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Princess Diana Murder
Cover-Up Turns Deadly
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Nearly
three years after the Paris car crash that claimed the lives of
Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, the cover-up of that tragedy has taken a
deadly turn, prompting some experts to recall the pileup of corpses
that followed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Over the
course of four years, after President Kennedy was shot on Nov. 22,
1963, at least 37 eyewitnesses and other sources of evidence about the
crime, including one member of the infamous Warren Commission, which
oversaw the cover-up, died under mysterious circumstances. On May 5,
2000, police in the south of France found a badly burned body inside
the wreckage of a car, deep in the woods near Nantes. The body was so
charred that it took police nearly a month before DNA tests confirmed
that the dead man was Jean-Paul "James" Andanson, a 54-year-old
millionaire photographer, who was among the paparazzi stalking Princess
Diana and Dodi Fayed during the week before their deaths. From the day
of the fatal crash in the Place de l'Alma tunnel, that killed Diana,
Dodi, and driver Henri Paul, and severely injured bodyguard Trevor
Rees-Jones, Andanson had been at the center of the controversy. Mohamed
Al-Fayed, the father of Dodi Fayed, and the owner of Harrods Department
Store in London and the Paris Ritz Hotel, has labelled the Aug. 31,
1997 crash a murder, ordered by the British royal family, and most
likely executed through agents and assets of the British secret
intelligence service MI6--with collusion from French officials, whose
cooperation in the cover-up would have been essential. At least seven
eyewitnesses to the crash said that they saw a white Fiat Uno and a
motorcycle speed out of the tunnel, seconds after the crash. Forensic
tests have confirmed that a white Fiat Uno collided with the Mercedes
carrying Diana and Dodi, and that this collision was a significant
factor in the crash. Several eyewitnesses told police that they saw a
powerful flash of light just seconds before the Mercedes swerved out of
control and crashed into the 13th pillar of the Alma tunnel. That
bright light--either a camera flash or a far more powerful flash of a
laser weapon--was probably fired by the passenger on the back of the
speeding motorcycle. Both the motorcycle and the white Fiat fled the
crash scene, and police claim they have been unable to locate either
vehicle, or identify the drivers or the passengers.
Andanson's White Fiat
Andanson
had been in and around Sardinia during the last week of August 1997, as
Diana and Dodi vacationed in the Mediterranean. He joined several dozen
other paparazzi, who were stalking the couple's every move. He was back
in France on Aug. 30, the day that Diana and Dodi flew to Paris. And
that is where the facts about Andanson's activities and whereabouts get
very fuzzy. For reasons that he never revealed, sometime before dawn on
Aug. 31, 1997, less than six hours after the crash in the Alma tunnel,
Andanson boarded a flight at Orly Airport near Paris, bound for
Corsica. Andanson claimed that he was not in Paris earlier in the
evening, when the crash occurred, but he never produced any evidence,
save a receipt for the purchase of gasoline elsewhere in France (which
he could have doctored or obtained from another person), to prove he
was not in the city. His son James and his daughter Kimberly told
police that they thought their father was grape-harvesting in the
Bordeaux region. Andanson's wife Elizabeth claimed that she had been at
home with her husband all night, at their country home, Le Manoir de la
Bergerie, in Cher, until he abruptly left for Orly, at 3:45 a.m., to
catch the crack-of-dawn flight to Corsica. Pressed on her version of
the story, Mrs. Anderson later admitted to reporters and police that
her husband was constantly on the run, and she could have been mistaken
about the night in question. She told The Express, a British newspaper,
"It was always very difficult to recall James's precise movements
because he was always coming and going. The family was very used to
that and so never paid a great deal of attention to the times he came
and went." What makes Andanson's precise itinerary the night of the
fatal crash so vital is this: He owned and drove a white Fiat Uno. The
car was repainted shortly after the Aug. 31, 1997 Alma tunnel crash,
and was sold by Andanson in October 1997. And, although the official
report of the French authorities investigating the crash concluded that
Andanson's car was not involved in the crash, French forensic reports
made available to The Express told a very different story. One report
in the files of Judge Hervé Stephan, the chief investigating magistrate
in the Diana-Dodi crash probe, described the tests on Andanson's Fiat:
"The comparative analysis of the infrared spectra characterizing the
vehicle's original paint, reference Bianco 210, and the trace on the
side-view mirror of the Mercedes shows that their absorption bands are
identical." In laymen's terms, the paint scratches from the Fiat found
on the side-view mirror of the Mercedes were identical to the paint
samples taken from the matching spot on Andanson's Fiat. The report
continued: "The comparative analysis between the infrared spectra
characterizing the black polymer taken from the vehicle's fender, and
the trace taken from the door of the Mercedes, show that their
absorption bands are identical." In short, despite the French
investigators' endorsement of Andanson's alibi, the forensic tests
strongly suggested that his car may have been the white Fiat Uno
involved in the fatal crash. John Macnamara, the Harrods director of
security, and a retired senior Scotland Yard supervisor of
investigations, told reporters: "Mr. Andanson had for some time been a
prime suspect who had relentlessly pursued Diana and Dodi prior to
their arrival in Paris. We have always believed that Andanson was at
the scene and that more investigation should have been done into his
possible involvement." Macnamara added, "We believe that his death is
no coincidence and that this is a line of inquiry which may help to
discover the truth. Was Mr. Andanson killed because of what he knew?
That is a question we want answered."
Needless to say, Andanson's death stirred up renewed interest in Diana's death at a most inopportune time for the British royals, and those in France who abetted the cover-up. Sometime in September, an appellate court in Paris will rule on Al-Fayed's motion to order Judge Stephan to reopen the crash probe, based on the fact that Stephan shut down his probe before certain vital avenues of inquiry were fully explored, and in contradiction to his own interim report, which cited several glaring paradoxes in the evidence that remained unresolved at the point that he abruptly closed down his investigation last year and blamed the crash on driver Henri Paul. For example, U.S. intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, have all acknowledged, in response to Freedom of Information Act queries, that they have thousands of pages of documents on Princess Diana. Those documents, for the most part, remain under lock and key. In addition to those documents and other relevant evidence, it has been recently exposed that a secret U.S.-U.K. joint surveillance program, code-named "Project Echelon," had apparently been involved in round-the-clock monitoring of Princess Diana's telephone conversations, while she was at home in England and travelling around the globe. Until the contents of these U.S. government files and electronic intercepts have been reviewed by French investigators, Al-Fayed's lawyers have argued, the probe cannot be considered complete. And the U.S. Justice Department continues to stonewall on indicting three Americans who were involved in an attempted $20 million extortion of Al-Fayed in April 1998, centered around purported "CIA documents" proving that British intelligence assassinated Diana and Dodi. While the "CIA documents" seized from one of the plotters have been confirmed to have been clever forgeries, questions remain about the accuracy of the content of the documents. In a flagrant effort to dampen interest in the Andanson factor, the June 11 Mail on Sunday, a pro-royalist tabloid, ran a story proclaiming "Wife's Affair Led to Paparazzi Man's Car Blaze Suicide." The Mail on Sunday dutifully peddled the French government's cover story: "The millionaire photographer who trailed Diana, Princess of Wales in St. Tropez just days before her death, committed suicide when he discovered his wife was cheating on him, French police have revealed. . . . The eccentric millionaire--who was hailed by colleagues as one of the godfathers of paparazzi photography, and who flew a Union Flag over his house to show his love of Britain--was facing a family crisis at the time of his death." Mail on Sunday reporter Ian Sparks quoted an unnamed colleague of Andanson's at the Sipa Agency in Paris, making the preposterously contradictory claim that Andanson "was desperate to save his marriage. We would never have guessed he would do something so terrible." He committed suicide to save his marriage! Right. A French police spokesman told Sparks, "He took his own life by dousing himself and the car with petrol and then setting light to it." Andanson's widow Elizabeth, and their son James have rejected the idea that Andanson's death was suicide. Sources close to the family told EIR that they have pressed French officials to conduct a murder investigation into Andanson's death 400-miles from his home. The sources dismiss the bogus "marital problems" story and additionally report that Andanson was in high spirits over his new job with the Sipa Agency.
The Plot Thickens
Just after midnight on June 16, just one week after Andanson's death was first made public, three masked men armed with handguns, broke into the Sipa office in Paris, shooting a security guard in the foot. The three assailants dismantled all of the security cameras in the office, and proceeded to enter several specific offices, clearly aware of exactly what they were looking for. They made off with several cameras, laptop computers, and computer hard drives. Sipa's office employs more than 200 people, and operates 24-hours a day. The three invaders spent three hours in the office, holding other employees hostage. According to one of the hostages, the men were never concerned about the French police arriving at the scene. This hostage was convinced that the three "burglars" were themselves working for some branch of the French Secret Service. Furthermore, the source confirmed that Andanson had worked for French and, undoubtedly, British security agencies. The owner of Sipa, Sipa Hioglou, has worked closely with French intelligence, and, not surprisingly, has been one of the primary sources of the "marital problems/suicide" cover story about Andanson's death, "confessing" to French police and reporters that Andanson had confided in him that he planned to take his own life. Hioglou, in the days following the bizarre break-in and hostage siege of his office, also told police that he suspected that the raid was done on behalf of a disgruntled celebrity who was angry that her picture had been taken by a Sipa paparazzo without her permission. In stark contrast, other Sipa employees have told the police that the idea that Andanson committed suicide was preposterous, and that they suspect that the break-in was related to his death.
What Is Going On?The Sipa raid, the obvious work of French Secret Service assets, raises some very troubling questions. If Macnamara and Al-Fayed are right, and Andanson was at the crash site on Aug. 31, 1997, and his white Fiat was the car that collided with the Mercedes, what documentation exists of his presence at the tunnel? What photographs exist of the crash scene, and what do they reveal? Was some of this material seized from the Sipa offices in the recent break-in, to assure that it never sees the light of day? Evidence has recently come to light, that within hours of the crash, British and French secret service agencies carried out a series of similar break-ins at the homes and offices of several photo-agency personnel, in a desperate search for photos of the crash site that may have been transmitted in the hours immediately after the Alma tunnel collision, and before word of Princess Diana's death was made public. EIR has obtained copies of sworn statements from two London-based photographers, Darryn Paul Lyons and Lionel Cherruault, which reveal that British intelligence was hyperactive in the hours immediately after the Alma tunnel crash, desperately seeking any revealing photographs that might have been spirited out of Paris. Lyons identified himself as the "Chairman of `Big Pictures,' . . . an international photographic agency in London, New York, and Sydney, specializing in obtaining and selling unique and exclusive celebrity-based photographs." At 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 31, 1997, Lyons received a phone call from a Paris paparazzo, Lorent Sola, who said that he had a dozen photographs of the accident at the Alma tunnel. Sola offered to electronically transmit the photos to Lyons immediately, and Lyons rushed off to his office, receiving the high-resolution photographs at approximately 3 a.m. Lyons immediately began negotiating with several large news organizations in the United States and Britain to sell the pictures for $250,000. Lyons and Sola conferred after word of Diana's death was made public, and they decided to withdraw the offer of the pictures. Copies of the photos were placed in Lyons' office safe. Sometime between 11 p.m. on Aug. 31 and 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 1, the electricity at Lyons' office was mysteriously cut, although no other power outages in the office building or the neighborhood occurred. Lyons, convinced that either the office was being robbed, or bombed, called the police. In his sworn statement, Lyons declared that he believed that secret service agents had broken into his office and either searched the premises or planted surveillance and listening devices. Lionel Cherruault, a London-based photo journalist for Sipa Agency, in his sworn statement, reported that, at 1:45 a.m. on Aug. 31, 1997, he received a call at his home from a freelance photographer in Florida, informing him that he was expecting to soon be in possession of photographs of the tunnel crash. Cherruault told the Florida contact that he was interested. After word of Diana's death was announced, the deal fell through. But Cherruault, who was in contact with his boss at Sipa, stated that, at approximately 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 1, while he and his wife and daughter were asleep, his home was broken into, his wife's car was stolen, and his car was moved. Computer disks used for transmitting photographs, and other electronic equipment, were stolen, and the front door of their home was left wide open. Even though cash, credit cards, and jewelry were visible in the study where the burglars stole the computer equipment, none of those valuables were taken, making it clear that this was not an ordinary break-in. The next day, a police officer came to Cherruault's home and confirmed that the break-in was clearly the work of "Special Branch, MI5, MI6, call it what you like, this was no ordinary burglary." The officer said that the home had "been targetted." The man, whose name Cherruault was unable to recall, assured him "not to worry, your lives were not in danger," according to the sworn statement. The official police report of the Cherruault break-in, which has been reviewed by EIR, confirmed that "The computer equipment stolen contained a huge library of royal photographs and appears to have been the main target for the perpetrators."
Another Thread of the Cover-Up
One
of the other still-unresolved issues in the Alma crash probe, three
years after the fact, revolves around the medical evidence. Al-Fayed
has been battling in court in Britain for the right to participate in
the official inquest into the death of Princess Diana, arguing that
since both Diana and Dodi died in the crash, therefore he should be
entitled to officially participate in both inquests. The courts have
preliminarily ruled that he has the right to contest the Royal
Coroner's rejection of his participation in the Diana inquest, which
will only occur after the French appellate process has been completed,
sometime later this year. However, in April of this year, the attorneys
representing Al-Fayed received a copy of a suppressed memorandum,
prepared by Professors Dominique Lecomte and Andre Lienhart, two French
forensic pathologists working for Judge Stephan, suggesting that
British authorities, including the Royal Coroner, Dr. Burton, had
interceded to conceal some aspects of the official British autopsy. The
two French doctors were in London on June 23, 1998, where they met with
British coroners Drs. Burton and Burgess, forensic pathologist Dr.
Chapman, and Scotland Yard Superintendant Jeffrey Rees. They were given
copies of the English autopsy report on Princess Diana, but, according
to their contemporaneous notes on the meeting, were told that the
document was provided for their "private and personal use," and that it
should not be included in the formal file of Judge Stephan. Any
material in that official investigative file was automatically made
available to attorneys representing all the interested parties in the
French probe, including Al-Fayed's attorneys. This two-and-a-half year
suppression of the Lecomte-Lienhart memorandum has once again raised
serious questions about the legitimacy of the "official" autopsy of the
Princess of Wales, including questions that arose at the time of her
death, as to whether she was pregnant. The mayhem surrounding the
deaths of Diana and Dodi, and now Andanson, raises questions about the
circumstances in Paris on that night in late August 1997--questions
that the House of Windsor in general, and Prince Philip in particular,
have long sought to suppress. The time may be fast approaching that the
well-orchestrated three-year cover-up is about to blow apart, and at
least part of the truth about the death of the "People's Princess" see
the light of day.
And that is something that the Windsors and the mandarins of MI6 may not be able to survive.
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New `Diana Wars' in Britain
Put Focus on LaRouche
by Jeffrey Steinberg
On
June 4, the London Daily Telegraph, the flagship publication of the
British monarchy and the Club of the Isles' Hollinger Corp., published
a crass slander against Lyndon LaRouche, headlined "U.S. Cult Is Source
of Theories." The article charged that LaRouche, EIR, and the New
Federalist newspaper were all behind a "Diana conspiracy industry," and
that LaRouche, in league with London-based billionaire Mohamed Al
Fayed, was "accusing the Queen of ordering the assassination of Diana,
Princess of Wales." Apart from the fact that the article was pure
fiction, there were two significant things about the story--which
accompanied a much longer article that trashed a British Independent
Television (ITV) documentary, entitled "Diana: The Secrets Behind the
Crash," which had aired the previous night, and which had been followed
by a live televised debate on the Princess's death: First, the Daily
Telegraph smear was authored by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, an avowed
British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) stringer, who spent from late
1992 through the spring of 1997 in Washington, D.C. orchestrating a
similar slander campaign against President Bill Clinton. Allowing
Evans-Pritchard's by-line to appear on the "icebox" slander of LaRouche
was a blunder of strategic significance, which underscored the truth
behind LaRouche's charge that all of President Clinton's enemies,
including in the upper echelons of the British oligarchy, are also
enemies of LaRouche. The blunder also underscored the fact that there
is a "battle royal" under way within the British ruling class, which
goes far beyond the issue of the death of Princess Diana. The battle
touches on matters of global geopolitics, and how the British oligarchy
intends to survive the worst, systemic financial breakdown crisis in
modern history. The "Torygraph" slander also marked a decisive break in
the Club of the Isles' policy of keeping LaRouche's name out of print
in Britain. It has been long-recognized by the City of London-centered
financier oligarchical grouping headed by the Royal Consort, Prince
Philip, that LaRouche and EIR have been a powerful factor in exposing
their dirty machinations worldwide, and have also been an important
contributing factor in an eruption of political warfare against the
Windsors, even from among the British elites. The LaRouche role in the
Windsors' troubles came to the surface in 1994, when EIR published "The
Coming Fall of the House of Windsor," a Special Report exposing the
role of Prince Philip and his World Wildlife Fund (WWF, now the World
Wide Fund for Nature), in triggering the worst genocide in modern
history in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Even as EIR's exposés of
the Windsors circulated throughout the world diplomatic community and
among factions of the British establishment, with rare exceptions, the
name "LaRouche" was banned from the British press.[FIGURE 1] All that
changed, beginning with the June 4 Evans-Pritchard diatribe. The
article not only accused LaRouche and EIR of heading the "conspiracy
industry," and of accusing "the Queen of being the world's foremost
drug dealer." But also, it linked LaRouche to Mohamed Al Fayed, Harrods
department store owner and the father of the late Dodi Fayed, in a
campaign, Evans-Pritchard wrote, "aimed at discrediting Tiny Rowland,
Mr. Al Fayed's longtime business rival, ... according to Francesca
Pollard, a former operative for the Fayed security machine." As EIR
revealed in its 1993 unauthorized biography of Rowland, Pollard, whose
family was robbed of its fortune by Rowland, was threatened and then
paid off by Rowland, to be a source of trash against Al Fayed.
Following the Aug. 31, 1997 car crash in Paris that claimed the life of
Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul, Rowland was
deployed by the British royal family to lead a slander and harassment
campaign aimed at silencing Mohamed Al Fayed, who has stated publicly
that he is "99.9% certain" that Diana and Dodi were the victims of a
murder plot.
Battle of the Documentaries
The
trigger for the slanders against LaRouche was the airing of the ITV
documentary on the evening of June 3, followed by a live TV debate,
which featured this author. The ITV documentary provided dramatic new
evidence supporting the case that Diana and Dodi were murdered (see
"New Holes in Cover-Up of Diana Murder Plot," EIR, June 12, 1998), and
highlighted several investigative leads that were first published in
EIR, including the possibility that driver Paul was blinded by an
anti-personnel laser. During the live TV round-table debate, this
author discussed Princess Diana's decade-long war with the House of
Windsor, including the impact of her November 1995 BBC Panorama
interview, in which she charged that her estranged husband, Prince
Charles, was unfit to be King; and, the reaction of the establishment
to her actions, which amounted to a collective shriek, "Off with her
head!" Rowland's personal involvement in the campaign to cover up the
truth about the Paris crash, and to destroy Mohamed Al Fayed, was also
aired, much to the chagrin of the producer and host of a Channel 4
"Dispatches" documentary on the Diana death that aired the following
night. Channel 4 tried to dismiss as fantasy every piece of evidence
refuting the "drunk driver" theory.[FIGURE 2] The Channel 4
"Dispatches" program included a slander of this author and EIR that was
even more explicit on the question of Prince Philip. Although this
author was interviewed on camera for more than two hours by Channel 4
host Martyn Gregory, less than one minute of that interview was shown
on the hour-long "Dispatches" diatribe. And, that brief segment waxed
hysterical about EIR's refusal to "rule out" the possibility that
Prince Philip ordered the murder of Diana and Dodi. Indeed, British
press accounts of the relationship between Prince Philip and Lady
Diana, particularly during the brief period of her relationship with
Dodi Fayed, revealed that the Royal Consort was in a constant blind
rage over Diana's public disdain for the Windsors, and particularly her
implicit challenge to their legitimacy on the British throne. Gregory
was given several pages in the Sunday Telegraph on June 7, to continue
denouncing LaRouche, EIR, and Al Fayed. In an article regurgitating the
"Dispatches" disinformation, Gregory wrote: "The numerous hares Mohamed
Fayed has set running in the colours of sundry conspiracy theories are
typified by Geoffrey [sic] Steinberg, chief reporter of Executive
Intelligence Review, a small-circulation American magazine that
specializes in conspiracy theories. He was yet another guest on the
side of the motley crew supporting ITV's Wednesday night programme.
"This is the man who told Dispatches he `could not rule out the
possibility' that Prince Philip was involved in the `murder of Diana.'
We decided not to take Steinberg seriously at all."
Defending `Mr. Big'
Not
so for MI5, another British intelligence agency. On June 10, Francis
Wheen, a writer for MI5's favorite leak sheet, the political satire
magazine Private Eye, penned another anti-LaRouche diatribe, in the
London Guardian. Wheen, who had published smears against LaRouche in
1996, fixated on EIR's targetting of Prince Philip, whom Wheen
affectionately referred to as "Mr. Big." "Many weird characters enjoyed
their 15 minutes of fame during last week's flurry of TV programmes
about Princess Diana," Wheen began, "but none was weirder than Jeffrey
Steinberg, who appeared on Wednesday night's `studio debate' and again
on Channel 4's Dispatches the next evening. There was, he admitted, `no
smoking-gun proof' that Prince Philip ordered British intelligence to
assassinate the Princess; nevertheless, `I can't rule it out in all
honesty.' " Wheen complained, "So who is he? For some reason, viewers
were not informed that the grand-sounding Executive Intelligence Review
is in fact the weekly propaganda magazine of Lyndon H. LaRouche." Wheen
almost got it right, when he noted, "Executive Intelligence Review has
supported Al Fayed in his vendetta against Tiny Rowland and Lonrho; and
when Michael Howard refused Al Fayed's application for British
citizenship, LaRouche published a defamatory article about the family
connection between Howard and Harold Landy, the former chairman of a
Lonrho subsidiary." Wheen then digressed into the ID-format slander
that was perfected by the mid-1980s dirty tricks slander salon, run by
Wall Street Anglophile spook banker John Train, as part of the "Get
LaRouche" task force of the U.S. Justice Department and private
agencies that framed up and railroaded LaRouche to prison. Wheen
recited the litany of smears: LaRouche says "the Queen runs an
international cocaine smuggling cartel," that "Henry Kissinger is a
communist agent," and, interestingly, that "the Italian banker Roberto
Calvi was murdered by the Duke of Kent." (Calvi was himself a member of
the extended royal family.)
International terrorism
Wheen
then touched on another sore spot of the House of Windsor and Club of
the Isles: the British hand in sponsoring and harboring international
terrorism. He tried to twist EIR's exposé of London's role in
safe-housing dozens of major terrorist organizations, a fact the U.S.
State Department and the CIA have acknowledged in written documents.
"In recent years," Wheen wrote, "LaRouche and Steinberg have been
pursuing another `unique' theory--that `international terrorism' is
masterminded by none other than Lord [William] Rees-Mogg and the Daily
Telegraph reporter Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.... LaRouche claims [that]
Rees-Mogg and Evans-Pritchard are part of a `powerful London-centerd
apparatus that declared war on the United States immediately after the
inauguration of President Clinton.' Whitewater, Troopergate, Paula
Jones, Monica Lewinsky--all these scandals can be traced back to our
double-barreled desperadoes.... But Rees-Mogg and Evans-Pritchard are
merely servants of the `powerful London-centered apparatus.' The Mr.
Big whose orders they obey is Prince Philip.... The intention,
according to LaRouche, is to discredit, and destabilise the U.S. until
it is forced to become a British colony once again, thus taking the
House of Windsor another giant stride on its road to world domination."
Wheen continued, "Only one person in Britain was powerful enough to
thwart the conspiracy--Princess Diana, who had `declared war' on the
royal family in her Panorama interview. And so she had to be killed."
Wheen ended on a curious, slightly ominous, note: "This alliance
between Al Fayed and Lyndon LaRouche seems risky, to say the least. Why
should a prominent public figure aid and abet such an unscrupulous
fantasy-merchant? If LaRouche doesn't wish to sully his reputation, he
must disown Al Fayed forthwith," Wheen wrote. A half-dozen other
slanders followed the Guardian article, in the Scotsman, on BBC-4
Radio, and even in the Danish press. One factor that clearly got the
royals' blood boiling was that, according to the major British TV
rating service, 12.5 million Britons watched the ITV documentary, and
most of them also watched the studio debate that followed the evening
news. On June 4, German national television aired the entire ITV
broadcast, and major German dailies published lengthy excerpts from the
transcript. In contrast, fewer than 3 million British viewers watched
the Channel 4 smear the following evening. And, a Mirror newspaper
poll, published on June 7, suggested that an overwhelming majority of
Britons are convinced that there was more to the death of Diana than a
traffic accident.
The Strategic Battle
As
EIR has said from day one, the death of Princess Diana is the scandal
that could hasten the fall of the House of Windsor. But, the future of
the Club of the Isles oligarchy hangs in the balance today in a number
of ways. The probe in Paris of Diana's death, if it turns up compelling
evidence of a murder, or even of aggravated manslaughter caused by a
paparazzi mob notorious for its links to British intelligence and the
Crown apparatus, would certainly bring down both the Windsors and the
current Socialist government in France, which also is deeply implicated
in the crash and the cover-up. On other fronts, the British
establishment is torn over how to deal with the onrush of the financial
collapse. Prince Philip and his circle have no compunctions about
throwing the world into decades of chaos and genocide, in order to
retain oligarchical control. But other, less insane forces within the
City of London financial elite are apparently asking, "What do we get
out of such chaos and destruction?" and may be seeking a new political
alliance, perhaps with the United States, and sane forces on the
continent who are opposed to the suicidal Maastricht Treaty. Other
issues that are causing divisions among the British elites include
Britain's stance on the European Monetary Union, and the euro single
curency. Furthermore, factions on the continent that share Prince
Philip's impulse to play "chaos warfare," may be pressing for a new
assault on the Asian currencies, including the Japanese yen, through
the major continental banks and their offshore hedge funds, even though
such a move at this moment would almost certainly trigger a global
financial explosion with unpredictable consequences. Within the
extended European oligarchy, which has, for decades, been under the
boot of Prince Philip's Club of the Isles, there is intensive
in-fighting and factional warfare, adding further to the crisis
atmosphere spreading across Eurasia. The common point of agreement
among the "chaos" factions within the British and continental
oligarchies, is that the power of the United States, as the pillar of
the nation-state system, must be destroyed in the immediate period
ahead, lest LaRouche's ideas for a nation-state-centered New Bretton
Woods solution to the present global mess, be adopted, along with
LaRouche's vision for a Eurasian Land-Bridge plan of global economic
reconstructed.
New holes in cover-up of
Diana murder plot
Shortly after midnight, on Aug. 30-31, 1997, David Laurent, an off-duty senior French police official, was driving alone in his car on the right bank of the Seine River, heading toward the Place de l'Alma tunnel where, moments later, Diana Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul would die in a car crash. As he drove, Laurent was passed by a speeding white Fiat Uno, according to accounts he provided nine months ago to French Criminal Brigade police probing the Diana crash. As he approached the tunnel, Laurent noticed that the Fiat Uno that had sped by him, was now crawling along in the right traffic lane, almost at a standstill, just before the tunnel entrance. Although the behavior of the Fiat driver was a bit bizarre, Laurent drove on. It was, after all, Saturday night on the final weekend of the summer, and there were a lot of strange goings-on on the streets of Paris. Less than a moment later, however, Laurent heard a loud explosion from inside the tunnel, as he was driving a short distance ahead. It was not until the next morning that Laurent realized that the explosion he had heard from inside the tunnel was the crash that claimed the lives of Diana and her companions. And it was not until several weeks later that police forensic tests confirmed that the crash had been caused by a collision between the Mercedes 280-S carrying Diana, Fayed, Paul, and bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash, and a Fiat Uno. Within hours of the crash, police at the scene had gathered up evidence--a side mirror and fragments of a tail light--suggesting that a two-car collision had occurred. A police sketch, drawn at the crash site, labeled a section of the tunnel the "collision zone." Several witnesses, interviewed during the first week after the crash, had described a small hatchback car, cutting in front of the Mercedes at the tunnel entrance, jamming its breaks inside the tunnel, fleeing the crash scene, and so on. But, until Laurent's critical piece of the story became public in early June, the role of the Fiat had remained ambiguous--despite the fact that the car and its driver have disappeared. Was the missing Fiat tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was it critical to the most spectacular vehicular homicide in history? Laurent's description of the Fiat, speeding to a spot near the tunnel entrance, less than a minute ahead of Diana's car, which was under chase from several other cars and motorcycles, strongly suggests the latter possibility. For reasons yet unexplained, Laurent's crucial eyewitness account was withheld from the chief investigating magistrate, Hervé Stephan, for months. .
Tampering with evidence
This
is not the first time that the French police in charge of the
investigation have tampered with evidence. Within hours of the crash,
French police had told reporters that the Mercedes carrying Diana had
been travelling at speeds of more than 120 miles per hour. How did they
know? They told reporters that the speedometer of the mangled Mercedes
had been frozen at more than 120 mph. EIR investigators determined that
the French "leak" had to be a lie. Daimler Benz safety experts had told
EIR reporters that, in any crash, the speedometer immediately goes back
to zero. Two weeks later, the French police "corrected" the error; but
this time, the media scarcely reported the correction. Similarly,
French police had lied to reporters that Diana had been pinned in the
rear compartment of the Mercedes, and saying that this was why it took
so long to get her into an ambulance and to a hospital. Photographic
evidence and eyewitness accounts later proved that it, too, was a
premeditated lie by the French police. In the case of the Laurent
testimony, sources tell EIR that the police have claimed that they have
withheld certain vital evidence from Magistrate Stephan, to avoid the
information falling into the hands of the attorneys for the paparazzi.
The police allegedly claimed that their investigation "would be
jeopardized" if the paparazzi were to learn crucial details. The
Laurent revelation, which was leaked to the London Daily Mirror on June
4 by a well-placed French police source, was not the only new piece of
evidence to emerge in early June. On June 3, the British independent
television network ITV aired a one-hour investigative report, "Diana:
The Secrets Behind the Crash," that seriously discredits French police
claims that driver Henri Paul was drunk at the time of the crash.
Carbon monoxide found in Paul's blood
The
assertion that Paul was drunk and high on two prescription drugs is
pivotal to the ongoing effort, by the French government and the British
establishment, to cast the crash as nothing more than a case of
reckless, drunk driving. The claim that Paul had blood alcohol levels
three times the legal limit at the time of the crash, was based solely
on tests conducted by French coroners within hours of the crash.
Independent forensic experts, including Dr. Peter Vanesis of the
University of Glasgow, who reviewed the autopsy report, had harsh
criticisms of the post mortem on numerous technical grounds. The ITV
report revealed that the forensic tests also showed a near-lethal level
of carbon monoxide as well. EIR has independently learned that it was a
separate toxicological test on Paul's blood sample, that revealed a
carbon monoxide level of more than 30% at the time of the crash. Yet,
Dodi Fayed had no carbon monoxide in his blood. Is it possible that
Paul could have had high levels of alcohol, traces of two prescription
drugs, and toxic levels of carbon monoxide in his blood at the moment
of the crash, and yet Fayed had no carbon monoxide present? Not if the
carbon monoxide was inside the passenger cabin of the Mercedes.
Furthermore, if Paul had been somehow poisoned with carbon monoxide
sometime prior to getting behind the wheel of the Mercedes, experts
interviewed by ITV say he would have shown obvious signs, such as
dizziness, loss of balance, loss of depth perception, and an
unbearable, throbbing pain in his temple. Security camera video footage
of Paul, taken in the lobby of the Ritz Hotel between 9 p.m. and
midnight, and aired in the ITV documentary, clearly showed that Paul
had none of the tell-tale signs of being drunk or suffering from the
effects of carbon monoxide. In a live television interview, aired one
hour after the ITV broadcast, the documentary's host, Nicholas Owen,
stated that he believed that the blood sample used in the post mortem
was probably not taken from Paul. There were a dozen other corpses in
the Paris city morgue at the time that Paul was brought in. This
startling conclusion by Owen, adds further weight to EIR's charge that
the French police--as distinct from chief investigating Magistrate
Stephan--have been running a vicious cover-up of the events surrounding
the crash. The ITV documentary also cited several eyewitness accounts
that a powerful burst of light inside the tunnel, seconds before the
crash, may have blinded Paul. Owen showed a commercially produced
anti-personnel laser, that he purchased in a Paris shop for $300, to
buttress the possibility that such a device was used in the vehicular
attack. EIR Counterintelligence Director Jeffrey Steinberg appeared
along with Owen and a half-dozen other investigators and expert
analysts on the nationally televised interview show. Details of that
broadcast and the vortex of media controversy, sparked by the ITV show
and a second documentary, aired on June 4 on Channel Four TV in
Britain, will appear in a forthcoming EIR
(see also, the Editorial in this issue).
In
a move that promises to raise even more questions about what happened
in the Paris tunnel on Aug. 31, 1997, Magistrate Stephan convened an
extraordinary group interrogation, or "confrontation," on June 5, at
the Justice Ministry in Paris. Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi's father and a
civil party to the case, was invited to participate, as were a dozen
eyewitnesses to the crash. The nine paparazzi who stand to be
prosecuted for manslaughter and interference in the rescue effort, were
also interrogated by Stephan. Details of what took place are not yet
available.
in the murder
of Princess Diana can be found in EIR's 1997 Special Report,
The True Story Behind the Fall of the House of Windsor.
This article appears in the
June 19, 1998 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
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EIR Reveals How Diana Murder Cover-up Has Turned Deadly
June
30, 2000 (EIRNS)--The July 7, 2000 issue of Executive Intelligence
Review features a detailed report on the mysterious death of French
paparazzo James Andanson, one of the pivotal figures in the Aug. 31,
1997 fatal car crash in Paris, that claimed the lives of Princess
Diana, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul. Andanson's body was found in a
desolate forest in the south of France, burned beyond recognition, on
May 5, 2000.
June 30, 2000 (EIRNS)--The July 7, 2000 issue of Executive
Intelligence Review
features a detailed report on the mysterious death of French paparazzo
James Andanson, one of the pivotal figures in the Aug. 31, 1997 fatal
car crash in Paris, that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, Dodi
Fayed, and Henri Paul. Andanson's body was found in a desolate forest
in the south of France, burned beyond recognition, on May 5, 2000.
A week after his bizarre death, which French authorities have attempted to label a "suicide," three armed, masked men broke into the Paris offices of the Sipa Agency, the photography agency where Andanson was working at the time of his death, and stole computer disks, laptops, and cameras. The three men were believed to be agents of the French secret service, hunting for possibly incriminating photographs of the crash site that Andanson may have been hiding.
The EIR story details the fact that Andanson, who owned a white Fiat Uno at the time of the 1997 crash, was a prime suspect in the Diana and Dodi wrongful deaths, yet French investigators accepted his alibi that he was not in Paris at the time of the crash. Tests of the paint and bumper scratches on his Fiat matched those on the side of the Mercedes carrying Diana and Dodi, according to forensic reports contained in the files of chief investigating magistrate, Herve Stephan. EIR also uncovered other break-ins and surpression of crucial evidence by both British and French intelligence services.
Nearly three years after the fatal crash, the true circumstances are still being covered up, and the EIR story breaks new ground in exposing that cover-up. This story is "must" reading for anyone who has been attempting to get to the bottom of the Diana-Dodi deaths. As one specialist told EIR, "The death of Andanson may very well signal a new, deadly turn in the cover-up of the death of Princess Diana. It is reminiscent of the pile of corpses that littered the landscape following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, when scores of individuals with knowledge about the President's death, died under mysterious circumstances.
This article appears in the
June 19, 1998 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
Comprehensive background on the circles implicated in the murder
of Princess Diana can be found in EIR's 1997 Special Report,
The True Story Behind the Fall of the House of Windsor
The True Story Behind the Fall of the House of Windsor
This article appears in the July 7, 2000 issue
of Executive Intelligence Review.
This article appeared in the June 12, 1998 issue
of Executive Intelligence Review.
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Comprehensive background on the circles implicated in the murder
of Princess Diana can be found in EIR's 1997 Special Report,
The True Story Behind the Fall of the House of Windsor.
This article appears in the
June 19, 1998 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
French paparazzo James Andanson, one of the pivotal figures in the Aug. 31, 1997 fatal car crash in Paris, that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul. Andanson's body was found in a desolate forest in the south of France, burned beyond recognition, on May 5, 2000. June 30, 2000 (EIRNS)--The July 7, 2000 issue of Executive Intelligence Review features a detailed report on the mysterious death of French paparazzo James Andanson, one of the pivotal figures in the Aug. 31, 1997 fatal car crash in Paris, that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul. Andanson's body was found in a desolate forest in the south of France, burned beyond recognition, on May 5, 2000. A week after his bizarre death, which French authorities have attempted to label a "suicide," three armed, masked men broke into the Paris offices of the Sipa Agency, the photography agency where Andanson was working at the time of his death, and stole computer disks, laptops, and cameras. The three men were believed to be agents of the French secret service, hunting for possibly incriminating ph on the side of the Mercedes carrying Diana and Dodi, according to forensic reports contained in the files of chief investigating magistrate, Herve Stephan. EIR also uncovered other break-ins and surpression of crucial evidence by both British and French intelligence services. Nearly three years after the fatal crash, the true circumstances are still being covered up, and the EIR story breaks new ground in exposing that cover-up. This story is "must" reading for anyone who has been attempting to get to the bottom of the Diana-Dodi deaths. As one specialist told EIR, "The death of Andanson may very well signal a new, deadly turn in the cover-up of the death of Princess Diana. It is reminiscent of the pile of corpses that littered the landscape following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, when scores of individuals with knowledge about the President's death, died under mysterious circumstances.
Princess Diana Was The Target
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Diana.htm
- Further Investigation Into Diana's Death
- Westminster Rumour Mill In Overdrive
- Rumors Of Spencer/Windsor Rift
- Diana: Death of a Goddess
- Vow From Diana's Crash Scene
- Brits Re-open Diana Probe
- CBS To Show Diana Crash Scene Photos
- BBC Slammed For Rap Claiming Royals Killed Diana
- Public Inquiry Rejected In Diana Probe
- Diana's Driver Was Sober Says Scientist
- "High Level Concerns" Over Diana Driver's Blood Sample
- Diana and Dodi: Conspiracy Theories Gather Pace
- Cop: Diana Was Pregnant
- Woman Haunted By Diana
- Hopes Court Will Soon Hear Diana Case
- International Sex Scandal In London/DC
- Royal Scandal Brewing
- Rumour Mill Grinds Its Victims
- Royal Murder Plot May Not Be So Crazy
- Italian Paper Threatens To Publish Diana "Secret"
- "Smithgate" Could Bring Down The Monarchy
- Diana: The Last Secret
- Hewitt Calls For Full Inquiry Into Diana's Death
- House of Hanover/Windsor Under Attack
- Diana Pals Back Book
- Poll Backs Death Plot
- Royal Conspiracy: Princess Diana Names Her Killer
- Diana "Feared Death Plot"
- Diana Letter Sensation: "They Will Try To Kill Me"
- Patricia Cornwell "Solves Mystery" Of Diana Car Crash
- "Princess Diana Was Murdered"
- Coroner To Probe Dodi Fayed's Death
- UK To Unfold Diana's Mysterious Death
- Duped By B-Grade Look Into Diana's Spirit
- U.S. Spy Tapes Reveal Diana Was Pregnant
- Dad Seeks Inquiry Into Dodi's Death
- New Query Over Diana's Death
- Diana Death "More Than An Accident"
- Diana Secret Tapes are "Di-namite"
- Media Nonsense: Did Osama Kill Diana?
- Car Crashes and the Church of England
- Why Diana Can't Rest In Peace
- Diana Inquest To Be Stifled By Ex Post Facto Law
- Parents Want DNA Proof For Diana Driver's Blood
- Mossad Plotted Diana Death?
- MI6 Murdered The People's Princess
- Diana Crash Inquest Ordered
- Diana Case Heats Up
- LeWinter's Portugal Of Discontent
- Hidden Evidence In Diana Case!
- Diana: Crushed Between the East and the West
- Whoever Controls Princess Diana Controls The World
- Journalists Confide: "Princess Diana Was Assassinated"
- Princesses In Peril
- Skolnick Warned: "Back Off the Diana Story!"
- October Surprise and the Murder of Princess Diana
- Documents Detail Princess Diana Murder Plot
- Skolnick: Diana and Dodi Murdered?
- Diana Murdered Says Purported CIA Document
Princess Diana Was The Target
In Spanish, "Diana" means "Target".Summary of August 1997 assassination
of Diana, Princess of Wales, shows her
to have been the primary target
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that and it does remind me of what happened to Princess Diana and I hope we don't make that same mistake again," he said. "I think we should pull back a bit and start to look at this girl's life."She's a private citizen, she needs a bit of space, she's in love with Prince William - I'm sure of that and I'm sure one day they'll get married and I've talked to William about this."He added: "I have talked to him about that and he's made it clear... he wants to get married."Mr Edwards said the royals had been "open season" for The Sun in the 1980s but his job was very different now."When celebrities appear in newspapers I just think a lot of it is brought on themselves - they call the papers, get in there and, by and large, they enjoy it," he said."It helps them sell their music and their films."
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Al Qaeda Threat to Kill Harry In Iraq.
Terrorists have vowed to kidnap or kill Prince Harry when he fights in Iraq, it is reported.
The
22-year-old is due to be sent out in May with colleagues from the Blues
and Royals regiment. Threats have been posted on extremist websites
since his deployment was revealed, The Sun says. One message said:
"Prince Harry will be sent to Iraq to be killed by Muslims." Another
added: "May Allah give him what he deserves - like his fellow
crusaders." Army officials fear the Prince will be paraded on
television if he is kidnapped.
A Blues and Royals source told the
paper: "Officially Harry is being treated just like any other soldier
but in reality everyone knows how desperate the insurgents out there
will be to get their hands on him."
Internet terror expert Neil
Doyle was quoted as saying: "Harry would be the ultimate prize for one
of these insurgent groups. "He would be worth his weight in gold in
propaganda terms if killed or captured." From the end of May, the
prince will be patrolling in Scimitar armoured reconnaissance vehicles
in Maysan. Harry will this week pose as a hooded hostage in a special
training exercise, the paper says.
His men will use tear gas and stun grenades to free him. More than 100 UK soldiers have been killed since the 2003 invasion.
British judge seen "no evidence" Diana was murdered
LONDON
(Reuters) - The judge investigating the death of Princess Diana said on
Monday she had not seen "a shred of evidence" to back claims that she
had been murdered. Coronor Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was responding to a
request from lawyers representing Mohamed al Fayed, whose son Dodi died
alongside Diana in a Paris car crash 10 years ago, to delay a long
awaited inquest into the their deaths.
This article appears in the July 7, 2000 issue
of Executive Intelligence Review.
This article appeared in the June 12, 1998 issue
of Executive Intelligence Review
of Executive Intelligence Review.
Comprehensive background on the circles implicated
in the murder of Princess Diana can be found in EIR's 1997 Special Report,
The True Story Behind the Fall of the House of Windsor.
http://www.larouchepub.com/
New holes in cover-up of
Diana murder plot
Shortly after midnight, on Aug. 30-31, 1997, David Laurent, an off-duty senior French police official, was driving alone in his car on the right bank of the Seine River, heading toward the Place de l'Alma tunnel where, moments later, Diana Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul would die in a car crash. As he drove, Laurent was passed by a speeding white Fiat Uno, according to accounts he provided nine months ago to French Criminal Brigade police probing the Diana crash. As he approached the tunnel, Laurent noticed that the Fiat Uno that had sped by him, was now crawling along in the right traffic lane, almost at a standstill, just before the tunnel entrance.
Although the behavior of the Fiat driver was a bit bizarre, Laurent drove on. It was, after all, Saturday night on the final weekend of the summer, and there were a lot of strange goings-on on the streets of Paris. Less than a moment later, however, Laurent heard a loud explosion from inside the tunnel, as he was driving a short distance ahead.
It was not until the next morning that Laurent realized that the explosion he had heard from inside the tunnel was the crash that claimed the lives of Diana and her companions. And it was not until several weeks later that police forensic tests confirmed that the crash had been caused by a collision between the Mercedes 280-S carrying Diana, Fayed, Paul, and bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash, and a Fiat Uno. Within hours of the crash, police at the scene had gathered up evidence--a side mirror and fragments of a tail light--suggesting that a two-car collision had occurred. A police sketch, drawn at the crash site, labeled a section of the tunnel the "collision zone." Several witnesses, interviewed during the first week after the crash, had described a small hatchback car, cutting in front of the Mercedes at the tunnel entrance, jamming its breaks inside the tunnel, fleeing the crash scene, and so on.
But, until Laurent's critical piece of the story became public in early June, the role of the Fiat had remained ambiguous--despite the fact that the car and its driver have disappeared. Was the missing Fiat tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was it critical to the most spectacular vehicular homicide in history?
Laurent's description of the Fiat, speeding to a spot near the tunnel entrance, less than a minute ahead of Diana's car, which was under chase from several other cars and motorcycles, strongly suggests the latter possibility.
For reasons yet unexplained, Laurent's crucial eyewitness account was withheld from the chief investigating magistrate, Hervé Stephan, for months.
Tampering with evidence
This is not the first time that the French police in charge of the investigation have tampered with evidence. Within hours of the crash, French police had told reporters that the Mercedes carrying Diana had been travelling at speeds of more than 120 miles per hour. How did they know? They told reporters that the speedometer of the mangled Mercedes had been frozen at more than 120 mph. EIR investigators determined that the French "leak" had to be a lie. Daimler Benz safety experts had told EIR reporters that, in any crash, the speedometer immediately goes back to zero. Two weeks later, the French police "corrected" the error; but this time, the media scarcely reported the correction. Similarly, French police had lied to reporters that Diana had been pinned in the rear compartment of the Mercedes, and saying that this was why it took so long to get her into an ambulance and to a hospital. Photographic evidence and eyewitness accounts later proved that it, too, was a premeditated lie by the French police.
In the case of the Laurent testimony, sources tell EIR that the police have claimed that they have withheld certain vital evidence from Magistrate Stephan, to avoid the information falling into the hands of the attorneys for the paparazzi. The police allegedly claimed that their investigation "would be jeopardized" if the paparazzi were to learn crucial details.
The Laurent revelation, which was leaked to the London Daily Mirror on June 4 by a well-placed French police source, was not the only new piece of evidence to emerge in early June. On June 3, the British independent television network ITV aired a one-hour investigative report, "Diana: The Secrets Behind the Crash," that seriously discredits French police claims that driver Henri Paul was drunk at the time of the crash.
Carbon monoxide found in Paul's blood
The assertion that Paul was drunk and high on two prescription drugs is pivotal to the ongoing effort, by the French government and the British establishment, to cast the crash as nothing more than a case of reckless, drunk driving. The claim that Paul had blood alcohol levels three times the legal limit at the time of the crash, was based solely on tests conducted by French coroners within hours of the crash. Independent forensic experts, including Dr. Peter Vanesis of the University of Glasgow, who reviewed the autopsy report, had harsh criticisms of the post mortem on numerous technical grounds.
The ITV report revealed that the forensic tests also showed a near-lethal level of carbon monoxide as well. EIR has independently learned that it was a separate toxicological test on Paul's blood sample, that revealed a carbon monoxide level of more than 30% at the time of the crash.
Yet, Dodi Fayed had no carbon monoxide in his blood. Is it possible that Paul could have had high levels of alcohol, traces of two prescription drugs, and toxic levels of carbon monoxide in his blood at the moment of the crash, and yet Fayed had no carbon monoxide present? Not if the carbon monoxide was inside the passenger cabin of the Mercedes.
Furthermore, if Paul had been somehow poisoned with carbon monoxide sometime prior to getting behind the wheel of the Mercedes, experts interviewed by ITV say he would have shown obvious signs, such as dizziness, loss of balance, loss of depth perception, and an unbearable, throbbing pain in his temple. Security camera video footage of Paul, taken in the lobby of the Ritz Hotel between 9 p.m. and midnight, and aired in the ITV documentary, clearly showed that Paul had none of the tell-tale signs of being drunk or suffering from the effects of carbon monoxide.
In a live television interview, aired one hour after the ITV broadcast, the documentary's host, Nicholas Owen, stated that he believed that the blood sample used in the post mortem was probably not taken from Paul. There were a dozen other corpses in the Paris city morgue at the time that Paul was brought in. This startling conclusion by Owen, adds further weight to EIR's charge that the French police--as distinct from chief investigating Magistrate Stephan--have been running a vicious cover-up of the events surrounding the crash.
The ITV documentary also cited several eyewitness accounts that a powerful burst of light inside the tunnel, seconds before the crash, may have blinded Paul. Owen showed a commercially produced anti-personnel laser, that he purchased in a Paris shop for $300, to buttress the possibility that such a device was used in the vehicular attack.
EIR Counterintelligence Director Jeffrey Steinberg appeared along with Owen and a half-dozen other investigators and expert analysts on the nationally televised interview show. Details of that broadcast and the vortex of media controversy, sparked by the ITV show and a second documentary, aired on June 4 on Channel Four TV in Britain, will appear in a forthcoming EIR (see also, the Editorial in this issue).
In a move that promises to raise even more questions about what happened in the Paris tunnel on Aug. 31, 1997, Magistrate Stephan convened an extraordinary group interrogation, or "confrontation," on June 5, at the Justice Ministry in Paris. Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi's father and a civil party to the case, was invited to participate, as were a dozen eyewitnesses to the crash. The nine paparazzi who stand to be prosecuted for manslaughter and interference in the rescue effort, were also interrogated by Stephan. Details of what took place are not yet available.
A group of MPs has been told that Kate Middleton and Prince William are certain to marry. The claim was made by a veteran tabloid photographer, who said it was based on conversations with the prince.
Sun snapper Arthur Edwards was talking to MPs about the self-regulation of the press.
He said he felt sorry for Miss Middleton when he saw footage of the way she was treated by packs of paparazzi photographers."When I saw the pack break and they all surrounded her I felt awful about A group of MPs has been told that Kate Middleton and Prince William are certain to marry. The claim was made by a veteran tabloid photographer, who said it was based on conversations with the prince.
Sun snapper Arthur Edwards was talking to MPs about the self-regulation of the press.
He said he felt sorry for Miss Middleton when he saw footage of the way she was treated by packs of paparazzi photographers."When I saw the pack break and they all surrounded her I felt awful about that and it does remind me of what happened to Princess Diana and I hope we don't make that same mistake again," he said. "I think we should pull back a bit and start to look at this girl's life."She's a private citizen, she needs a bit of space, she's in love with Prince William - I'm sure of that and I'm sure one day they'll get married and I've talked to William about this."He added: "I have talked to him about that and he's made it clear... he wants to get married."Mr Edwards said the royals had been "open season" for The Sun in the 1980s but his job was very different now."When celebrities appear in newspapers I just think a lot of it is brought on themselves - they call the papers, get in there and, by and large, they enjoy it," he said."It helps them sell their music and their films."
Al Qaeda Threat to Kill Harry In Iraq.
Terrorists have vowed to kidnap or kill Prince Harry when he fights in Iraq, it is reported. This article appears in the June 19, 1998 issue
The
22-year-old is due to be sent out in May with colleagues from the Blues
and Royals regiment. Threats have been posted on extremist websites
since his deployment was revealed, The Sun says. One message said:
"Prince Harry will be sent to Iraq to be killed by Muslims." Another
added: "May Allah give him what he deserves - like his fellow
crusaders." Army officials fear the Prince will be paraded on
television if he is kidnapped.
A Blues and Royals source told the
paper: "Officially Harry is being treated just like any other soldier
but in reality everyone knows how desperate the insurgents out there
will be to get their hands on him."
Internet terror expert Neil
Doyle was quoted as saying: "Harry would be the ultimate prize for one
of these insurgent groups. "He would be worth his weight in gold in
propaganda terms if killed or captured." From the end of May, the
prince will be patrolling in Scimitar armoured reconnaissance vehicles
in Maysan. Harry will this week pose as a hooded hostage in a special
training exercise, the paper says.
His men will use tear gas and stun grenades to free him. More than 100 UK soldiers have been killed since the 2003 invasion.
British judge seen "no evidence" Diana was murdered
LONDON
(Reuters) - The judge investigating the death of Princess Diana said on
Monday she had not seen "a shred of evidence" to back claims that she
had been murdered. Coronor Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was responding to a
request from lawyers representing Mohamed al Fayed, whose son Dodi died
alongside Diana in a Paris car crash 10 years ago, to delay a long
awaited inquest into the their deaths.
This article appears in the July 7, 2000 issue
of Executive Intelligence Review.
This article appeared in the June 12, 1998 issue
of Executive Intelligence Review
of Executive Intelligence Review.
Comprehensive background on the circles implicated
in the murder of Princess Diana can be found in EIR's 1997 Special Report,
The True Story Behind the Fall of the House of Windsor.
http://www.larouchepub.com/
New holes in cover-up of
Diana murder plot
Shortly after midnight, on Aug. 30-31, 1997, David Laurent, an off-duty senior French police official, was driving alone in his car on the right bank of the Seine River, heading toward the Place de l'Alma tunnel where, moments later, Diana Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul would die in a car crash. As he drove, Laurent was passed by a speeding white Fiat Uno, according to accounts he provided nine months ago to French Criminal Brigade police probing the Diana crash. As he approached the tunnel, Laurent noticed that the Fiat Uno that had sped by him, was now crawling along in the right traffic lane, almost at a standstill, just before the tunnel entrance.
Although the behavior of the Fiat driver was a bit bizarre, Laurent drove on. It was, after all, Saturday night on the final weekend of the summer, and there were a lot of strange goings-on on the streets of Paris. Less than a moment later, however, Laurent heard a loud explosion from inside the tunnel, as he was driving a short distance ahead.
It was not until the next morning that Laurent realized that the explosion he had heard from inside the tunnel was the crash that claimed the lives of Diana and her companions. And it was not until several weeks later that police forensic tests confirmed that the crash had been caused by a collision between the Mercedes 280-S carrying Diana, Fayed, Paul, and bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash, and a Fiat Uno. Within hours of the crash, police at the scene had gathered up evidence--a side mirror and fragments of a tail light--suggesting that a two-car collision had occurred. A police sketch, drawn at the crash site, labeled a section of the tunnel the "collision zone." Several witnesses, interviewed during the first week after the crash, had described a small hatchback car, cutting in front of the Mercedes at the tunnel entrance, jamming its breaks inside the tunnel, fleeing the crash scene, and so on.
But, until Laurent's critical piece of the story became public in early June, the role of the Fiat had remained ambiguous--despite the fact that the car and its driver have disappeared. Was the missing Fiat tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was it critical to the most spectacular vehicular homicide in history?
Laurent's description of the Fiat, speeding to a spot near the tunnel entrance, less than a minute ahead of Diana's car, which was under chase from several other cars and motorcycles, strongly suggests the latter possibility.
For reasons yet unexplained, Laurent's crucial eyewitness account was withheld from the chief investigating magistrate, Hervé Stephan, for months.
Tampering with evidence
This is not the first time that the French police in charge of the investigation have tampered with evidence. Within hours of the crash, French police had told reporters that the Mercedes carrying Diana had been travelling at speeds of more than 120 miles per hour. How did they know? They told reporters that the speedometer of the mangled Mercedes had been frozen at more than 120 mph. EIR investigators determined that the French "leak" had to be a lie. Daimler Benz safety experts had told EIR reporters that, in any crash, the speedometer immediately goes back to zero. Two weeks later, the French police "corrected" the error; but this time, the media scarcely reported the correction. Similarly, French police had lied to reporters that Diana had been pinned in the rear compartment of the Mercedes, and saying that this was why it took so long to get her into an ambulance and to a hospital. Photographic evidence and eyewitness accounts later proved that it, too, was a premeditated lie by the French police.
In the case of the Laurent testimony, sources tell EIR that the police have claimed that they have withheld certain vital evidence from Magistrate Stephan, to avoid the information falling into the hands of the attorneys for the paparazzi. The police allegedly claimed that their investigation "would be jeopardized" if the paparazzi were to learn crucial details.
The Laurent revelation, which was leaked to the London Daily Mirror on June 4 by a well-placed French police source, was not the only new piece of evidence to emerge in early June. On June 3, the British independent television network ITV aired a one-hour investigative report, "Diana: The Secrets Behind the Crash," that seriously discredits French police claims that driver Henri Paul was drunk at the time of the crash.
Carbon monoxide found in Paul's blood
The assertion that Paul was drunk and high on two prescription drugs is pivotal to the ongoing effort, by the French government and the British establishment, to cast the crash as nothing more than a case of reckless, drunk driving. The claim that Paul had blood alcohol levels three times the legal limit at the time of the crash, was based solely on tests conducted by French coroners within hours of the crash. Independent forensic experts, including Dr. Peter Vanesis of the University of Glasgow, who reviewed the autopsy report, had harsh criticisms of the post mortem on numerous technical grounds.
The ITV report revealed that the forensic tests also showed a near-lethal level of carbon monoxide as well. EIR has independently learned that it was a separate toxicological test on Paul's blood sample, that revealed a carbon monoxide level of more than 30% at the time of the crash.
Yet, Dodi Fayed had no carbon monoxide in his blood. Is it possible that Paul could have had high levels of alcohol, traces of two prescription drugs, and toxic levels of carbon monoxide in his blood at the moment of the crash, and yet Fayed had no carbon monoxide present? Not if the carbon monoxide was inside the passenger cabin of the Mercedes.
Furthermore, if Paul had been somehow poisoned with carbon monoxide sometime prior to getting behind the wheel of the Mercedes, experts interviewed by ITV say he would have shown obvious signs, such as dizziness, loss of balance, loss of depth perception, and an unbearable, throbbing pain in his temple. Security camera video footage of Paul, taken in the lobby of the Ritz Hotel between 9 p.m. and midnight, and aired in the ITV documentary, clearly showed that Paul had none of the tell-tale signs of being drunk or suffering from the effects of carbon monoxide.
In a live television interview, aired one hour after the ITV broadcast, the documentary's host, Nicholas Owen, stated that he believed that the blood sample used in the post mortem was probably not taken from Paul. There were a dozen other corpses in the Paris city morgue at the time that Paul was brought in. This startling conclusion by Owen, adds further weight to EIR's charge that the French police--as distinct from chief investigating Magistrate Stephan--have been running a vicious cover-up of the events surrounding the crash.
The ITV documentary also cited several eyewitness accounts that a powerful burst of light inside the tunnel, seconds before the crash, may have blinded Paul. Owen showed a commercially produced anti-personnel laser, that he purchased in a Paris shop for $300, to buttress the possibility that such a device was used in the vehicular attack.
EIR Counterintelligence Director Jeffrey Steinberg appeared along with Owen and a half-dozen other investigators and expert analysts on the nationally televised interview show. Details of that broadcast and the vortex of media controversy, sparked by the ITV show and a second documentary, aired on June 4 on Channel Four TV in Britain, will appear in a forthcoming EIR (see also, the Editorial in this issue).
In a move that promises to raise even more questions about what happened in the Paris tunnel on Aug. 31, 1997, Magistrate Stephan convened an extraordinary group interrogation, or "confrontation," on June 5, at the Justice Ministry in Paris. Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi's father and a civil party to the case, was invited to participate, as were a dozen eyewitnesses to the crash. The nine paparazzi who stand to be prosecuted for manslaughter and interference in the rescue effort, were also interrogated by Stephan. Details of what took place are not yet available.
Wills And Kate To Tie The Knot - Claim
A group of MPs has been told that Kate Middleton and Prince William are certain to marry. The claim was made by a veteran tabloid photographer, who said it was based on conversations with the prince.
Sun snapper Arthur Edwards was talking to MPs about the self-regulation of the press.
He said he felt sorry for Miss Middleton when he saw footage of the way she was treated by packs of paparazzi photographers."When I saw the pack break and they all surrounded her I felt awful about A group of MPs has been told that Kate Middleton and Prince William are certain to marry. The claim was made by a veteran tabloid photographer, who said it was based on conversations with the prince.
Sun snapper Arthur Edwards was talking to MPs about the self-regulation of the press.
He
said he felt sorry for Miss Middleton when he saw footage of the way
she was treated by packs of paparazzi photographers."When I saw the
pack break and they all surrounded her I felt awful about that and it
does remind me of what happened to Princess Diana and I hope we don't
make that same mistake again," he said. "I think we should pull back a
bit and start to look at this girl's life."She's a private citizen, she
needs a bit of space, she's in love with Prince William - I'm sure of
that and I'm sure one day they'll get married and I've talked to
William about this."He added: "I have talked to him about that and he's
made it clear... he wants to get married."Mr Edwards said the royals
had been "open season" for The Sun in the 1980s but his job was very
different now."When celebrities appear in newspapers I just think a lot
of it is brought on themselves - they call the papers, get in there
and, by and large, they enjoy it," he said."It helps them sell their
music and their films."
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British judge seen "no evidence" Diana was murdered
Inquest Into Diana's Death Postponed
The
inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, has been postponed
until October 1. The coroner, Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, has
granted the extra time in order to allow more evidence to be gathered.
It is understood she agreed to the delay with some reluctance. In her
opening statement at the pre-inquest hearing, she said: "I would be
very sad if I was obliged to delay the start of the main proceedings
for another six months. I feel that would be very, very hard on the
families." However, the move was in line with a suggestion from Mohamed
Al Fayed's lawyer, Michael Mansfield, who said there was a "massive
amount of work" to be done. Sky News royal correspondent Katharine
Witty said that although nearly 10 years had passed since the Paris car
crash that claimed the lives of Diana, Dodi Fayed and their driver,
Henri Paul, more time was needed to gather certain pieces of evidence.
Among them is a computer-generated recreation of the route taken by
their car created by the Metropolitan Police using the very latest
technology. However, she said Princes William and Harry may be
disappointed with the ruling. A letter read out on their behalf at the
start of the proceedings said they wanted them to "not only be open,
fair and transparent but... (to) move swiftly to a conclusion." "I
don't think anyone will be happy at the delay," Witty said. "It means
the 10th anniversary of their deaths will pass without an inquest
having taken place." She added that more details would be made public
at the next hearing on March 21.
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'My investigation should end all the conspiracy theories about Diana's death'
Sir John the end of the matter
By Rajeev Syal
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Sir John Stevens, Britain's most senior policeman, has urged Mohamed Fayed to accept In
a wide-ranging interview with The Telegraph shortly before he steps
down as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir John said that he was
determined that his exhaustive inquiry should be the final word on the
conspiracy theories that have raged around the circumstances of the
princess's fatal car accident seven years ago. Mr Fayed, the Egyptian
businessman whose son Dodi died alongside the princess, has repeatedly
insisted that the couple were murdered in a plot by "the British
establishment". Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler, has fuelled the
conspiracy theories by releasing a letter purportedly written by the
princess shortly before her death in which she said that she feared for
her life. The Princess of Wales, 36, and Dodi Fayed, 42, were killed on
August 31, 1997 when their Mercedes crashed in a Paris underpass. Their
driver, Henri Paul, also died. Sir John said that his inquiry,
Operation Paget, would examine every theory thoroughly and insisted
that all parties, including Mr Fayed, should accept his conclusions. |
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Princess Diana Was The Target
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Princess Diana Was The Target
In Spanish, "Diana" means "Target".
Summary of August 1997 assassination
of Diana, Princess of Wales, shows her
to have been the primary target
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Gossip and intrigue: the Westminster rumour mill in overdrive
Cabinet ministers take to the airwaves to dismiss speculation that they persuaded the prime minister not to resign
Michael White, political editor
Monday July 12, 2004
The Guardian
The
Labour telephone network was thick with conspiratorial mutterings and
indignant denials after BBC radio and television had spent much of the
weekend giving prominence to reports that a clutch of Tony Blair's
cabinet colleagues had to talk him out of resigning last month. Several
of the ministers named, including John Reid, Charles Clarke and Tessa
Jowell, were quickly on the airwaves, not actually denying that they
urged Mr Blair to carry on, but insisting they had done so separately
and without prior co-ordination during exchanges lasting as little as
30 seconds.
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Diana: A never-ending story
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Diana, Princess of Wales, during her 1996 visit to Australia. |
Books about the life and death of Princess Diana keep appearing.
Is there anything we can learn from them?
For someone whose world view was formed by a youthful diet of popular
romance, it should not have been so surprising that the late Diana,
Princess of Wales, lived her life as a romance heroine. Not surprising
too that she was filled with rage that there was no happy ending as
promised by Barbara Cartland and her ilk. But somewhere along the line
she moved from shy virgin bride to empowered Scarlett O'Hara. Her death
was more the stuff of thrillers. The public hysteria surrounding her
end, the blanket television coverage and cancellation of sporting
fixtures and a political campaign in Britain was, for those who
maintained their cynicism, nothing short of bizarre and often
embarrassing. The books about Diana are best read as a sort of dialogue
with each other. Were the material in the key accounts of insiders
better known, some of the latest claims of conspiracies would be robbed
of much of their power. The revelation of a letter, predicting her own
end in an arranged car accident 10 months before her death in the
account written by Diana's butler/confidant of 10 years, Paul Burrell,
A Royal Duty, should perhaps be seen in the context of a more
generalised paranoia.
Both her detective, Inspector Ken
Wharfe in Closely Guarded Secret and private secretary, Patrick Jephson
in Shadows of a Princess, report such unfounded suspicions. Jephson
writes of how Diana was convinced one of her drivers was briefing the
media when he was only telling them to nick off. Nicholas Davies, who
knew both Diana and Charles, writes in Diana: Secrets and Lies that
Diana told friends the royal family wanted her dead or out of the way
as early as 1984. The recent broadcast in the US of the tapes she made
for Andrew Morton's book, Diana: Her True Story, led to the rehashing
of old scores, long after much of the material in it has been
discredited, notably the suicide attempts. As Davies describes it, the
supposed flinging of herself down a staircase really amounted to her
slipping on a couple of stairs on a three-step staircase. All except
the loyal Burrell, whose book is more a triumph of omission, testify to
a woman who was a master of public relations, not averse to inventions
such as her supposed rescue of a drowning tramp in a London park.
HONOUR ROLL
A Royal Duty by Paul Burrell, Penguin
Diana: Death of a Goddess by David Cohen, Century
Diana: Secrets and Lies by Nicholas Davies, AMI Books
Shadows of a Princess by Patrick Jephson, HarperCollins
Diana: Her True Story by Andrew Morton, Michael O'Mara Books
Death of a Princess by Thomas Sancton and Scott MacLeod, Orion
Closely Guarded Secret by Ken Wharfe, Michael O'Mara Books
Wharfe writes that Diana called more than one person her "rock", not just Burrell, and Davies relates that Diana was sick of Burrell and he had been looking abroad for a new job. Whatever the truth of this, Burrell's worshipful book detonates the fiction of a caring Spencer family championing a sister. He castigates the hypocrisy of the Earl of Spencer's funeral speech, so applauded at the time. With such a family, Diana can be forgiven anything.
The title of the latest book in the growing Diana opus, David Cohen's Diana: Death of a Goddess, suggests the idealised and cult-like status she had achieved. She made humanitarian work telegenic and if her motives were not always pure, she touched many who were less fortunate and publicised their plight.
Cohen's book does not even use the word goddess. Despite the title, this is no exploration of Diana's appeal but the most sensational investigation to date of what happened in the tunnel below the Place d'Alma in Paris, where a grassy knoll commemorates the death of a young Belgian queen in a car accident in 1935.
Was Diana's death the result of a conspiracy or just another of France's shocking 8000 road fatalities each year? Cohen suggests the truth lies at both ends of the spectrum and produces some credible-sounding evidence, based on the testimony of sources in the intelligence services, police contacts and a man who claimed to have been hired to kill Diana.
From the start the French investigation of the accident was half-hearted at best. The accident scene had been cleared only two hours later and traffic allowed through, making a proper forensic collection of evidence impossible.
There was a failure to interview key witnesses, at least one attempt to silence and discredit the first witness on the scene, incomplete records and inadequate preservation of blood and tissue samples from the man who became the fall-guy, Ritz driver Henri Paul, a limited attempt to find the white Fiat Uno, the back of which was scraped by the Ritz Mercedes carrying Diana and Dodi, and the partial embalming of Diana's body, contrary to French law, making a full autopsy impossible.
The way the French inquiry was conducted and its deliberate limitation to dealing with the paparazzi following Diana has made it difficult to find the truth, says Cohen.
Much that has been claimed by the Paris police, repeated in the media and accepted in an earlier book, Thomas Sancton and Scott MacLeod's Death of a Princess, is in doubt. The initial attempt to put all blame on the media pack following Diana that night gave way to the picture of a drunk, speeding driver, Henri Paul. The speed at which the car crashed was overstated by police and the evidence for Paul being drunk is questionable, according to Cohen. The high carbon-monoxide content in Paul's blood could not be credibly explained by the French inquiry.
Cohen discovered, too, that contrary to French police statements there was a speed camera at the tunnel entrance and the tape showed Diana and Dodi laughing their heads off, not consistent with the widespread speculation that Dodi's panic had caused the driver to speed. Cohen dismisses Davies's theory that the Ritz car had been tampered with on the ground that it had only been used at the last moment.
Cocaine, according to a police source, was found in Diana's bag. Most sinister of all is the Fiat Uno, seen to impede the Mercedes following it through the tunnel by slow zig-zagging.
Mohamed Al-Fayed's own investigators did what the police could not and traced the Fiat Uno to one of the most aggressive celebrity snappers and one with links to two French prime ministers, James Andanson, who boasted to friends he filmed Diana's last moments although no one else saw him. He is believed to have worked for intelligence services, as did Henri Paul. Andanson died in suspicious circumstances in 2000.
Cohen's informants lead him back to a cult called the Order of the Solar Temple and it is here that the links require a stretch of the imagination. Will we ever know whether Diana, named for the goddess of hunting, was herself hunted down and why? The long-delayed British inquest postponed until next year promises to contribute to the miasma.
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Vow from Diana's crashscene
Apr 27 2004 The Western Mail
BRITAIN'S most senior policeman vowed yesterday to "draw a line" once and for all under the mystery surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir John Stevens, speaking at the spot where Diana died in a car crash in Paris, said he would be willing to interview the Prince of Wales as part of his inquiry into her death.He said he would be speaking to officers from MI5 and MI6 to investigate conspiracy theories alleging the involvement of the security services in the crash which killed her.Sir John, who was visiting the crash scene at the Pont de l'Alma tunnel for the first time, said the underpass was much smaller and narrower than he had thought and the gradient of the road into it was steeper.He will have 10 detectives working full-time on the inquiry, which may last into next year and is expected to cost up to £2m
The inquiry began at the request of royal coroner Michael Burgess, who opened and adjourned an inquest in January - six-and-a-half years after Diana, her then boyfriend Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul died in their Mercedes limousine.Sir John travelled to Paris by Eurostar with Mr Burgess and Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner Alan Brown, who is his right hand man on the Diana inquiry.The road into the tunnel was closed off by French gendarmes and Sir John, Mr Burgess and Mr Brown were guided into the tunnel by Martine Monteil, director of the Brigade Criminale, who led the French investigation.Sir John spent half an hour in the tunnel, much of it examining the 13th pillar into which the car crashed.After emerging from the tunnel, Sir John said he would investigate every possibility.He said, "There are a lot of conspiracy theories relating to the deaths of the three people in this tunnel."It is my job to report to the coroner every single aspect being investigated in terms of conspiracy theories."This is a very intricate investigation.Every single aspect of conspiracy theories and the like will be looked at by my team."I will speak to people from MI6 and MI5, yes."Asked if he would be interviewing the Prince of Wales, Sir John said, "If there is the need to interview Prince Charles, I will interview Prince Charles."We have the best team of detectives we can from the Yard."We have got to try and do everything we can to try and draw a line one way or another under this inquiry. Hopefully, we can complete this by the end of December."
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Vow from Diana's crashscene
Apr 27 2004
Brits Re-Open Diana Probe Police Looking Into Possibility That Di's Death Was Not Accident
(CBS) British police are reopening their investigation into the death of Princess Diana, and they're looking into the possibility
that it wasn't an accident, CBSNEWS Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports.
Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir John Stevens will retrace Diana's movements the night of the crash that killed her as her car traveled at high speed through a tunnel in central Paris.
“We will be looking at the scene of what has taken place. Obviously, statements, videos and pictures are being seen.
But it's very important that I actually have a look at the scene,” says Stevens.
“Today is all about going to the scene. We’ll be driving a car down there. We’ll be looking at the scene and also I’ll be meeting my French counterpart.”
A thorough French investigation of the accident discounted conspiracy theories that suggested Diana was killed because she was pregnant by her Egyptian lover, Dodi Fayed. The French report instead blames the driver of the Mercedes,
Henri Paul, for driving under the influence of both alcohol and drugs.
Now, seven years later, a team of British detectives working for the royal coroner will conduct its own investigation –
in a final attempt to end speculation about the death of Britain's most famous princess.
The inquest report is expected by the end of this year.
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death in Paris was a conspiracy. Miss Walsh suffered depression and previously threatened suicide,
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LONDON (Reuters) - The judge investigating the death of Princess Diana said on Monday she had not seen "a shred of evidence" to back claims that she had been murdered. Coroner Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was responding to a request from lawyers representing Mohamed al Fayed, whose son Dodi died alongside Diana in a Paris car crash 10 years ago,to delay a long awaited inquest into the their deaths
The Murder of Princess Diana by Noel Botham Paperback - 28 Feb 2007Princess Diana Murder Cover-Up Turns Deadly
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Nearly three years after the Paris car crash that claimed the lives of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, the cover-up of that tragedy
has taken a
deadly turn, prompting some experts to recall the pileup of corpses
that followed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Over the
course of four years, after President Kennedy was shot on Nov. 22,
1963, at least 37 eyewitnesses and other
sources of evidence about the crime, including one member of the infamous Warren Commission, which oversaw the cover-up,
died under mysterious circumstances.
On May 5, 2000, police in the south of France found a badly burned body inside the wreckage of a car, deep in the woods near Nantes. The body was so charred that it took police nearly a month before DNA tests confirmed that the dead man was Jean-Paul "James" Andanson, a 54-year-old millionaire photographer, who was among the paparazzi stalking Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed during
the week before their deaths.
From the day of the fatal crash in the Place de l'Alma tunnel, that killed Diana, Dodi, and driver Henri Paul, and severely injured bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, Andanson had been at the center of the controversy.
Mohamed Al-Fayed, the father of Dodi Fayed, and the owner of Harrods Department Store in London and the Paris Ritz Hotel, has labelled the Aug. 31, 1997 crash a murder, ordered by the British royal family, and most likely executed through agents and assets of the British secret intelligence service MI6--with collusion from French officials, whose cooperation in the cover-up would have been essential.
At least seven eyewitnesses to the crash said that they saw a white Fiat Uno and a motorcycle speed out of the tunnel, seconds after the crash. Forensic tests have confirmed that a white Fiat Uno collided with the Mercedes carrying Diana and Dodi, and that this collision was a significant factor in the crash. Several eyewitnesses told police that they saw a powerful flash of light just seconds before the Mercedes swerved out of control and crashed into the 13th pillar of the Alma tunnel. That bright light--either a camera flash or a far more powerful flash of a laser weapon--was probably fired by the passenger on the back of the speeding motorcycle. Both the motorcycle and the white Fiat fled the crash scene, and police claim they have been unable to locate either vehicle, or identify the drivers or the passengers.
Andanson's White Fiat
Andanson had been in and around Sardinia during the last week of August 1997, as Diana and Dodi vacationed in the Mediterranean. He joined several dozen other paparazzi, who were stalking the couple's every move. He was back in France on Aug. 30, the day that Diana and Dodi flew to Paris. And that is where the facts about Andanson's activities and whereabouts get very fuzzy.
For reasons that he never revealed, sometime before dawn on Aug. 31, 1997, less than six hours after the crash in the Alma tunnel, Andanson boarded a flight at Orly Airport near Paris, bound for Corsica. Andanson claimed that he was not in Paris earlier in the evening, when the crash occurred, but he never produced any evidence, save a receipt for the purchase of gasoline elsewhere in France (which he could have doctored or obtained from another person), to prove he was not in the city.
His son James and his daughter Kimberly told police that they thought their father was grape-harvesting in the Bordeaux region. Andanson's wife Elizabeth claimed that she had been at home with her husband all night, at their country home, Le Manoir de la Bergerie, in Cher, until he abruptly left for Orly, at 3:45 a.m., to catch the crack-of-dawn flight to Corsica.
Pressed on her version of the story, Mrs. Anderson later admitted to reporters and police that her husband was constantly on the run, and she could have been mistaken about the night in question. She told The Express, a British newspaper, "It was always very difficult to recall James's precise movements because he was always coming and going. The family was very used to that and so never paid a great deal of attention to the times he came and went."
What makes Andanson's precise itinerary the night of the fatal crash so vital is this: He owned and drove a white Fiat Uno. The car was repainted shortly after the Aug. 31, 1997 Alma tunnel crash, and was sold by Andanson in October 1997. And, although the official report of the French authorities investigating the crash concluded that Andanson's car was not involved in the crash, French forensic reports made available to The Express told a very different story.
One report in the files of Judge Hervé Stephan, the chief investigating magistrate in the Diana-Dodi crash probe, described the tests on Andanson's Fiat: "The comparative analysis of the infrared spectra characterizing the vehicle's original paint, reference Bianco 210, and the trace on the side-view mirror of the Mercedes shows that their absorption bands are identical." In laymen's terms, the paint scratches from the Fiat found on the side-view mirror of the Mercedes were identical to the paint samples taken from the matching spot on Andanson's Fiat.
The report continued: "The comparative analysis between the infrared spectra characterizing the black polymer taken from the vehicle's fender, and the trace taken from the door of the Mercedes, show that their absorption bands are identical."
In short, despite the French investigators' endorsement of Andanson's alibi, the forensic tests strongly suggested that his car may have been the white Fiat Uno involved in the fatal crash.
John Macnamara, the Harrods director of security, and a retired senior Scotland Yard supervisor of investigations, told reporters: "Mr. Andanson had for some time been a prime suspect who had relentlessly pursued Diana and Dodi prior to their arrival in Paris. We have always believed that Andanson was at the scene and that more investigation should have been done into his possible involvement."
Macnamara added, "We believe that his death is no coincidence and that this is a line of inquiry which may help to discover the truth. Was Mr. Andanson killed because of what he knew? That is a question we want answered."
The `Suicide' Soap Opera
Needless to say, Andanson's death stirred up renewed interest in Diana's death at a most inopportune time for the British royals, and those in France who abetted the cover-up. Sometime in September, an appellate court in Paris will rule on Al-Fayed's motion to order Judge Stephan to reopen the crash probe, based on the fact that Stephan shut down his probe before certain vital avenues of inquiry were fully explored, and in contradiction to his own interim report, which cited several glaring paradoxes in the evidence that remained unresolved at the point that he abruptly closed down his investigation last year and blamed the crash on driver Henri Paul.
For example, U.S. intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, have all acknowledged, in response to Freedom of Information Act queries, that they have thousands of pages of documents on Princess Diana. Those documents, for the most part, remain under lock and key. In addition to those documents and other relevant evidence, it has been recently exposed that a secret U.S.-U.K. joint surveillance program, code-named "Project Echelon," had apparently been involved in round-the-clock monitoring of Princess Diana's telephone conversations, while she was at home in England and travelling around the globe.
Until the contents of these U.S. government files and electronic intercepts have been reviewed by French investigators, Al-Fayed's lawyers have argued, the probe cannot be considered complete. And the U.S. Justice Department continues to stonewall on indicting three Americans who were involved in an attempted $20 million extortion of Al-Fayed in April 1998, centered around purported "CIA documents" proving that British intelligence assassinated Diana and Dodi. While the "CIA documents" seized from one of the plotters have been confirmed to have been clever forgeries, questions remain about the accuracy of the content of the documents.
In a flagrant effort to dampen interest in the Andanson factor, the June 11 Mail on Sunday, a pro-royalist tabloid, ran a story proclaiming "Wife's Affair Led to Paparazzi Man's Car Blaze Suicide." The Mail on Sunday dutifully peddled the French government's cover story: "The millionaire photographer who trailed Diana, Princess of Wales in St. Tropez just days before her death, committed suicide when he discovered his wife was cheating on him, French police have revealed. . . . The eccentric millionaire--who was hailed by colleagues as one of the godfathers of paparazzi photography, and who flew a Union Flag over his house to show his love of Britain--was facing a family crisis at the time of his death."
Mail on Sunday reporter Ian Sparks quoted an unnamed colleague of Andanson's at the Sipa Agency in Paris, making the preposterously contradictory claim that Andanson "was desperate to save his marriage. We would never have guessed he would do something so terrible." He committed suicide to save his marriage! Right.
A French police spokesman told Sparks, "He took his own life by dousing himself and the car with petrol and then setting light to it."
Andanson's widow Elizabeth, and their son James have rejected the idea that Andanson's death was suicide. Sources close to the family told EIR that they have pressed French officials to conduct a murder investigation into Andanson's death 400-miles from his home. The sources dismiss the bogus "marital problems" story and additionally report that Andanson was in high spirits over his new job with the Sipa Agency.
The Plot Thickens
Just after midnight on June 16, just one week after Andanson's death was first made public, three masked men armed with handguns, broke into the Sipa office in Paris, shooting a security guard in the foot. The three assailants dismantled all of the security cameras in the office, and proceeded to enter several specific offices, clearly aware of exactly what they were looking for. They made off with several cameras, laptop computers, and computer hard drives.
Sipa's office employs more than 200 people, and operates 24-hours a day. The three invaders spent three hours in the office, holding other employees hostage. According to one of the hostages, the men were never concerned about the French police arriving at the scene. This hostage was convinced that the three "burglars" were themselves working for some branch of the French Secret Service. Furthermore, the source confirmed that Andanson had worked for French and, undoubtedly, British security agencies.
The owner of Sipa, Sipa Hioglou, has worked closely with French intelligence, and, not surprisingly, has been one of the primary sources of the "marital problems/suicide" cover story about Andanson's death, "confessing" to French police and reporters that Andanson had confided in him that he planned to take his own life. Hioglou, in the days following the bizarre break-in and hostage siege of his office, also told police that he suspected that the raid was done on behalf of a disgruntled celebrity who was angry that her picture had been taken by a Sipa paparazzo without her permission.
In stark contrast, other Sipa employees have told the police that the idea that Andanson committed suicide was preposterous, and that they suspect that the break-in was related to his death.
What Is Going On?
The Sipa raid, the obvious work of French Secret Service assets, raises some very troubling questions. If Macnamara and Al-Fayed are right, and Andanson was at the crash site on Aug. 31, 1997, and his white Fiat was the car that collided with the Mercedes, what documentation exists of his presence at the tunnel? What photographs exist of the crash scene, and what do they reveal? Was some of this material seized from the Sipa offices in the recent break-in, to assure that it never sees the light of day?
Evidence has recently come to light, that within hours of the crash, British and French secret service agencies carried out a series of similar break-ins at the homes and offices of several photo-agency personnel, in a desperate search for photos of the crash site that may have been transmitted in the hours immediately after the Alma tunnel collision, and before word of Princess Diana's death was made public.
EIR has obtained copies of sworn statements from two London-based photographers, Darryn Paul Lyons and Lionel Cherruault, which reveal that British intelligence was hyperactive in the hours immediately after the Alma tunnel crash, desperately seeking any revealing photographs that might have been spirited out of Paris.
Lyons identified himself as the "Chairman of `Big Pictures,' . . . an international photographic agency in London, New York, and Sydney, specializing in obtaining and selling unique and exclusive celebrity-based photographs." At 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 31, 1997, Lyons received a phone call from a Paris paparazzo, Lorent Sola, who said that he had a dozen photographs of the accident at the Alma tunnel. Sola offered to electronically transmit the photos to Lyons immediately, and Lyons rushed off to his office, receiving the high-resolution photographs at approximately 3 a.m. Lyons immediately began negotiating with several large news organizations in the United States and Britain to sell the pictures for $250,000.
Lyons and Sola conferred after word of Diana's death was made public, and they decided to withdraw the offer of the pictures. Copies of the photos were placed in Lyons' office safe.
Sometime between 11 p.m. on Aug. 31 and 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 1, the electricity at Lyons' office was mysteriously cut, although no other power outages in the office building or the neighborhood occurred. Lyons, convinced that either the office was being robbed, or bombed, called the police. In his sworn statement, Lyons declared that he believed that secret service agents had broken into his office and either searched the premises or planted surveillance and listening devices.
Lionel Cherruault, a London-based photo journalist for Sipa Agency, in his sworn statement, reported that, at 1:45 a.m. on Aug. 31, 1997, he received a call at his home from a freelance photographer in Florida, informing him that he was expecting to soon be in possession of photographs of the tunnel crash. Cherruault told the Florida contact that he was interested. After word of Diana's death was announced, the deal fell through.
But Cherruault, who was in contact with his boss at Sipa, stated that, at approximately 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 1, while he and his wife and daughter were asleep, his home was broken into, his wife's car was stolen, and his car was moved. Computer disks used for transmitting photographs, and other electronic equipment, were stolen, and the front door of their home was left wide open. Even though cash, credit cards, and jewelry were visible in the study where the burglars stole the computer equipment, none of those valuables were taken, making it clear that this was not an ordinary break-in. The next day, a police officer came to Cherruault's home and confirmed that the break-in was clearly the work of "Special Branch, MI5, MI6, call it what you like, this was no ordinary burglary." The officer said that the home had "been targetted." The man, whose name Cherruault was unable to recall, assured him "not to worry, your lives were not in danger," according to the sworn statement.
The official police report of the Cherruault break-in, which has been reviewed by EIR, confirmed that "The computer equipment stolen contained a huge library of royal photographs and appears to have been the main target for the perpetrators."
Another Thread of the Cover-Up
One of the other still-unresolved issues in the Alma crash probe, three years after the fact, revolves around the medical evidence. Al-Fayed has been battling in court in Britain for the right to participate in the official inquest into the death of Princess Diana, arguing that since both Diana and Dodi died in the crash, therefore he should be entitled to officially participate in both inquests. The courts have preliminarily ruled that he has the right to contest the Royal Coroner's rejection of his participation in the Diana inquest, which will only occur after the French appellate process has been completed, sometime later this year.
However, in April of this year, the attorneys representing Al-Fayed received a copy of a suppressed memorandum, prepared by Professors Dominique Lecomte and Andre Lienhart, two French forensic pathologists working for Judge Stephan, suggesting that British authorities, including the Royal Coroner, Dr. Burton, had interceded to conceal some aspects of the official British autopsy. The two French doctors were in London on June 23, 1998, where they met with British coroners Drs. Burton and Burgess, forensic pathologist Dr. Chapman, and Scotland Yard Superintendant Jeffrey Rees. They were given copies of the English autopsy report on Princess Diana, but, according to their contemporaneous notes on the meeting, were told that the document was provided for their "private and personal use," and that it should not be included in the formal file of Judge Stephan.
Any material in that official investigative file was automatically made available to attorneys representing all the interested parties in the French probe, including Al-Fayed's attorneys.
This two-and-a-half year suppression of the Lecomte-Lienhart memorandum has once again raised serious questions about the legitimacy of the "official" autopsy of the Princess of Wales, including questions that arose at the time of her death, as to whether she was pregnant.
The mayhem surrounding the deaths of Diana and Dodi, and now Andanson, raises questions about the circumstances in Paris on that night in late August 1997--questions that the House of Windsor in general, and Prince Philip in particular, have long sought to suppress. The time may be fast approaching that the well-orchestrated three-year cover-up is about to blow apart, and at least part of the truth about the death of the "People's Princess" see the light of day.
And that is something that the Windsors and the mandarins of MI6 may not be able to survive.
New `Diana Wars' in Britain
Put Focus on LaRouche
by Jeffrey Steinberg
On June 4, the London Daily Telegraph,
the flagship publication of the British monarchy and the Club of the
Isles' Hollinger Corp., published a crass slander against Lyndon
LaRouche, headlined "U.S. Cult Is Source of Theories." The article
charged that LaRouche, EIR, and the New Federalist newspaper were all
behind a "Diana conspiracy industry," and that LaRouche, in league with
London-based billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed, was "accusing the Queen of
ordering the assassination of Diana, Princess of Wales."
Apart from the fact that the article was pure fiction, there were two significant things about the story--which accompanied a much longer article that trashed a British Independent Television (ITV) documentary, entitled "Diana: The Secrets Behind the Crash," which had aired the previous night, and which had been followed by a live televised debate on the Princess's death:
First, the Daily Telegraph smear was authored by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, an avowed British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) stringer, who spent from late 1992 through the spring of 1997 in Washington, D.C. orchestrating a similar slander campaign against President Bill Clinton. Allowing Evans-Pritchard's by-line to appear on the "icebox" slander of LaRouche was a blunder of strategic significance, which underscored the truth behind LaRouche's charge that all of President Clinton's enemies, including in the upper echelons of the British oligarchy, are also enemies of LaRouche.
The blunder also underscored the fact that there is a "battle royal" under way within the British ruling class, which goes far beyond the issue of the death of Princess Diana. The battle touches on matters of global geopolitics, and how the British oligarchy intends to survive the worst, systemic financial breakdown crisis in modern history.
The "Torygraph" slander also marked a decisive break in the Club of the Isles' policy of keeping LaRouche's name out of print in Britain. It has been long-recognized by the City of London-centered financier oligarchical grouping headed by the Royal Consort, Prince Philip, that LaRouche and EIR have been a powerful factor in exposing their dirty machinations worldwide, and have also been an important contributing factor in an eruption of political warfare against the Windsors, even from among the British elites.
The LaRouche role in the Windsors' troubles came to the surface in 1994, when EIR published "The Coming Fall of the House of Windsor," a Special Report exposing the role of Prince Philip and his World Wildlife Fund (WWF, now the World Wide Fund for Nature), in triggering the worst genocide in modern history in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Even as EIR's exposés of the Windsors circulated throughout the world diplomatic community and among factions of the British establishment, with rare exceptions, the name "LaRouche" was banned from the British press.[FIGURE 1]
All that changed, beginning with the June 4 Evans-Pritchard diatribe. The article not only accused LaRouche and EIR of heading the "conspiracy industry," and of accusing "the Queen of being the world's foremost drug dealer." But also, it linked LaRouche to Mohamed Al Fayed, Harrods department store owner and the father of the late Dodi Fayed, in a campaign, Evans-Pritchard wrote, "aimed at discrediting Tiny Rowland, Mr. Al Fayed's longtime business rival, ... according to Francesca Pollard, a former operative for the Fayed security machine." As EIR revealed in its 1993 unauthorized biography of Rowland, Pollard, whose family was robbed of its fortune by Rowland, was threatened and then paid off by Rowland, to be a source of trash against Al Fayed. Following the Aug. 31, 1997 car crash in Paris that claimed the life of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul, Rowland was deployed by the British royal family to lead a slander and harassment campaign aimed at silencing Mohamed Al Fayed, who has stated publicly that he is "99.9% certain" that Diana and Dodi were the victims of a murder plot.
Battle of the Documentaries
The trigger for the slanders against LaRouche was the airing of the ITV documentary on the evening of June 3, followed by a live TV debate, which featured this author. The ITV documentary provided dramatic new evidence supporting the case that Diana and Dodi were murdered (see "New Holes in Cover-Up of Diana Murder Plot," EIR, June 12, 1998), and highlighted several investigative leads that were first published in EIR, including the possibility that driver Paul was blinded by an anti-personnel laser.
During the live TV round-table debate, this author discussed Princess Diana's decade-long war with the House of Windsor, including the impact of her November 1995 BBC Panorama interview, in which she charged that her estranged husband, Prince Charles, was unfit to be King; and, the reaction of the establishment to her actions, which amounted to a collective shriek, "Off with her head!" Rowland's personal involvement in the campaign to cover up the truth about the Paris crash, and to destroy Mohamed Al Fayed, was also aired, much to the chagrin of the producer and host of a Channel 4 "Dispatches" documentary on the Diana death that aired the following night. Channel 4 tried to dismiss as fantasy every piece of evidence refuting the "drunk driver" theory.[FIGURE 2]
The Channel 4 "Dispatches" program included a slander of this author and EIR that was even more explicit on the question of Prince Philip. Although this author was interviewed on camera for more than two hours by Channel 4 host Martyn Gregory, less than one minute of that interview was shown on the hour-long "Dispatches" diatribe. And, that brief segment waxed hysterical about EIR's refusal to "rule out" the possibility that Prince Philip ordered the murder of Diana and Dodi. Indeed, British press accounts of the relationship between Prince Philip and Lady Diana, particularly during the brief period of her relationship with Dodi Fayed, revealed that the Royal Consort was in a constant blind rage over Diana's public disdain for the Windsors, and particularly her implicit challenge to their legitimacy on the British throne.
Gregory was given several pages in the Sunday Telegraph on June 7, to continue denouncing LaRouche, EIR, and Al Fayed. In an article regurgitating the "Dispatches" disinformation, Gregory wrote: "The numerous hares Mohamed Fayed has set running in the colours of sundry conspiracy theories are typified by Geoffrey [sic] Steinberg, chief reporter of Executive Intelligence Review, a small-circulation American magazine that specializes in conspiracy theories. He was yet another guest on the side of the motley crew supporting ITV's Wednesday night programme.
"This is the man who told Dispatches he `could not rule out the possibility' that Prince Philip was involved in the `murder of Diana.' We decided not to take Steinberg seriously at all."
Defending `Mr. Big'
Not so for MI5, another British intelligence agency. On June 10, Francis Wheen, a writer for MI5's favorite leak sheet, the political satire magazine Private Eye, penned another anti-LaRouche diatribe, in the London Guardian. Wheen, who had published smears against LaRouche in 1996, fixated on EIR's targetting of Prince Philip, whom Wheen affectionately referred to as "Mr. Big." "Many weird characters enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame during last week's flurry of TV programmes about Princess Diana," Wheen began, "but none was weirder than Jeffrey Steinberg, who appeared on Wednesday night's `studio debate' and again on Channel 4's Dispatches the next evening. There was, he admitted, `no smoking-gun proof' that Prince Philip ordered British intelligence to assassinate the Princess; nevertheless, `I can't rule it out in all honesty.' "
Wheen complained, "So who is he? For some reason, viewers were not informed that the grand-sounding Executive Intelligence Review is in fact the weekly propaganda magazine of Lyndon H. LaRouche." Wheen almost got it right, when he noted, "Executive Intelligence Review has supported Al Fayed in his vendetta against Tiny Rowland and Lonrho; and when Michael Howard refused Al Fayed's application for British citizenship, LaRouche published a defamatory article about the family connection between Howard and Harold Landy, the former chairman of a Lonrho subsidiary." Wheen then digressed into the ID-format slander that was perfected by the mid-1980s dirty tricks slander salon, run by Wall Street Anglophile spook banker John Train, as part of the "Get LaRouche" task force of the U.S. Justice Department and private agencies that framed up and railroaded LaRouche to prison. Wheen recited the litany of smears: LaRouche says "the Queen runs an international cocaine smuggling cartel," that "Henry Kissinger is a communist agent," and, interestingly, that "the Italian banker Roberto Calvi was murdered by the Duke of Kent." (Calvi was himself a member of the extended royal family.)
International terrorism
Wheen then touched on another sore spot of the House of Windsor and Club of the Isles: the British hand in sponsoring and harboring international terrorism. He tried to twist EIR's exposé of London's role in safe-housing dozens of major terrorist organizations, a fact the U.S. State Department and the CIA have acknowledged in written documents. "In recent years," Wheen wrote, "LaRouche and Steinberg have been pursuing another `unique' theory--that `international terrorism' is masterminded by none other than Lord [William] Rees-Mogg and the Daily Telegraph reporter Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.... LaRouche claims [that] Rees-Mogg and Evans-Pritchard are part of a `powerful London-centerd apparatus that declared war on the United States immediately after the inauguration of President Clinton.' Whitewater, Troopergate, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky--all these scandals can be traced back to our double-barreled desperadoes.... But Rees-Mogg and Evans-Pritchard are merely servants of the `powerful London-centered apparatus.' The Mr. Big whose orders they obey is Prince Philip.... The intention, according to LaRouche, is to discredit, and destabilise the U.S. until it is forced to become a British colony once again, thus taking the House of Windsor another giant stride on its road to world domination."
Wheen continued, "Only one person in Britain was powerful enough to thwart the conspiracy--Princess Diana, who had `declared war' on the royal family in her Panorama interview. And so she had to be killed."
Wheen ended on a curious, slightly ominous, note: "This alliance between Al Fayed and Lyndon LaRouche seems risky, to say the least. Why should a prominent public figure aid and abet such an unscrupulous fantasy-merchant? If LaRouche doesn't wish to sully his reputation, he must disown Al Fayed forthwith," Wheen wrote.
A half-dozen other slanders followed the Guardian article, in the Scotsman, on BBC-4 Radio, and even in the Danish press. One factor that clearly got the royals' blood boiling was that, according to the major British TV rating service, 12.5 million Britons watched the ITV documentary, and most of them also watched the studio debate that followed the evening news. On June 4, German national television aired the entire ITV broadcast, and major German dailies published lengthy excerpts from the transcript. In contrast, fewer than 3 million British viewers watched the Channel 4 smear the following evening. And, a Mirror newspaper poll, published on June 7, suggested that an overwhelming majority of Britons are convinced that there was more to the death of Diana than a traffic accident.
The Strategic Battle
As EIR has said from day one, the death of Princess Diana is the scandal that could hasten the fall of the House of Windsor. But, the future of the Club of the Isles oligarchy hangs in the balance today in a number of ways. The probe in Paris of Diana's death, if it turns up compelling evidence of a murder, or even of aggravated manslaughter caused by a paparazzi mob notorious for its links to British intelligence and the Crown apparatus, would certainly bring down both the Windsors and the current Socialist government in France, which also is deeply implicated in the crash and the cover-up.
On other fronts, the British establishment is torn over how to deal with the onrush of the financial collapse. Prince Philip and his circle have no compunctions about throwing the world into decades of chaos and genocide, in order to retain oligarchical control. But other, less insane forces within the City of London financial elite are apparently asking, "What do we get out of such chaos and destruction?" and may be seeking a new political alliance, perhaps with the United States, and sane forces on the continent who are opposed to the suicidal Maastricht Treaty.
Other issues that are causing divisions among the British elites include Britain's stance on the European Monetary Union, and the euro single curency. Furthermore, factions on the continent that share Prince Philip's impulse to play "chaos warfare," may be pressing for a new assault on the Asian currencies, including the Japanese yen, through the major continental banks and their offshore hedge funds, even though such a move at this moment would almost certainly trigger a global financial explosion with unpredictable consequences.
Within
the extended European oligarchy, which has, for decades, been under the
boot of Prince Philip's Club of the Isles, there is intensive
in-fighting and factional warfare, adding further to the crisis
atmosphere spreading across Eurasia. The common point of agreement
among the "chaos" factions within the British and continental
oligarchies, is that the power of the United States, as the pillar of
the nation-state system, must be destroyed in the immediate period
ahead, lest LaRouche's ideas for a nation-state-centered New Bretton
Woods solution to the present global mess, be adopted, along with
LaRouche's vision for a Eurasian Land-Bridge plan of global economic
reconstructed.
New holes in cover-up of
Diana murder plot
Shortly after midnight, on Aug. 30-31, 1997, David Laurent, an off-duty senior French police official, was driving alone in his car on the right bank of the Seine River, heading toward the Place de l'Alma tunnel where, moments later, Diana Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul would die in a car crash. As he drove, Laurent was passed by a speeding white Fiat Uno, according to accounts he provided nine months ago to French Criminal Brigade police probing the Diana crash. As he approached the tunnel, Laurent noticed that the Fiat Uno that had sped by him, was now crawling along in the right traffic lane, almost at a standstill, just before the tunnel entrance.
Although the behavior of the Fiat driver was a bit bizarre, Laurent drove on. It was, after all, Saturday night on the final weekend of the summer, and there were a lot of strange goings-on on the streets of Paris. Less than a moment later, however, Laurent heard a loud explosion from inside the tunnel, as he was driving a short distance ahead.
It was not until the next morning that Laurent realized that the explosion he had heard from inside the tunnel was the crash that claimed the lives of Diana and her companions. And it was not until several weeks later that police forensic tests confirmed that the crash had been caused by a collision between the Mercedes 280-S carrying Diana, Fayed, Paul, and bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash, and a Fiat Uno. Within hours of the crash, police at the scene had gathered up evidence--a side mirror and fragments of a tail light--suggesting that a two-car collision had occurred. A police sketch, drawn at the crash site, labeled a section of the tunnel the "collision zone." Several witnesses, interviewed during the first week after the crash, had described a small hatchback car, cutting in front of the Mercedes at the tunnel entrance, jamming its breaks inside the tunnel, fleeing the crash scene, and so on.
But, until Laurent's critical piece of the story became public in early June, the role of the Fiat had remained ambiguous--despite the fact that the car and its driver have disappeared. Was the missing Fiat tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was it critical to the most spectacular vehicular homicide in history?
Laurent's description of the Fiat, speeding to a spot near the tunnel entrance, less than a minute ahead of Diana's car, which was under chase from several other cars and motorcycles, strongly suggests the latter possibility.
For reasons yet unexplained, Laurent's crucial eyewitness account was withheld from the chief investigating magistrate, Hervé Stephan, for months.
Tampering with evidence
This is not the first time that the French police in charge of the investigation have tampered with evidence. Within hours of the crash, French police had told reporters that the Mercedes carrying Diana had been travelling at speeds of more than 120 miles per hour. How did they know? They told reporters that the speedometer of the mangled Mercedes had been frozen at more than 120 mph. EIR investigators determined that the French "leak" had to be a lie. Daimler Benz safety experts had told EIR reporters that, in any crash, the speedometer immediately goes back to zero. Two weeks later, the French police "corrected" the error; but this time, the media scarcely reported the correction. Similarly, French police had lied to reporters that Diana had been pinned in the rear compartment of the Mercedes, and saying that this was why it took so long to get her into an ambulance and to a hospital. Photographic evidence and eyewitness accounts later proved that it, too, was a premeditated lie by the French police.
In the case of the Laurent testimony, sources tell EIR that the police have claimed that they have withheld certain vital evidence from Magistrate Stephan, to avoid the information falling into the hands of the attorneys for the paparazzi. The police allegedly claimed that their investigation "would be jeopardized" if the paparazzi were to learn crucial details.
The Laurent revelation, which was leaked to the London Daily Mirror on June 4 by a well-placed French police source, was not the only new piece of evidence to emerge in early June. On June 3, the British independent television network ITV aired a one-hour investigative report, "Diana: The Secrets Behind the Crash," that seriously discredits French police claims that driver Henri Paul was drunk at the time of the crash.
Carbon monoxide found in Paul's blood
The assertion that Paul was drunk and high on two prescription drugs is pivotal to the ongoing effort, by the French government and the British establishment, to cast the crash as nothing more than a case of reckless, drunk driving. The claim that Paul had blood alcohol levels three times the legal limit at the time of the crash, was based solely on tests conducted by French coroners within hours of the crash. Independent forensic experts, including Dr. Peter Vanesis of the University of Glasgow, who reviewed the autopsy report, had harsh criticisms of the post mortem on numerous technical grounds.
The ITV report revealed that the forensic tests also showed a near-lethal level of carbon monoxide as well. EIR has independently learned that it was a separate toxicological test on Paul's blood sample, that revealed a carbon monoxide level of more than 30% at the time of the crash.
Yet, Dodi Fayed had no carbon monoxide in his blood. Is it possible that Paul could have had high levels of alcohol, traces of two prescription drugs, and toxic levels of carbon monoxide in his blood at the moment of the crash, and yet Fayed had no carbon monoxide present? Not if the carbon monoxide was inside the passenger cabin of the Mercedes.
Furthermore, if Paul had been somehow poisoned with carbon monoxide sometime prior to getting behind the wheel of the Mercedes, experts interviewed by ITV say he would have shown obvious signs, such as dizziness, loss of balance, loss of depth perception, and an unbearable, throbbing pain in his temple. Security camera video footage of Paul, taken in the lobby of the Ritz Hotel between 9 p.m. and midnight, and aired in the ITV documentary, clearly showed that Paul had none of the tell-tale signs of being drunk or suffering from the effects of carbon monoxide.
In a live television interview, aired one hour after the ITV broadcast, the documentary's host, Nicholas Owen, stated that he believed that the blood sample used in the post mortem was probably not taken from Paul. There were a dozen other corpses in the Paris city morgue at the time that Paul was brought in. This startling conclusion by Owen, adds further weight to EIR's charge that the French police--as distinct from chief investigating Magistrate Stephan--have been running a vicious cover-up of the events surrounding the crash.
The ITV documentary also cited several eyewitness accounts that a powerful burst of light inside the tunnel, seconds before the crash, may have blinded Paul. Owen showed a commercially produced anti-personnel laser, that he purchased in a Paris shop for $300, to buttress the possibility that such a device was used in the vehicular attack.
EIR Counterintelligence Director Jeffrey Steinberg appeared along with Owen and a half-dozen other investigators and expert analysts on the nationally televised interview show. Details of that broadcast and the vortex of media controversy, sparked by the ITV show and a second documentary, aired on June 4 on Channel Four TV in Britain, will appear in a forthcoming EIR (see also, the Editorial in this issue).
In a move that promises to raise even more questions about what happened in the Paris tunnel on Aug. 31, 1997, Magistrate Stephan convened an extraordinary group interrogation, or "confrontation," on June 5, at the Justice Ministry in Paris. Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi's father and a civil party to the case, was invited to participate, as were a dozen eyewitnesses to the crash. The nine paparazzi who stand to be prosecuted for manslaughter and interference in the rescue effort, were also interrogated by Stephan. Details of what took place are not yet available
Comprehensive background on the circles implicated in the murder of Princess Diana can be found in EIR's 1997 Special Report,
The True Story Behind the Fall of the House of Windsor.
These articles appear in the
June 12, 1998 issue
June 19, 1998 issue
July 7, 2000 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
Comprehensive background on the circles implicated in the murder
of Princess Diana can be found in EIR's 1997 Special Report,
The True Story Behind the Fall of the House of Windsor
PRESS RELEASE
IR Reveals How Diana Murder Cover-up Has Turned Deadly
June 30, 2000 (EIRNS)--The July 7, 2000 issue of Executive Intelligence ReviewA week after his bizarre death, which French authorities have attempted to label a "suicide," three armed, masked men broke into the Paris offices of the Sipa Agency, the photography agency where Andanson was working at the time of his death, and stole computer disks, laptops, and cameras. The three men were believed to be agents of the French secret service, hunting for possibly incriminating photographs of the crash site that Andanson may have been hiding.
The EIR story details the fact that Andanson, who owned a white Fiat Uno at the time of the 1997 crash, was a prime suspect in the Diana and Dodi wrongful deaths, yet French investigators accepted his alibi that he was not in Paris at the time of the crash. Tests of the paint and bumper scratches on his Fiat matched those on the side of the Mercedes carrying Diana and Dodi, according to forensic reports contained in the files of chief investigating magistrate, Herve Stephan. EIR also uncovered other break-ins and surpression of crucial evidence by both British and French intelligence services.
Nearly three years after the fatal crash, the true circumstances are still being covered up, and the EIR story breaks new ground in exposing that cover-up. This story is "must" reading for anyone who has been attempting to get to the bottom of the Diana-Dodi deaths. As one specialist told EIR, "The death of Andanson may very well signal a new, deadly turn in the cover-up of the death of Princess Diana. It is reminiscent of the pile of corpses that littered the landscape following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, when scores of individuals with knowledge about the President's death, died under mysterious circumstances.
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?
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.
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 replaceme (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].
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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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Accept the reality that there has been no focus by the media on the at minimum, one hour, ambulance ride to travel 4 miles.
- Accept the reality that the time she slipped into the throes of death was during the one hour plus ambulance ride to the hospital.
- Le Parisien and Reuters reported that during the ambulance trip, the ambulance stopped to give her a massive injection of adrenaline.
- 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.
- 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.
- Further, consider whether the ambulance was sent without a police escort, and, if so, why.
- 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?
- 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 EhrlichGeopolitical Analyst Sender, Berl & Sons Inc. September 14, 1997 E-mail: SenderBerl @ aol.com
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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."
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On Friday, the British authorities announced a one-million-pound inquest into Dodi's death "sooner rather than later". It is thought effectively to constitute the first official public inquiry on British soil into Diana's death.
The inquest, long delayed by legal and police procedure, is a requirement under British law when a body is returned to the UK following a death abroad. The tragic couple has not had an inquest so far and there had been some speculation a joint inquiry may be announced next week.
Dodi's father, the London businessman Mohammed al-Fayed, has long campaigned for a public inquiry, claiming the crash was no accident.
Despite millions of websites with conspiracy theories to match, there is little public clarity about the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of the most photographed woman in the world, Diana, Princess of Wales.
The only investigation so far has been conducted in secret by a French judge, who issued a 6,000-page report that was never published.
A spokesman for the south-east English county council of Surrey, where Dodi lived and his inquest will be held, said there were "no plans" for a joint hearing.
Even so, any inquest into the car crash is expected to delve deep. It is expected to summon – and hear – at least 10 key witnesses the world has not formally interviewed so far. They include Francois and Valerie Levistre, who claimed to have seen a "big flash" coming out of the tunnel just before the crash; Brenda Wells, who claimed she was prevented by a motorbike from going down the crucial approach road to the crash-site ahead of the crash and Gary Hunter, who said he saw two vehicles race out of the tunnel, including a mysterious dark car.
The crumpled Mercedes in which Diana and Dodi made their last journey, is likely to be shipped from Paris to England and examined for the first time here.
The death in a Paris underpass on August 31, 1997, has always remained a black hole of suspicion and controversy. For years, there have been frenzied allegations she was assassinated by British intelligence agencies due to her choice of an Arab Muslim lover.
Henri Paul, the couple's driver that night, was alleged by a former British intelligence officer to have been in the pay of MI6.
Diana's two sons, the Princes William and Harry, are said to be keen on an inquest.
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by Jeffrey Steinberg
Nearly three years after the Paris car crash that claimed the lives of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, the cover-up of that tragedy has taken a deadly turn, prompting some experts to recall the pileup of corpses that followed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Over the course of four years, after President Kennedy was shot on Nov. 22, 1963, at least 37 eyewitnesses and other sources of evidence about the crime, including one member of the infamous Warren Commission, which oversaw the cover-up, died under mysterious circumstances.
On May 5, 2000, police in the south of France found a badly burned body inside the wreckage of a car, deep in the woods near Nantes. The body was so charred that it took police nearly a month before DNA tests confirmed that the dead man was Jean-Paul "James" Andanson, a 54-year-old millionaire photographer, who was among the paparazzi stalking Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed during the week before their deaths.
From the day of the fatal crash in the Place de l'Alma tunnel, that killed Diana, Dodi, and driver Henri Paul, and severely injured bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, Andanson had been at the center of the controversy.
Mohamed Al-Fayed, the father of Dodi Fayed, and the owner of Harrods Department Store in London and the Paris Ritz Hotel, has labelled the Aug. 31, 1997 crash a murder, ordered by the British royal family, and most likely executed through agents and assets of the British secret intelligence service MI6--with collusion from French officials, whose cooperation in the cover-up would have been essential.
At least seven eyewitnesses to the crash said that they saw a white Fiat Uno and a motorcycle speed out of the tunnel, seconds after the crash. Forensic tests have confirmed that a white Fiat Uno collided with the Mercedes carrying Diana and Dodi, and that this collision was a significant factor in the crash. Several eyewitnesses told police that they saw a powerful flash of light just seconds before the Mercedes swerved out of control and crashed into the 13th pillar of the Alma tunnel. That bright light--either a camera flash or a far more powerful flash of a laser weapon--was probably fired by the passenger on the back of the speeding motorcycle. Both the motorcycle and the white Fiat fled the crash scene, and police claim they have been unable to locate either vehicle, or identify the drivers or the passengers.
Andanson's White Fiat
Andanson had been in and around Sardinia during the last week of August 1997, as Diana and Dodi vacationed in the Mediterranean. He joined several dozen other paparazzi, who were stalking the couple's every move. He was back in France on Aug. 30, the day that Diana and Dodi flew to Paris. And that is where the facts about Andanson's activities and whereabouts get very fuzzy.
For reasons that he never revealed, sometime before dawn on Aug. 31, 1997, less than six hours after the crash in the Alma tunnel, Andanson boarded a flight at Orly Airport near Paris, bound for Corsica. Andanson claimed that he was not in Paris earlier in the evening, when the crash occurred, but he never produced any evidence, save a receipt for the purchase of gasoline elsewhere in France (which he could have doctored or obtained from another person), to prove he was not in the city.
His son James and his daughter Kimberly told police that they thought their father was grape-harvesting in the Bordeaux region. Andanson's wife Elizabeth claimed that she had been at home with her husband all night, at their country home, Le Manoir de la Bergerie, in Cher, until he abruptly left for Orly, at 3:45 a.m., to catch the crack-of-dawn flight to Corsica.
Pressed on her version of the story, Mrs. Anderson later admitted to reporters and police that her husband was constantly on the run, and she could have been mistaken about the night in question. She told The Express, a British newspaper, "It was always very difficult to recall James's precise movements because he was always coming and going. The family was very used to that and so never paid a great deal of attention to the times he came and went."
What makes Andanson's precise itinerary the night of the fatal crash so vital is this: He owned and drove a white Fiat Uno. The car was repainted shortly after the Aug. 31, 1997 Alma tunnel crash, and was sold by Andanson in October 1997. And, although the official report of the French authorities investigating the crash concluded that Andanson's car was not involved in the crash, French forensic reports made available to The Express told a very different story.
One report in the files of Judge Hervé Stephan, the chief investigating magistrate in the Diana-Dodi crash probe, described the tests on Andanson's Fiat: "The comparative analysis of the infrared spectra characterizing the vehicle's original paint, reference Bianco 210, and the trace on the side-view mirror of the Mercedes shows that their absorption bands are identical." In laymen's terms, the paint scratches from the Fiat found on the side-view mirror of the Mercedes were identical to the paint samples taken from the matching spot on Andanson's Fiat.
The report continued: "The comparative analysis between the infrared spectra characterizing the black polymer taken from the vehicle's fender, and the trace taken from the door of the Mercedes, show that their absorption bands are identical."
In short, despite the French investigators' endorsement of Andanson's alibi, the forensic tests strongly suggested that his car may have been the white Fiat Uno involved in the fatal crash.
John Macnamara, the Harrods director of security, and a retired senior Scotland Yard supervisor of investigations, told reporters: "Mr. Andanson had for some time been a prime suspect who had relentlessly pursued Diana and Dodi prior to their arrival in Paris. We have always believed that Andanson was at the scene and that more investigation should have been done into his possible involvement."
Macnamara added, "We believe that his death is no coincidence and that this is a line of inquiry which may help to discover the truth. Was Mr. Andanson killed because of what he knew? That is a question we want answered."
The `Suicide' Soap Opera
Needless to say, Andanson's death stirred up renewed interest in Diana's death at a most inopportune time for the British royals, and those in France who abetted the cover-up. Sometime in September, an appellate court in Paris will rule on Al-Fayed's motion to order Judge Stephan to reopen the crash probe, based on the fact that Stephan shut down his probe before certain vital avenues of inquiry were fully explored, and in contradiction to his own interim report, which cited several glaring paradoxes in the evidence that remained unresolved at the point that he abruptly closed down his investigation last year and blamed the crash on driver Henri Paul.
For example, U.S. intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency, have all acknowledged, in response to Freedom of Information Act queries, that they have thousands of pages of documents on Princess Diana. Those documents, for the most part, remain under lock and key. In addition to those documents and other relevant evidence, it has been recently exposed that a secret U.S.-U.K. joint surveillance program, code-named "Project Echelon," had apparently been involved in round-the-clock monitoring of Princess Diana's telephone conversations, while she was at home in England and travelling around the globe.
Until the contents of these U.S. government files and electronic intercepts have been reviewed by French investigators, Al-Fayed's lawyers have argued, the probe cannot be considered complete. And the U.S. Justice Department continues to stonewall on indicting three Americans who were involved in an attempted $20 million extortion of Al-Fayed in April 1998, centered around purported "CIA documents" proving that British intelligence assassinated Diana and Dodi. While the "CIA documents" seized from one of the plotters have been confirmed to have been clever forgeries, questions remain about the accuracy of the content of the documents.
In a flagrant effort to dampen interest in the Andanson factor, the June 11 Mail on Sunday, a pro-royalist tabloid, ran a story proclaiming "Wife's Affair Led to Paparazzi Man's Car Blaze Suicide." The Mail on Sunday dutifully peddled the French government's cover story: "The millionaire photographer who trailed Diana, Princess of Wales in St. Tropez just days before her death, committed suicide when he discovered his wife was cheating on him, French police have revealed. . . . The eccentric millionaire--who was hailed by colleagues as one of the godfathers of paparazzi photography, and who flew a Union Flag over his house to show his love of Britain--was facing a family crisis at the time of his death."
Mail on Sunday reporter Ian Sparks quoted an unnamed colleague of Andanson's at the Sipa Agency in Paris, making the preposterously contradictory claim that Andanson "was desperate to save his marriage. We would never have guessed he would do something so terrible." He committed suicide to save his marriage! Right.
A French police spokesman told Sparks, "He took his own life by dousing himself and the car with petrol and then setting light to it."
Andanson's widow Elizabeth, and their son James have rejected the idea that Andanson's death was suicide. Sources close to the family told EIR that they have pressed French officials to conduct a murder investigation into Andanson's death 400-miles from his home. The sources dismiss the bogus "marital problems" story and additionally report that Andanson was in high spirits over his new job with the Sipa Agency.
The Plot Thickens
Just after midnight on June 16, just one week after Andanson's death was first made public, three masked men armed with handguns, broke into the Sipa office in Paris, shooting a security guard in the foot. The three assailants dismantled all of the security cameras in the office, and proceeded to enter several specific offices, clearly aware of exactly what they were looking for. They made off with several cameras, laptop computers, and computer hard drives.
Sipa's office employs more than 200 people, and operates 24-hours a day. The three invaders spent three hours in the office, holding other employees hostage. According to one of the hostages, the men were never concerned about the French police arriving at the scene. This hostage was convinced that the three "burglars" were themselves working for some branch of the French Secret Service. Furthermore, the source confirmed that Andanson had worked for French and, undoubtedly, British security agencies.
The owner of Sipa, Sipa Hioglou, has worked closely with French intelligence, and, not surprisingly, has been one of the primary sources of the "marital problems/suicide" cover story about Andanson's death, "confessing" to French police and reporters that Andanson had confided in him that he planned to take his own life. Hioglou, in the days following the bizarre break-in and hostage siege of his office, also told police that he suspected that the raid was done on behalf of a disgruntled celebrity who was angry that her picture had been taken by a Sipa paparazzo without her permission.
In stark contrast, other Sipa employees have told the police that the idea that Andanson committed suicide was preposterous, and that they suspect that the break-in was related to his death.
What Is Going On?
The Sipa raid, the obvious work of French Secret Service assets, raises some very troubling questions. If Macnamara and Al-Fayed are right, and Andanson was at the crash site on Aug. 31, 1997, and his white Fiat was the car that collided with the Mercedes, what documentation exists of his presence at the tunnel? What photographs exist of the crash scene, and what do they reveal? Was some of this material seized from the Sipa offices in the recent break-in, to assure that it never sees the light of day?
Evidence has recently come to light, that within hours of the crash, British and French secret service agencies carried out a series of similar break-ins at the homes and offices of several photo-agency personnel, in a desperate search for photos of the crash site that may have been transmitted in the hours immediately after the Alma tunnel collision, and before word of Princess Diana's death was made public.
EIR has obtained copies of sworn statements from two London-based photographers, Darryn Paul Lyons and Lionel Cherruault, which reveal that British intelligence was hyperactive in the hours immediately after the Alma tunnel crash, desperately seeking any revealing photographs that might have been spirited out of Paris.
Lyons identified himself as the "Chairman of `Big Pictures,' . . . an international photographic agency in London, New York, and Sydney, specializing in obtaining and selling unique and exclusive celebrity-based photographs." At 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 31, 1997, Lyons received a phone call from a Paris paparazzo, Lorent Sola, who said that he had a dozen photographs of the accident at the Alma tunnel. Sola offered to electronically transmit the photos to Lyons immediately, and Lyons rushed off to his office, receiving the high-resolution photographs at approximately 3 a.m. Lyons immediately began negotiating with several large news organizations in the United States and Britain to sell the pictures for $250,000.
Lyons and Sola conferred after word of Diana's death was made public, and they decided to withdraw the offer of the pictures. Copies of the photos were placed in Lyons' office safe.
Sometime between 11 p.m. on Aug. 31 and 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 1, the electricity at Lyons' office was mysteriously cut, although no other power outages in the office building or the neighborhood occurred. Lyons, convinced that either the office was being robbed, or bombed, called the police. In his sworn statement, Lyons declared that he believed that secret service agents had broken into his office and either searched the premises or planted surveillance and listening devices.
Lionel Cherruault, a London-based photo journalist for Sipa Agency, in his sworn statement, reported that, at 1:45 a.m. on Aug. 31, 1997, he received a call at his home from a freelance photographer in Florida, informing him that he was expecting to soon be in possession of photographs of the tunnel crash. Cherruault told the Florida contact that he was interested. After word of Diana's death was announced, the deal fell through.
But Cherruault, who was in contact with his boss at Sipa, stated that, at approximately 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 1, while he and his wife and daughter were asleep, his home was broken into, his wife's car was stolen, and his car was moved. Computer disks used for transmitting photographs, and other electronic equipment, were stolen, and the front door of their home was left wide open. Even though cash, credit cards, and jewelry were visible in the study where the burglars stole the computer equipment, none of those valuables were taken, making it clear that this was not an ordinary break-in. The next day, a police officer came to Cherruault's home and confirmed that the break-in was clearly the work of "Special Branch, MI5, MI6, call it what you like, this was no ordinary burglary." The officer said that the home had "been targetted." The man, whose name Cherruault was unable to recall, assured him "not to worry, your lives were not in danger," according to the sworn statement.
The official police report of the Cherruault break-in, which has been reviewed by EIR, confirmed that "The computer equipment stolen contained a huge library of royal photographs and appears to have been the main target for the perpetrators."
Another Thread of the Cover-Up
One of the other still-unresolved issues in the Alma crash probe, three years after the fact, revolves around the medical evidence. Al-Fayed has been battling in court in Britain for the right to participate in the official inquest into the death of Princess Diana, arguing that since both Diana and Dodi died in the crash, therefore he should be entitled to officially participate in both inquests. The courts have preliminarily ruled that he has the right to contest the Royal Coroner's rejection of his participation in the Diana inquest, which will only occur after the French appellate process has been completed, sometime later this year.
However, in April of this year, the attorneys representing Al-Fayed received a copy of a suppressed memorandum, prepared by Professors Dominique Lecomte and Andre Lienhart, two French forensic pathologists working for Judge Stephan, suggesting that British authorities, including the Royal Coroner, Dr. Burton, had interceded to conceal some aspects of the official British autopsy. The two French doctors were in London on June 23, 1998, where they met with British coroners Drs. Burton and Burgess, forensic pathologist Dr. Chapman, and Scotland Yard Superintendant Jeffrey Rees. They were given copies of the English autopsy report on Princess Diana, but, according to their contemporaneous notes on the meeting, were told that the document was provided for their "private and personal use," and that it should not be included in the formal file of Judge Stephan.
Any material in that official investigative file was automatically made available to attorneys representing all the interested parties in the French probe, including Al-Fayed's attorneys.
This two-and-a-half year suppression of the Lecomte-Lienhart memorandum has once again raised serious questions about the legitimacy of the "official" autopsy of the Princess of Wales, including questions that arose at the time of her death, as to whether she was pregnant.
The mayhem surrounding the deaths of Diana and Dodi, and now Andanson, raises questions about the circumstances in Paris on that night in late August 1997--questions that the House of Windsor in general, and Prince Philip in particular, have long sought to suppress. The time may be fast approaching that the well-orchestrated three-year cover-up is about to blow apart, and at least part of the truth about the death of the "People's Princess" see the light of day.
And that is something that the Windsors and the mandarins of MI6 may not be able to survive.
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New `Diana Wars' in Britain
Put Focus on LaRouche
by Jeffrey Steinberg
On June 4, the London Daily Telegraph, the flagship publication of the British monarchy and the Club of the Isles' Hollinger Corp., published a crass slander against Lyndon LaRouche, headlined "U.S. Cult Is Source of Theories." The article charged that LaRouche, EIR, and the New Federalist newspaper were all behind a "Diana conspiracy industry," and that LaRouche, in league with London-based billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed, was "accusing the Queen of ordering the assassination of Diana, Princess of Wales."
Apart from the fact that the article was pure fiction, there were two significant things about the story--which accompanied a much longer article that trashed a British Independent Television (ITV) documentary, entitled "Diana: The Secrets Behind the Crash," which had aired the previous night, and which had been followed by a live televised debate on the Princess's death:
First, the Daily Telegraph smear was authored by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, an avowed British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) stringer, who spent from late 1992 through the spring of 1997 in Washington, D.C. orchestrating a similar slander campaign against President Bill Clinton. Allowing Evans-Pritchard's by-line to appear on the "icebox" slander of LaRouche was a blunder of strategic significance, which underscored the truth behind LaRouche's charge that all of President Clinton's enemies, including in the upper echelons of the British oligarchy, are also enemies of LaRouche.
The blunder also underscored the fact that there is a "battle royal" under way within the British ruling class, which goes far beyond the issue of the death of Princess Diana. The battle touches on matters of global geopolitics, and how the British oligarchy intends to survive the worst, systemic financial breakdown crisis in modern history.
The "Torygraph" slander also marked a decisive break in the Club of the Isles' policy of keeping LaRouche's name out of print in Britain. It has been long-recognized by the City of London-centered financier oligarchical grouping headed by the Royal Consort, Prince Philip, that LaRouche and EIR have been a powerful factor in exposing their dirty machinations worldwide, and have also been an important contributing factor in an eruption of political warfare against the Windsors, even from among the British elites.
The LaRouche role in the Windsors' troubles came to the surface in 1994, when EIR published "The Coming Fall of the House of Windsor," a Special Report exposing the role of Prince Philip and his World Wildlife Fund (WWF, now the World Wide Fund for Nature), in triggering the worst genocide in modern history in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Even as EIR's exposés of the Windsors circulated throughout the world diplomatic community and among factions of the British establishment, with rare exceptions, the name "LaRouche" was banned from the British press.[FIGURE 1]
All that changed, beginning with the June 4 Evans-Pritchard diatribe. The article not only accused LaRouche and EIR of heading the "conspiracy industry," and of accusing "the Queen of being the world's foremost drug dealer." But also, it linked LaRouche to Mohamed Al Fayed, Harrods department store owner and the father of the late Dodi Fayed, in a campaign, Evans-Pritchard wrote, "aimed at discrediting Tiny Rowland, Mr. Al Fayed's longtime business rival, ... according to Francesca Pollard, a former operative for the Fayed security machine." As EIR revealed in its 1993 unauthorized biography of Rowland, Pollard, whose family was robbed of its fortune by Rowland, was threatened and then paid off by Rowland, to be a source of trash against Al Fayed. Following the Aug. 31, 1997 car crash in Paris that claimed the life of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul, Rowland was deployed by the British royal family to lead a slander and harassment campaign aimed at silencing Mohamed Al Fayed, who has stated publicly that he is "99.9% certain" that Diana and Dodi were the victims of a murder plot.
Battle of the Documentaries
The trigger for the slanders against LaRouche was the airing of the ITV documentary on the evening of June 3, followed by a live TV debate, which featured this author. The ITV documentary provided dramatic new evidence supporting the case that Diana and Dodi were murdered (see "New Holes in Cover-Up of Diana Murder Plot," EIR, June 12, 1998), and highlighted several investigative leads that were first published in EIR, including the possibility that driver Paul was blinded by an anti-personnel laser.
During the live TV round-table debate, this author discussed Princess Diana's decade-long war with the House of Windsor, including the impact of her November 1995 BBC Panorama interview, in which she charged that her estranged husband, Prince Charles, was unfit to be King; and, the reaction of the establishment to her actions, which amounted to a collective shriek, "Off with her head!" Rowland's personal involvement in the campaign to cover up the truth about the Paris crash, and to destroy Mohamed Al Fayed, was also aired, much to the chagrin of the producer and host of a Channel 4 "Dispatches" documentary on the Diana death that aired the following night. Channel 4 tried to dismiss as fantasy every piece of evidence refuting the "drunk driver" theory.[FIGURE 2]
The Channel 4 "Dispatches" program included a slander of this author and EIR that was even more explicit on the question of Prince Philip. Although this author was interviewed on camera for more than two hours by Channel 4 host Martyn Gregory, less than one minute of that interview was shown on the hour-long "Dispatches" diatribe. And, that brief segment waxed hysterical about EIR's refusal to "rule out" the possibility that Prince Philip ordered the murder of Diana and Dodi. Indeed, British press accounts of the relationship between Prince Philip and Lady Diana, particularly during the brief period of her relationship with Dodi Fayed, revealed that the Royal Consort was in a constant blind rage over Diana's public disdain for the Windsors, and particularly her implicit challenge to their legitimacy on the British throne.
Gregory was given several pages in the Sunday Telegraph on June 7, to continue denouncing LaRouche, EIR, and Al Fayed. In an article regurgitating the "Dispatches" disinformation, Gregory wrote: "The numerous hares Mohamed Fayed has set running in the colours of sundry conspiracy theories are typified by Geoffrey [sic] Steinberg, chief reporter of Executive Intelligence Review, a small-circulation American magazine that specializes in conspiracy theories. He was yet another guest on the side of the motley crew supporting ITV's Wednesday night programme.
"This is the man who told Dispatches he `could not rule out the possibility' that Prince Philip was involved in the `murder of Diana.' We decided not to take Steinberg seriously at all."
Defending `Mr. Big'
Not so for MI5, another British intelligence agency. On June 10, Francis Wheen, a writer for MI5's favorite leak sheet, the political satire magazine Private Eye, penned another anti-LaRouche diatribe, in the London Guardian. Wheen, who had published smears against LaRouche in 1996, fixated on EIR's targetting of Prince Philip, whom Wheen affectionately referred to as "Mr. Big." "Many weird characters enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame during last week's flurry of TV programmes about Princess Diana," Wheen began, "but none was weirder than Jeffrey Steinberg, who appeared on Wednesday night's `studio debate' and again on Channel 4's Dispatches the next evening. There was, he admitted, `no smoking-gun proof' that Prince Philip ordered British intelligence to assassinate the Princess; nevertheless, `I can't rule it out in all honesty.' "
Wheen complained, "So who is he? For some reason, viewers were not informed that the grand-sounding Executive Intelligence Review is in fact the weekly propaganda magazine of Lyndon H. LaRouche." Wheen almost got it right, when he noted, "Executive Intelligence Review has supported Al Fayed in his vendetta against Tiny Rowland and Lonrho; and when Michael Howard refused Al Fayed's application for British citizenship, LaRouche published a defamatory article about the family connection between Howard and Harold Landy, the former chairman of a Lonrho subsidiary." Wheen then digressed into the ID-format slander that was perfected by the mid-1980s dirty tricks slander salon, run by Wall Street Anglophile spook banker John Train, as part of the "Get LaRouche" task force of the U.S. Justice Department and private agencies that framed up and railroaded LaRouche to prison. Wheen recited the litany of smears: LaRouche says "the Queen runs an international cocaine smuggling cartel," that "Henry Kissinger is a communist agent," and, interestingly, that "the Italian banker Roberto Calvi was murdered by the Duke of Kent." (Calvi was himself a member of the extended royal family.)
International terrorism
Wheen then touched on another sore spot of the House of Windsor and Club of the Isles: the British hand in sponsoring and harboring international terrorism. He tried to twist EIR's exposé of London's role in safe-housing dozens of major terrorist organizations, a fact the U.S. State Department and the CIA have acknowledged in written documents. "In recent years," Wheen wrote, "LaRouche and Steinberg have been pursuing another `unique' theory--that `international terrorism' is masterminded by none other than Lord [William] Rees-Mogg and the Daily Telegraph reporter Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.... LaRouche claims [that] Rees-Mogg and Evans-Pritchard are part of a `powerful London-centerd apparatus that declared war on the United States immediately after the inauguration of President Clinton.' Whitewater, Troopergate, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky--all these scandals can be traced back to our double-barreled desperadoes.... But Rees-Mogg and Evans-Pritchard are merely servants of the `powerful London-centered apparatus.' The Mr. Big whose orders they obey is Prince Philip.... The intention, according to LaRouche, is to discredit, and destabilise the U.S. until it is forced to become a British colony once again, thus taking the House of Windsor another giant stride on its road to world domination."
Wheen continued, "Only one person in Britain was powerful enough to thwart the conspiracy--Princess Diana, who had `declared war' on the royal family in her Panorama interview. And so she had to be killed."
Wheen ended on a curious, slightly ominous, note: "This alliance between Al Fayed and Lyndon LaRouche seems risky, to say the least. Why should a prominent public figure aid and abet such an unscrupulous fantasy-merchant? If LaRouche doesn't wish to sully his reputation, he must disown Al Fayed forthwith," Wheen wrote.
A half-dozen other slanders followed the Guardian article, in the Scotsman, on BBC-4 Radio, and even in the Danish press. One factor that clearly got the royals' blood boiling was that, according to the major British TV rating service, 12.5 million Britons watched the ITV documentary, and most of them also watched the studio debate that followed the evening news. On June 4, German national television aired the entire ITV broadcast, and major German dailies published lengthy excerpts from the transcript. In contrast, fewer than 3 million British viewers watched the Channel 4 smear the following evening. And, a Mirror newspaper poll, published on June 7, suggested that an overwhelming majority of Britons are convinced that there was more to the death of Diana than a traffic accident.
The Strategic Battle
As EIR has said from day one, the death of Princess Diana is the scandal that could hasten the fall of the House of Windsor. But, the future of the Club of the Isles oligarchy hangs in the balance today in a number of ways. The probe in Paris of Diana's death, if it turns up compelling evidence of a murder, or even of aggravated manslaughter caused by a paparazzi mob notorious for its links to British intelligence and the Crown apparatus, would certainly bring down both the Windsors and the current Socialist government in France, which also is deeply implicated in the crash and the cover-up.
On other fronts, the British establishment is torn over how to deal with the onrush of the financial collapse. Prince Philip and his circle have no compunctions about throwing the world into decades of chaos and genocide, in order to retain oligarchical control. But other, less insane forces within the City of London financial elite are apparently asking, "What do we get out of such chaos and destruction?" and may be seeking a new political alliance, perhaps with the United States, and sane forces on the continent who are opposed to the suicidal Maastricht Treaty.
Other issues that are causing divisions among the British elites include Britain's stance on the European Monetary Union, and the euro single curency. Furthermore, factions on the continent that share Prince Philip's impulse to play "chaos warfare," may be pressing for a new assault on the Asian currencies, including the Japanese yen, through the major continental banks and their offshore hedge funds, even though such a move at this moment would almost certainly trigger a global financial explosion with unpredictable consequences.
Within the extended European oligarchy, which has, for decades, been under the boot of Prince Philip's Club of the Isles, there is intensive in-fighting and factional warfare, adding further to the crisis atmosphere spreading across Eurasia. The common point of agreement among the "chaos" factions within the British and continental oligarchies, is that the power of the United States, as the pillar of the nation-state system, must be destroyed in the immediate period ahead, lest LaRouche's ideas for a nation-state-centered New Bretton Woods solution to the present global mess, be adopted, along with LaRouche's vision for a Eurasian Land-Bridge plan of global economic reconstructed.
New holes in cover-up of
Diana murder plot
Shortly after midnight, on Aug. 30-31, 1997, David Laurent, an off-duty senior French police official, was driving alone in his car on the right bank of the Seine River, heading toward the Place de l'Alma tunnel where, moments later, Diana Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul would die in a car crash. As he drove, Laurent was passed by a speeding white Fiat Uno, according to accounts he provided nine months ago to French Criminal Brigade police probing the Diana crash. As he approached the tunnel, Laurent noticed that the Fiat Uno that had sped by him, was now crawling along in the right traffic lane, almost at a standstill, just before the tunnel entrance.
Although the behavior of the Fiat driver was a bit bizarre, Laurent drove on. It was, after all, Saturday night on the final weekend of the summer, and there were a lot of strange goings-on on the streets of Paris. Less than a moment later, however, Laurent heard a loud explosion from inside the tunnel, as he was driving a short distance ahead.
It was not until the next morning that Laurent realized that the explosion he had heard from inside the tunnel was the crash that claimed the lives of Diana and her companions. And it was not until several weeks later that police forensic tests confirmed that the crash had been caused by a collision between the Mercedes 280-S carrying Diana, Fayed, Paul, and bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones, the sole survivor of the crash, and a Fiat Uno. Within hours of the crash, police at the scene had gathered up evidence--a side mirror and fragments of a tail light--suggesting that a two-car collision had occurred. A police sketch, drawn at the crash site, labeled a section of the tunnel the "collision zone." Several witnesses, interviewed during the first week after the crash, had described a small hatchback car, cutting in front of the Mercedes at the tunnel entrance, jamming its breaks inside the tunnel, fleeing the crash scene, and so on.
But, until Laurent's critical piece of the story became public in early June, the role of the Fiat had remained ambiguous--despite the fact that the car and its driver have disappeared. Was the missing Fiat tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was it critical to the most spectacular vehicular homicide in history?
Laurent's description of the Fiat, speeding to a spot near the tunnel entrance, less than a minute ahead of Diana's car, which was under chase from several other cars and motorcycles, strongly suggests the latter possibility.
For reasons yet unexplained, Laurent's crucial eyewitness account was withheld from the chief investigating magistrate, Hervé Stephan, for months.
Tampering with evidence
This is not the first time that the French police in charge of the investigation have tampered with evidence. Within hours of the crash, French police had told reporters that the Mercedes carrying Diana had been travelling at speeds of more than 120 miles per hour. How did they know? They told reporters that the speedometer of the mangled Mercedes had been frozen at more than 120 mph. EIR investigators determined that the French "leak" had to be a lie. Daimler Benz safety experts had told EIR reporters that, in any crash, the speedometer immediately goes back to zero. Two weeks later, the French police "corrected" the error; but this time, the media scarcely reported the correction. Similarly, French police had lied to reporters that Diana had been pinned in the rear compartment of the Mercedes, and saying that this was why it took so long to get her into an ambulance and to a hospital. Photographic evidence and eyewitness accounts later proved that it, too, was a premeditated lie by the French police.
In the case of the Laurent testimony, sources tell EIR that the police have claimed that they have withheld certain vital evidence from Magistrate Stephan, to avoid the information falling into the hands of the attorneys for the paparazzi. The police allegedly claimed that their investigation "would be jeopardized" if the paparazzi were to learn crucial details.
The Laurent revelation, which was leaked to the London Daily Mirror on June 4 by a well-placed French police source, was not the only new piece of evidence to emerge in early June. On June 3, the British independent television network ITV aired a one-hour investigative report, "Diana: The Secrets Behind the Crash," that seriously discredits French police claims that driver Henri Paul was drunk at the time of the crash.
Carbon monoxide found in Paul's blood
The assertion that Paul was drunk and high on two prescription drugs is pivotal to the ongoing effort, by the French government and the British establishment, to cast the crash as nothing more than a case of reckless, drunk driving. The claim that Paul had blood alcohol levels three times the legal limit at the time of the crash, was based solely on tests conducted by French coroners within hours of the crash. Independent forensic experts, including Dr. Peter Vanesis of the University of Glasgow, who reviewed the autopsy report, had harsh criticisms of the post mortem on numerous technical grounds.
The ITV report revealed that the forensic tests also showed a near-lethal level of carbon monoxide as well. EIR has independently learned that it was a separate toxicological test on Paul's blood sample, that revealed a carbon monoxide level of more than 30% at the time of the crash.
Yet, Dodi Fayed had no carbon monoxide in his blood. Is it possible that Paul could have had high levels of alcohol, traces of two prescription drugs, and toxic levels of carbon monoxide in his blood at the moment of the crash, and yet Fayed had no carbon monoxide present? Not if the carbon monoxide was inside the passenger cabin of the Mercedes.
Furthermore, if Paul had been somehow poisoned with carbon monoxide sometime prior to getting behind the wheel of the Mercedes, experts interviewed by ITV say he would have shown obvious signs, such as dizziness, loss of balance, loss of depth perception, and an unbearable, throbbing pain in his temple. Security camera video footage of Paul, taken in the lobby of the Ritz Hotel between 9 p.m. and midnight, and aired in the ITV documentary, clearly showed that Paul had none of the tell-tale signs of being drunk or suffering from the effects of carbon monoxide.
In a live television interview, aired one hour after the ITV broadcast, the documentary's host, Nicholas Owen, stated that he believed that the blood sample used in the post mortem was probably not taken from Paul. There were a dozen other corpses in the Paris city morgue at the time that Paul was brought in. This startling conclusion by Owen, adds further weight to EIR's charge that the French police--as distinct from chief investigating Magistrate Stephan--have been running a vicious cover-up of the events surrounding the crash.
The ITV documentary also cited several eyewitness accounts that a powerful burst of light inside the tunnel, seconds before the crash, may have blinded Paul. Owen showed a commercially produced anti-personnel laser, that he purchased in a Paris shop for $300, to buttress the possibility that such a device was used in the vehicular attack.
EIR Counterintelligence Director Jeffrey Steinberg appeared along with Owen and a half-dozen other investigators and expert analysts on the nationally televised interview show. Details of that broadcast and the vortex of media controversy, sparked by the ITV show and a second documentary, aired on June 4 on Channel Four TV in Britain, will appear in a forthcoming EIR (see also, the Editorial in this issue).
In a move that promises to raise even more questions about what happened in the Paris tunnel on Aug. 31, 1997, Magistrate Stephan convened an extraordinary group interrogation, or "confrontation," on June 5, at the Justice Ministry in Paris. Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi's father and a civil party to the case, was invited to participate, as were a dozen eyewitnesses to the crash. The nine paparazzi who stand to be prosecuted for manslaughter and interference in the rescue effort, were also interrogated by Stephan. Details of what took place are not yet available.
Comprehensive background on the circles implicated in the murder
of Princess Diana can be found in EIR's 1997 Special Report,
The True Story Behind the Fall of the House of Windsor.
This article appears in the
June 19, 1998 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
PRESS RELEASE
EIR Reveals How Diana Murder Cover-up
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Terrorists have vowed to kidnap or kill Prince Harry when he fights in Iraq, it is reported.
The 22-year-old is due to be sent out in May with colleagues from the Blues and Royals regiment. Threats have been posted on extremist websites since his deployment was revealed, The Sun says. One message said: "Prince Harry will be sent to Iraq to be killed by Muslims." Another added: "May Allah give him what he deserves - like his fellow crusaders." Army officials fear the Prince will be paraded on television if he is kidnapped.
A Blues and Royals source told the paper: "Officially Harry is being treated just like any other soldier but in reality everyone knows how desperate the insurgents out there will be to get their hands on him."
Internet terror expert Neil Doyle was quoted as saying: "Harry would be the ultimate prize for one of these insurgent groups. "He would be worth his weight in gold in propaganda terms if killed or captured." From the end of May, the prince will be patrolling in Scimitar armoured reconnaissance vehicles in Maysan. Harry will this week pose as a hooded hostage in a special training exercise, the paper says.
His men will use tear gas and stun grenades to free him. More than 100 UK soldiers have been killed since the 2003 invasion.
British judge seen "no evidence" Diana was murdered
LONDON (Reuters) - The judge investigating the death of Princess Diana said on Monday she had not seen "a shred of evidence" to back claims that she had been murdered. Coronor Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was responding to a request from lawyers representing Mohamed al Fayed, whose son Dodi died alongside Diana in a Paris car crash 10 years ago, to delay a long awaited inquest into the their deaths.
This article appears in the July 7, 2000 issue
of Executive Intelligence Review.
This article appeared in the June 12, 1998 issue
of Executive Intelligence Review.
