1998, Cole dramatically quit his post, apparently even he could no longer stomach the garbage he was spouting (The Express, Saturday 21 February 1998).

    Henri Paul (chauffeur, Ritz security): his friends are adamant that he is undergoing character assassination, a British newspaper reported him as a shady character, leading a seedy double life. ITV documentary Diana: The Secrets Behind the Crash (Wednesday, 3 June 1998), claimed Henri Paul was a member of the French Intelligence Service. Richard Tomlinson (ex-MI6) has claimed that Henri Paul was working for MI6.

    Trevor Rees-Jones (bodyguard): the only major player whose reputation has survived as remarkably clean, but his background as an ex-member of the Parachute Regiment does not enhance his standing, as anyone who has had the misfortune to live in the garrison town of Aldershot will testify, members of the Parachute Regiment are little more than thugs kitted-out in army uniform. On Saturday 28 February 1998, Trevor Rees-Jones issued a statement that following counselling sessions with a psychiatrist he was now able to recall much what of what had happened. The statement raised many questions - to what extent had information been planted in his mind, what undue influence had al-Fayed brought to bear now that Rees-Jones had returned to light duties, was Rees-Jones being paid for his story? On Monday 20 April 1998, Trevor Rees-Jones resigned from the service of al-Fayed, expressing a desire through his layers to 'move his life on'. Wednesday 23 September, Trevor Rees-Jones indicated his intention to sue the company that had hired the Mercedes to the Ritz.

    Paul Handley-Greaves ('security expert'): known as a liar and a cheat. Was involved in an elaborate plot to discredit Vanity Fair, by claiming to be in possession of stolen security videos from Harrods.

    James Hewitt (ex-lover, widely regarded as a shit): not an immediate player but his revelation in the ITV documentary Diana: The Secrets Behind the Crash (Wednesday, 3 June 1998), that he was warned off his relationship with Diana as 'not conducive to his health', that his 'security could not be guaranteed' and that he could meet the same fate as Barry Mannakee (Diana's personal bodyguard, killed in a motorcycle accident, 1988) lends some credence to the possibility Diana's death may not have been an accident. [The Times, Wednesday 3 June 1998]

    The Press: blood stained from their implied involvement in the death. Will do anything to shift the blame and focus of attention elsewhere.

    The truth may never out. Mid-October 1997, John Burton, the British coroner charged with investigating and recording a verdict on the death of Diana, publicly expressed his concern and frustration at his inability to get at the truth. He cited the disinformation surrounding the case and referred to the conspiracy theories appearing on Internet.

    Did they succeed?

    First, before I answer, does it make a difference, if, as I posed at the beginning it was an accident, or as the autopsies on the driver indicate, driver error, propelled by the paparazzi? To this the answer is no, as the end objective is met, the Princess is taken out of the game and hands are clean.

    To return to the posed question, did they succeed, the simple answer is no, and that has been answered by the millions who responded to her death.

    Anyone who spent an evening in Kensington Palace Gardens could not but helped be moved by the spirit that was in the place.

    The people want a memorial to Diana, they want more than a pile of stone, they want to see her work continue. As the Palace found to its cost, the public will not back down on this.

    A quiet revolution appears to be taking place, thirty years on after the revolutionary mood of the '60s. Then is was a radical element wanting a better world, to be cast aside by the '70s and gruesome '80s, now it is the whole population. A velvet revolution appears to have gripped the psyche. Can it succeed? Maybe, in the '60s the radical youth were greeted by the hard old men who grew up on war and knew nothing else. Now, those radicals of the '60s hold positions of power, are people of influence, will they, can they, deliver what they once dreamed of, now that the public demands it?

    Earl Spencer, in probably the most eloquent speech in history, pledged in a tribute to his sister to continue the work of Diana. He pledged to see that her sons would be brought up in the way she would have wished, that they would help to continue her work. It would be a very foolish person indeed who tries to oppose him.

    Both Tony Blair and Hilary Clinton have sensed and grasped the public mood. Both have pledged to continue her work.

    Outside Kensington Palace, I was struck by flowers from Iraqis mourning what for them was the loss of a beacon of humanity.

    The work on landmines has become a foregone conclusion - a world ban. It is amazing who has jumped on the bandwagon following Diana's death. Robin Cook (UK Foreign Secretary) pushing hard for a ban as though it has been his lifelong ambition, if nothing else it has added some substance to his ethical foreign policy which until then noticeably lacking in substance. A general, in a letter to The Times, highlighted the lack of military utility of landmines and gave the campaign his whole-hearted backing. What next, a ban on arms to repressive regimes such as Turkey and Indonesia? This is a logical extension, and probably something Diana would have moved on to once she realised the full extent of her power for good.

    For everyone, the world over, a light has gone out, but as the many candles burning in Kensington Palace Gardens has shown, there are many who are determined to keep that light burning.

    As one, with Tony Blair and Hilary Clinton I am proud to be counted as one who will help to move her work forward for the poor, the sick, the disadvantaged, for all of humanity.

    It is for others to light their own candles to banish the forces of darkness and show that they are finally defeated. The forces of darkness may have extinguished one flame, but a million stand its stead each burning with the same spirit and passion.

    There were those who from a position of ignorance and bigotry chose to ridicule this account. History may yet prove them wrong. Within hours of the tragedy, conspiracy theories started to appear on the Web, within days serious questions were raised in Cairo, including the publication of a book. Once the initial shock had wore off, dark hints were made, then questions started to be asked, soon the possible presence of other vehicles became more than mere unsubstantiated rumour and speculation. On Saturday 14 February 1998, The Times raised the issue with the stark headline 'Diana: was it murder?'. The article was attributed to Thomas Sancton and Scott MacLeod, authors of Death of a Princess: An Investigation. Having posed the question, no clear cut answer was given other than to highlight, as has been done here, the many riddles and puzzling elements of her death.

    Still more questions were raised in an ITV documentary Diana: The Secrets Behind the Crash, broadcast Wednesday, 3 June 1998. The programme raised the possibility of Henri Paul being a member of the French Intelligence Service, serious flaws in his blood sample, and the presence of a motorcyclist who tried to cut-up the Mercedes moments before the crash and may have been the cause of a blinding flash deliberately aimed to disable the driver. In a follow-up studio discussion Bernard Ingham (former mouthpiece of Lady Thatcher) and Rupert Allison (self-styled intelligence expert) both demonstrated their ignorance and bigotry. David Shayler (ex-MI5 agent) was barred by government threats from participating in the studio discussion.

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    31 May 1999: Requests for this file from Thu-13-May-1999 14:02 US-EST to Mon-31-May-1999 07:59 US-EST (17.7 days): 35,482.

    19 May 1999: See also: Is the MI6 Spy List a True List?

    16 May 1999. A partial answer to <an002020@anon.isp.ee> (updated):

    This file was made available here: 13/May/1999:14:02:02.

    The first download was by the US Department of Justice: 13/May/1999:14:04:36.

    This fast action was surely coincidental for DoJ machines periodically visit.

    By midnight there had been 3,873 downloads.

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    15 May 1999

    "A UK Foreign Office spokesman said he could not comment on contacts between British and American officials over the MI6 matter, but said early apprehension over the difficulty of shutting down a Web site in the United States, compared with the same task in Europe, had subsided. 'Given the First Amendment and the open freedom of information there, you would have thought it would be more difficult,' he said."

    -- The New York Times, "Britian Closes Web Site With Spies' Names," May 14, 1999.

    JYA Note: There has been a single request to remove the MI6 files here, from a US citizen who telephoned May 14 to say that the "disloyal act" had been reported to responsible authorities, many of whom, we told the caller, had early retrieved the file. We offered to put here any further statement the person wished to provide but none has yet come. Such statements are welcome, by name or anonymously, please send to <jy@jya.com>. It would be prudent to assume that our e-mail is being snooped, if you fancy fanciful skullduggery, so the use of an anonymous remailer is worth considering.

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