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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.

JB Ehrlich
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September 14, 1997
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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.

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.

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 the Farnborough 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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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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Diana, Princess of Wales: Did MI6 Kill Her?

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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Your Antidote to Media Cartel Propaganda http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?ChannelID=41 Diana Assassination Conspiracy:Ex-MI6 Agent Raided     by DAILY EXPRESS 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 death

June 15 2003

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.

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Your Antidote to Media Cartel Propaganda http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?ChannelID=41 Diana Assassination Conspiracy:Ex-MI6 Agent Raided     by DAILY EXPRESS 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 death

June 15 2003

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.

Patricia Cornwell 'solves mystery' of Diana car crash
By Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter

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. Cornwell's findings will be broadcast in America in an hour-long programme for ABC's Prime Time Thursday slot on October 30.  The film will be shown before the long-awaited inquest into the Princess's death. 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." Related articles   30 August 2003: Diana and Dodi inquests will be held in Britain 3 August 2002: Parents of Diana's driver fight to clear his name 11 March 2001: 'They should have saved Diana's life' 8 December 2001: Jack the Ripper was painter Sickert, says crime writer 4 September 1999: Diana crash caused by chauffeur, says report 4 September 1997: Spencers send envoy to monitor Paris inquiry External links Patricia Cornwell [official site] Diana: The conspiracy theories - LondonNet Related articles 30 August 2003: Diana and Dodi inquests will be held in Britain 3 August 2002: Parents of Diana's driver fight to clear his name 11 March 2001: 'They should have saved Diana's life' 8 December 2001: Jack the Ripper was painter Sickert, says crime writer 4 September 1999: Diana crash caused by chauffeur, says report 4 September 1997: Spencers send envoy to monitor Paris inquiry Related articles 30 August 2003: Diana and Dodi inquests will be held in Britain 3 August 2002: Parents of Diana's driver fight to clear his name 11 March 2001: 'They should have saved Diana's life' 8 December 2001: Jack the Ripper was painter Sickert, says crime writer 4 September 1999: Diana crash caused by chauffeur, says report 4 September 1997: Spencers send envoy to monitor Paris inquiry Waar ligt jouw grens? 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The Murder of Diana, Princess of Wales: Alex Jones Interviews Paul Joseph Watson
Alex Jones interviews webmaster of Propaganda Matrix.com and Prison Planet.com and author of 'Order Out Of Chaos,' Paul Joseph Watson on both recent and past evidence which clearly indicates that Princess Diana's car 'accident' was a premeditated murder carried out by order of the Royal Family.

The Murder of Diana, Princess of Wales: Alex Jones Interviews Paul Joseph Watson

Alex Jones interviews webmaster of Propaganda Matrix.com and Prison Planet.com and author of 'Order Out Of Chaos,' Paul Joseph Watson on both recent and past evidence which clearly indicates that Princess Diana's car 'accident' was a premeditated murder carried out by order of the Royal Family

Burrell: MI5 Linked to Diana's Death

London Mirror | May 6 2004

PAUL Burrell yesterday told police of an MI5 link to the chilling letter in which Princess Diana predicted she would be killed in a car crash.

The ex-royal butler was quizzed for three hours by detectives probing Diana's death in 1997.

Mr Burrell, 46, said: "It was a delicate and sensitive meeting and I helped the officers as much as I could." He talked about a secret friendship which the princess had struck up with a former MI5 intelligence officer.

The man's warning prompted Diana to write her fears in a letter that she would die in a car accident - 10 months before the Paris crash.

Two officers quizzed Mr Burrell at his solicitor's office in Chester about the letter's authenticity and context. Asked if he had talked about the MI5 link Mr Burrell added: "I mentioned everything which I believed was relevant."

Diana believed she was being watched by the security services.

Coroner Michael Burgess ordered an investigation into her death before a full inquest next spring.

Police said: " The meeting was not a formal police interview."

I Heard Diana's Dying Words
Glasgow Daily Record | March 14 2004

I Heard Diana's Dying Words

Glasgow Daily Record | March 14 2004

Comment: Diana was still alive and would have survived had the ambulance not deliberately passed four seperate hospitals and had it not been going at a maximum speed of only 25 miles per hour.

Comment: Diana was still alive and would have survived had the ambulance not deliberately passed four seperate hospitals and had it not been going at a maximum speed of only 25 miles per hour.

PRINCESS Diana spoke to rescuers as she lay in the wreckage of her Paris car crash, it was claimed yesterday.

She was conscious and asked questions of a fireman who comforted her, he said.

Carlo Zaglia told how she repeatedly asked: 'What's happened?What's going on?'

Meanhile, a claim by Dodi's father, Mohamed al Fayed, that MI6 were implicated in the deaths was dismissed yesterday.

At the Court of Session, Judge Lord Drummond Young said that the Harrods owner, who owns Balnagown castle in Ross-shire, had not produced any facts to back up his allegations.

He threw out the bid to have a public inquiry in Scotland into the tragedy which he blamed purely on the high-speed crash.

A coroner's inquest has been launched in England but al Fayed believes its scope is limited and will keep pushing for a public inquiry.

American TV viewers yesterday saw the first broadcast of a film showing Diana giggling and pulling faces for Princes William and Harry as she rehearsed for a speech.

I Saw Fiat Driver Kill Di
Sunday People - 01/18/04

A NEW witness to Princess Diana's death smash has come forward - and says her limo WAS forced to crash by a white Fiat.

Saw Fiat Driver Kill Di

Sunday People

A NEW witness to Princess Diana's death smash has come forward - and says her limo WAS forced to crash by a white Fiat.

Moroccan beauty Souad Mouffakir, 33, kept silent for six years about what she saw because she feared she would be killed.

But last week she gave her startling evidence to The People after her husband Mohamed Medjahdi - who was driving in front of Diana's black Mercedes in a Paris underpass - claimed there was NO mystery Fiat. Souad said:

I saw through the back window a Fiat Uno driving very fast up to us in the outside lane. But rather than hurtle past, it slowed down so we were side by side.

It was very strange behaviour and I got frightened. The white car was only centimetres from ours. I stared over to the driver and I will never forget him.

He had a very strange expression like his mind was thinking about something else. His whole manner was odd. It troubled me.

He was Mediterranean, short because his head was only just above the steering wheel. His skin was tanned and his hair was very dark brown and wiry.

He was in his mid-thirties. In the back seat was a huge alsatian. I became very scared, I thought he was a madman and I told Mohamed to speed away. We did that and a moment later we heard the screech of tyres.

I looked round and saw a black Mercedes sliding out of control at 45 degrees, coming straight at us. I saw the car impact into the pillar. I did not realise that I had just seen the crash that killed Diana. I saw the chauffeur thrown forward into the steering wheel. I knew he had been killed immediately.

I wake thinking about it. The nightmares are terrible. I looked for the Fiat but it had disappeared. The Mercedes must have gone out of control trying to avoid it.


Souad contacted police next day and she and Mohamed, 29, were quizzed but neither mentioned the Fiat because, she says, they were too scared.

But Souad, who split with forklift truck driver Mohamed three years ago, agreed to speak to The People after he claimed in British and French newspapers last week that there was NO Fiat.

At her home in a northern suburb of Paris, she said: "I have kept my silence for over six years but I am sick Mohamed lied.

"I was convinced what I saw would lead me to being killed. But anyone who tries to kill me now will have to come out of hiding to do it.

"I am furious Mohamed did not tell the whole truth. Diana was a beautiful woman who did so much good. I owe it to her and the people who loved her."

Souad's dramatic claims were backed by two close friends.

Farida Azzouz, 31, said: "Souad told me just after it happened that she had seen a white Fiat but she hadn't told the police about it. She was worried her life would be in danger."

Another friend, Bouchra Zahdane, 24, said: "I can confirm they witnessed the crash but they kept very quiet about the exact details of it."

Souad's evidence will be keenly studied by British police who have been asked by Royal coroner Dr Michael Burgess to investigate the deaths of Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed.

The People has made no payment to Souad.


Police doubts on Diana's death
London Times - 01/10/04

SERIOUS doubts have emerged among British police over the authenticity of a blood sample which shows that Diana, Princess of Wales was killed by a drunken driver.

VIDEO LINK

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/070204thenightshedied.html

Diana: The Night She Died This is a Channel 5 documentary which aired last year in Britain. The investigation proves both that the death of Princess Diana was a pre-meditated murder and that secret service agents were involved. For further research on the murder of Princess Diana and its subsequent cover-up, go to theMurder of Dianaarchive.

Diana In Fear Over '95 Crash

Diana In Fear Over '95 Crash

London Mirror
A FRIEND of Princess Diana has told how she had a car crash two years before she died which she blamed on sabotage.

Simone Simmons, 48, is ready to testify to the Scotland Yard inquiry into Diana's fatal accident in Paris in 1997.

Two years earlier, the princess's green convertible had hit another car as she drove away from a healing centre in Marylebone, central London.

Ms Simmons said: "Diana rang to tell me. She was panic-stricken. She told me that the brakes had suddenly failed.

"Fortunately she wasn't hurt. It seemed to reinforce her belief that someone was trying to kill her.

"Diana said later that the garage confirmed it was just a mechanical failure, and not foul play.

"But it shook her up badly and she was convinced that someone had tampered with the car."

Last week the Daily Mirror revealed how Diana wrote in a note that Charles might be plotting her death in similar fashion.


A FRIEND of Princess Diana has told how she had a car crash two years before she died which she blamed on sabotage.

Diana was pregnant when she died: Report


Diana was pregnant when she died: Report

December 21, 2003 18:41 IST
Last Updated: December 22, 2003 15:20 IST

Princess Diana was pregnant at the time of her death in a road accident in Paris six years ago, a media report said in London on Sunday.

"I can tell you that she (Diana) was pregnant," a senior police official in France told the Independent.

According to the daily, the source dismissed suggestions that there was any conspiracy before the death of Diana, her friend Dodi al-Fayed and their driver in a car crash on August 31, 1997.
The source, however, claimed that there was 'a cover-up of sorts' in the days following the crash. The officer said medical reports, which have never been made public, showed that Diana was pregnant at the time of her death.

Conspiracy theorists had seized reports that Diana was pregnant - first alleged by Dodi's father millionaire businessman Mohammed al-Fayed soon after the accident - as a possible motive for an assassination plot by the British royal family and government.

The source who, according to the report, saw all documents relating to the case was speaking after a British coroner announced that he would hold inquests into the cause of the deaths of Diana and Dodi, beginning on January 6, 2004.

The source said the investigation points clearly to an accident, caused in part by the fact that chauffeur Henri Paul had been drinking heavily.

Diana's friends and her butler, Paul Burrell, have, in the past, strenuously denied suggestions that the princess was expecting a third child at the time of her death.

The source implied that Diana's pregnancy was hushed up to spare the embarrassment to her family. Since it was not regarded as relevant to the cause of the accident, or her death, it was not mentioned at the end of the two-year judicial investigation into the crash by a French judge, Herve Stephan.

Medical reports from the hospital where Diana died may, however, be included among the 6,000 pages of documents from the French investigation, which will be delivered to the British coroner, Michael Burgess. The coroner has said that he cannot open the hearings until he received the investigation file once legal proceedings were completed in France. He also indicated that the full hearings would be delayed until the whole file has been translated and studied.

There has also been speculation about the time it has taken to call a British inquest, now routine when a British citizen dies abroad. The proceedings have been prolonged mostly by Fayed who appealed against the original decision by French authorities to bring no action against the photographers who pursued Diana and Dodi's car.

When he lost the appeal, Fayed filed another case against three photographers for invading his son's privacy. In November, a French court dismissed the case.

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Diana 'feared for her life'

Diana, the late Princess of Wales, feared for her life, close friend Roberto Devorik, an Argentine fashion impresario and designer, has revealed.

Diana 'feared for her life'

Sydney Morning Herald
an Argentine fashion impresario and designer, has revealed. 

Mr Devorik, who is director of the Ralph Lauren subsidiary in Argentina, said that, before a private jet trip with Diana to Rome, she had said to him: "Let's see if we fly together or they blow us up." 

He told El Clarin newspaper that Diana said during the flight that she had a "premonition" that "they are going to kill me in one of these machines, in a helicopter". 

He said Diana added: "But after I'm dead, it's going to be harder for them to forget me because if they kill me, the memory of me is going to stay with them the rest of their lives." 

The first news that Diana might have feared for her life was from former royal butler Paul Burrell in A Royal Duty, his memoir of his service to her, which was released last month. 

He said Diana wrote a letter 10 months before she died saying she feared somebody was planning "an accident" in her car.

Mr Devorik said that, after Diana's death, "obviously there was something very strange because the investigation was never carried out fully - there are things that were never explained and which deserve an explanation". 

He said the love of Diana's life was Pakistani physician Hasnet Khan. 

He said Dodi al-Fayed was not the man of Diana's life. 

In the interview with El Clarin, that appeared on Sunday, he said Diana had told him that Dodi was "a summer romance".



Diana: The Real Reason Stores Are Pulling The Globe?
Story of William's revenge quickly being removed from the shelves

Diana: The Real Reason Stores Are Pulling The Globe?

Rayelan Allan
WHY ARE MANY STORES IN THE MIDWEST PULLING THE GLOBE TABLOID? 

Are they doing it to protect Kobe Bryant's accuser? Or are they doing it to keep you from knowing that Prince Phillip was behind Diana's murder? 

The GLOBE tabloid is being pulled from many stores in the midwest part of the United States. It is unknown if the rest of the country will soon join these stores in removing the tabloid. 

The reason given for removing the November 11th edition of the tabloid is that it published both a picture and the name of the woman that is accusing Kobe Bryant of rape. 

This woman's name and picture have been on the Internet for months. If anyone had been interested in finding out what she looked like or what her name is, they could have done it months ago. 

The GLOBE claims they published her name and photograph at the urging of several women's rights groups who asked them to do this. They failed to name the women's rights groups! 

However, there is another story in this edition of the GLOBE, and it is my belief that the stores are removing the GLOBE because of THIS article. 

The headline on the uppermost right side screamed: 

"DID WILLIAM'S GRANDDAD MURDER DIANA?" 
Crash plot uncovered

When you open the tabloid to page 16 you see these headlines 

WILLIAM VOWS TO EXPOSE CONSPIRACY TO KILL MOM 
Was his grandfather behind the plot? 

The article goes on to say that William... 

STILL devastated over the death of his mother after six years, Prince William is determined to uncover the conspiracy he - believes led to her murder - even if it takes him straight to his own grandfather! 

"I SHALL find the truth," William vowed to friends. 

The Globe article mentions the book that was released last week by Diana's private butler, Paul Burrell: 

In his blockbuster book, A Royal Duty, Burrell reprints the letter Diana wrote to him before her death, in which she said a car accident was being planned to "make the path clear" for Charles to marry Camilla Parker-Bowles. 

In his book, Burrell published a photocopy of the letter Diana wrote to him in October of 1996: 

Her fears caused her to write the note to him in October 1996. Before sealing the envelope addressed just to "Paul," she told him, "I'm going to date this and I want you to keep it...just in case." 

SNIP 

According to palace insiders, the 21-year-old William is certain the men were inspired by the rants and raves of Queen Elizabeth's husband Prince Philip, who saw Diana as a threat to the British monarchy. 

In my book, Diana, Queen of Heaven, the New World Religion 

http://www.rumormillnews.com/DianaIndex.htm

I published an MI6 document which shows that Prince Phillip, referred to as Edinburgh, was behind the plot to murder Diana.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RUMORMILLNEWS/message/12746

They planned and brought about the horrific car crash in Paris in 1997 that killed 36-year-old Diana, her Egyptian lover Dodi AI Fayed and their chauffeur Henri Paul. 

The MI6 document shows that the Mercedes that Diana and Dodi were in the night they were killed had been stolen and altered to cause the accident. The following is from the MI6 document: 

7. al Fayed Mercedes Limo stolen and returned with electronics missing. Reliable intel source confirms K_team involved. Source reports car rebuilt to respond to external radio controls. (Report filed) 

Continuing from the GLOBE: 

The men believed that they were acting with the approval of powerful figures in the political and industrial establishment, and senior members of the royal family, including Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. 

"The mean-tempered Duke was furious that Diana had taken Muslim lovers, including Dodi and her former beau, heart surgeon Hasnat Khan," says one palace source. 

"Philip is known to hate and deride people of color from Asia and the Middle East. When he's had too much to drink, he's been heard to curse and demean them. The prospect of Diana marrying Dodi, who would then be- come stepfather to the young princes, drove him into a rage." 

The MI6 document shows Prince Phillip's hatred of Muslims: 

Edinburgh (Prince Phillip _ed) sees serious threat to dynasty should relationship endure. Quote reported: "Such an affair is racially and morally repugnant and no son of a bedouin camel trader is fit for the mother of a future king," Edinburgh. (Report filed) 

Quoting the GLOBE article: 

When the tome was serialized in The Daily Mirror, a national daily newspaper, the name of the person Diana believed was behind the scheme was blacked out. 

But, say insiders, William has been told it reads, "Prince Philip." 

The EIR (Executive Intelligence Review -- a LaRouche Intelligence Organization, published an editorial in which they named the three MI6 agents they believed were involved in Diana's murder. 

"THEY" MURDERED DIANA AND PLOTTED TO KILL MILOSOVIC

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RUMORMILLNEWS/message/12744

From the EIR article: 

Sir David Spedding--Head of MI6--was ordered to organise the murder of Diana, Princess of Wales and her friend Dodi Al Fayed. 

David Spedding died recently. I could not find an article about his death, sorry. 

These are the 3 agents that were named by the EIR: 

Richard David Spearman--Chief of staff for Sir David Spedding. He was given an assignment and moved to Paris two weeks prior to the murder of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed. 

Nicholas John Andrew Langman--Principal assistant to Richard Spearman. He was also involved with Spedding in the murder. 

Richard Billing Dearlove--the incoming Head of MI6 in September 1999--was in Paris two weeks before the Aug. 31, 1997 crash. 

The GLOBE says of William: 

"He is now sure that his mother lived in fear of a ruthless group of conspirators who believed that she was a danger to the British throne and was close to bringing down the monarchy. 

"Whether his grandfather was one of the plotters or not, he can't prove. 

"But he believes that Philip wanted something to happen to Diana, and these political hit men took it from there." 

In the article written by the EIR, they mention an editorial written by the STAR tabloid. 

ROYALS ORDERED DI'S DEATH 

PRINCESS Di was killed by British intelligence agents on orders from the top of the royal family, claim top_secret new bombshell documents.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RUMORMILLNEWS/message/12745

The new GLOBE article ends with: 

"William will get to the bottom of it - even if he has to personally poke his finger into 
his granddad's face and accuse him." 

Most of the information that is published in the GLOBE article has been known and published since 1998 or 1999. What makes the GLOBE article compelling is the recent SENSATIONAL release of NEW information about 

SECRET NSA TAPES COULD PROVIDE SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY TO SUPPORT PRINCESS DIANA'S DRAMATIC LETTER

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=38946

This revelation by Gordon Thomas... a writer who I believe is only as good as his sources... but there is ample evidence outside of Gordon Thomas, which proves to me that the NSA tapes exist. 

However, Thomas makes that claim there are "seven tapes. Each is the length of a Hollywood blockbuster. But if made public - say London intelligence sources - no movie could have their impact." 

Thomas says that Diana is now known to have made these tapes months before her death. 

"The tapes were shot in March, 1997, five months before her death. Diana sat 
before a VHS video camera in the main drawing room of her home, Kensington Palace,, and spoke in all for 12 hours over a period of ten days." 

Thomas says that "only one other person knew she had made the tapes, Dodi al-Fayed. His father, Mohammed al-Fayed, confirmed he wants the Royal Coroner, Dr Michael Burgess, to listen to the tapes - and compare them with the 1,050 intercepts NSA made later that year. " 

Mohammed al-Fayed has sued the NSA in order to receive copies of the tapes. 

The fact that the GLOBE has re-published this information makes me think that the "war" I have talked about -- the one between the Factions - may be getting ready to break out into the public. 

It's my belief that the Bush Administration could care less about the Queen and her problems. The Queen is only kept in place by the New World Order. Without the backing of the NWO, the monarchy in England would go the way of the rest of the world's monarchies... in the dustbin of history!! 

If the Bush administration releases the NSA tapes, will the NWO continue to back the English royal family, or will it allow the Royals to fall on their own swords? 

It's well known that the two factions of the CIA control the tabloids. It seems to me that the GLOBE has just fired a warning shot across the bow of the NWO. It will be interesting to see what else surfaces in the coming weeks!

Di's hoard of secret videos destroyed

Secret confessional videos made by Diana, Princess of Wales - which would have caused huge embarrassment to the royal family if they had been made public - have been destroyed.

Di's hoard of secret videos destroyed

London Observer
Secret confessional videos made by Diana, Princess of Wales - which would have caused huge embarrassment to the royal family if they had been made public - have been destroyed. 

Royal sources say the videos, recorded by a former BBC cameraman, who is now believed to be living abroad, were seized when detectives raided the home of Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler, in Cheshire two years ago. 

The videos featured an emotional Diana discussing her life following her divorce from Prince Charles and an allegation that a courtier close to a senior royal raped one of his male colleagues. 

This is the same allegation that Diana reputedly recorded on the infamous audio tape whose whereabouts is now the subject of a media frenzy. 

On the audio tape the princess recorded George Smith, a former aide to Charles, alleging that he was raped by a senior courtier. Smith is also recorded saying he has seen the same courtier involved in a sex act with a member of the royal family. 

The audio tape was among a number of items which Diana called her 'crown jewels', kept in a mahogany box that her sister, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, had asked Burrell to look after. 

Until now the whereabouts of the videos, which contained a series of character assassinations of each royal, had remained as mysterious as the location of the audio tape. Now well-placed sources say the videos were handed to a third party and have been destroyed. 

The news will intensify speculation on the whereabouts of the audio tape which is still thought to exist and is said by royal sources to constitute a 'ticking time-bomb'. Speculation has focused on whether Burrell has the tape, something that he has always denied. 

However, during his trial, a royal protection officer recalled seeing Burrell remove a mahogany box in the early hours of one morning soon after Diana's death. The box itself was eventually returned to McCorquodale, minus its contents. 

As a furore blew up around the publication of Burrell's book, A Royal Duty, the former butler hinted last week that he had more material that could damage the royal family, again triggering speculation about where the tape is. 

Detective Chief Inspector Maxine de Brunner who was among the police who raided Burrell's home, recalls a meeting on 17 May 2001 with Fiona Shackleton, Charles's lawyer, and McCorquodale, during which the tape's whereabouts were discussed. 

De Brunner recalled that Shackleton said: 'I know all about the rape [tape]. I was asked to make it go away - it was one of the lowest points in my professional career.' 

When Shackleton then asked who had the tape, McCorquodale replied: 'Paul Burrell has it.' De Brunner was concerned about Shackleton's comments that she had been asked to 'make it go away' and told her superiors there might have been an attempt to suppress Smith's rape allegation - a claim he later retracted. 

However Smith, who now works in a hospital in South Wales, repeated his story in the Mail on Sunday a year ago. Last week Smith told the paper he hoped the contents of the tape would not be made public. 'It would have terrible consequences,' he said. 

In a sign that Clarence House is determined to put the matter behind it once and for all, Princes William and Harry issued an unprecedented joint appeal to Burrell not to make further revelations. William is to meet his mother's former aide soon in what palace insiders say represents an attempt to establish the whereabouts of the tape, the last remaining link to the rape allegation now that the videos have been destroyed and Smith has taken a vow of silence. 

Smith's original allegation - ridiculed by senior courtiers - nevertheless presented Charles's aides with a serious dilemma. As Shackleton observed in a letter on 14 November 1996, setting out Smith's generous redundancy package: 'I suspect the bottom line in all this is that the [royal] household is caught over a barrel. Regardless of the accuracy or otherwise of George's allegations it would not presumably want those allegations to appear in print.' 

The seeds of the current furore, which has caused acute consternation at Clarence House, were sown on 7 October 1996 when Smith walked into Hounslow police station in west London and said a man had threatened him with a gun as he made his way home. 

Distressed and at times rambling incoherently, Smith cut a sorry figure to the officers who heard his claim. A former Army corporal, he had served in the Falklands and was traumatised by seeing friends burnt on HMS Sir Galahad, on which 50 guardsmen died as it was attacked by Argentine jets in June 1982. He became a heavy drinker and suffered mental illness. 

Despite doubts about the veracity of his claim, police officers visited Smith's home and studied local closed-circuit TV footage. The footage revealed nothing to substantiate Smith's claim. 

Here Smith's story might have been consigned to a yellowing file in the police station if he hadn't then told the officers he had been raped by a senior courtier. He recalled how one afternoon he had Sunday lunch at the courtier's house and had quaffed gin and tonics and champagne before falling asleep on a sofa. He awoke to find that his trousers had been pulled down and he had been sexually assaulted. 

Smith later retracted this allegation, saying his alleged attacker was 'too powerful' for him to pursue it, but he repeated it to Diana on tape a few months later. 

Whether the story is fact or fiction, the tape's existence continues to haunt the monarchy. One well-placed source, familiar with its contents, said: 'The royal family has to make a decision. If Burrell has the tape, do they try to buy him off or manage the explosion themselves? 

'I am reminded of what Kissinger said: "If it's going to come out at the end, it may as well come out at the beginning."'

The Murder of Princess Diana

• Special Report

   

  [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.

   

• Diana — was it an accident or was she killed?  (It's pretty clear that she was murdered.)

   

• The 'MI6 factor' in the murder of Princess Diana

   

• US Spy Tapes Reveal Diana Was Pregnant

   

• Princess Diana's Death: Did MI6 Kill Her?

   

• Princess Diana Was The Target

   

• The Diana Forum — Why did it take an hour to get Diana to the hospital? Why did the ambulance stop for ten minutes when just 600 yards away from it? Was she murdered, or brought close to death, by British agents when the ambulance was stopped? Was the purpose of this 10-minute stop to induce an abortion?

   

  

   

• Diana's Grave Secret: Police To Probe Charles' Murder Plot

   

  It was clear that with opinion polls showing over 90% of Britons think Diana was murdered, something would have to be done to mount at least a semblance of justice. And a semblance is what we have here.

  The appointment of an already knighted senior police officer, Sir John Stevens to the investigation, indicates that the whole exercise is a sham. Furthermore, Sir John has assigned Commander David Armond to lead the inquiry. Commander Armond is a member of the Met's anti-terrorist branch which is a very political position ...

  All this is reminiscent of the case of the murdered weapons inspector David Kelly. The British establishment simply engaging in the usual sham of investigating itself.

   

• Joe Vialls: Prince Charles Implicated in Murder of Princess Diana

   

  Logic dictates Princess Di was deliberately frightened into writing the incriminating letter before her death, but science suggests that she did not write the letter at all.

   

• Document says Diana's car was replacement

  (That web page was "disappeared" but is available here.)

   

  The car in the crash that killed Princess Diana in Paris was a last-minute replacement either meant as a media diversion or because the vehicle she was supposed to take failed to start, according to British government documents released Tuesday [2005-03-15].

   

• Xymphora on Henri Paul's mysterious payments

   

 

So here's a possible scenario: Diana was (possibly) pregnant by Dodi. The US/British power elite either knew this (perhaps her doctor's office was bugged) or were afraid it might be true. The prospect of someone of Arab descent (and perhaps a Muslim too) being in line to the British throne was anathema to the racist British establishment, and the Americans were concerned about what they saw as Diana's populist political activities (campaigning for an abolition of land mines and so on, with maybe the international arms trade targetted next) so the decision was made to eliminate her. The Mercedes in which she was supposed to leave the Ritz Hotel with Dodi failed to start (as intended by the plotters) and a replacement was produced. The brakes on the replacement car had been sabotaged. Henri Paul, their driver, sped off, followed by paparazzi, one of whom was in contact by phone with the driver of a white Fiat. The Fiat entered the Pont d'Alma Tunnel as Diana's car approached it. Somewhere in the tunnel, with the white Fiat just in front of the Mercedes, a powerful flashgun, aimed at Paul's car, was set off. This blinded Paul, and he hit the brakes, which did not work properly, ensuring that the car would crash. But the crash did not kill Diana. Much to the chagrin of the plotters, she was still alive. An ambulance (previously arranged by the plotters) was brought up and took her away, allegedly taking her to the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, 4 miles away. During this trip (which may or may not have involved an abortion) something was done to ensure that Diana would be dead on arrival at the hospital, or would die shortly afterward. The potential problem was thus removed.

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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.

JB Ehrlich
Geopolitical Analyst
Sender, Berl & Sons Inc.
September 14, 1997
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http://www.senderberl.com/diana3.htm
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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.

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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