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"One
day I'm going to go up in a helicopter and it'll just
blow up. MI5 will do away with me" -
Princess Diana (Sunday Mirror,
January 4th 1998).
Contents
There has been much comment
(notably on the web) on who could have killed Princess Diana
and why. Many people who have investigated the crash have
uncovered facts that strongly indicate that this was no
ordinary car crash. There are so many inconsistencies in the
offical account and the French investigation that the
subject has been left wide open for speculation. There has
been no official inquiry in the UK, let alone any proper
analysis of the facts surrounding the crash by the
mainstream British media. However, the only facts on which
most people agree concerning the crash that killed Diana,
her partner Dodi Fayed, and her driver Henri Paul are as
follows: At 00:20 on Sunday August 31st 1997, their Mercedes
left the Ritz Hotel in Paris, with her bodyguard, Trevor
Rees-Jones. Five minutes later, it crashed into a pillar of
the road tunnel underneath the Point d'Alma. Paul was killed
immediately, Fayed was pronounced dead at 1.30 am, and
Diana, after being transferred from the wreckage at 1 am,
was pronounced dead at 4 am. Only Rees-Jones survived the
crash, with serious facial injuries.
Although there
has been an inquiry
into the crash in France (which found no foul play), there
are still many
inconsistencies in the "official" accounts of her death. The
best research we have read so far is The Thirteenth
Pillar - The Death of Di Reconsidered by Terry Hanstock
in the Winter 1999 issue of Lobster.
We recommend that readers interested in more background
information on the crash purchase this issue. Also important
has been the ITV documentary Diana: The Secrets behind
the Crash (shown in 1998), which was first to publicise
the "big flash" that Francoise
and Valerie Levistre
saw as they were coming out of the tunnel just before the
Mercedes crashed.
Notably, very little serious
analysis of the contradictions behind the "official" version
have appeared in the British media: The one exception was
an article
published by the Independent on Sunday entitled
Was Diana Murdered ? on 19th October 1997. Thus, the
main person left publisicing the widely held view in Britain
that Diana's car crash was no accident is Mohammed Al Fayed
(whose son Dodi died in the crash). His website
provides a wealth of interesting background information on
the crash which is intended to support his belief that MI6
were responsible for the crash. In the High-Court of England
(during the Neil Hamilton libel case in 1999), he openly
laid the blame at the door of the House of Windsor, and more
specifically, Prince Philip. In part of his website called
The
Intelligence Files,
Fayed, not unreasonably, says:
If
MI6 has nothing to hide why doesn't Tony Blair get up in
the House of Commons and say so ?
He also claims
that Princess Diana told him the intelligence services
"might one day take her life". More controversially, he says
the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) in the United
States pocess a document that implicates Prince Philip in
the plot to kill Diana. The document, of 38 whose
authenticity has yet to be proven, alleges that Prince
Philip saw the relationship between Diana and his son
as:
"A
serious threat to the dynasty should (the) relationship
endure"
Al Fayed
further claims Prince Philip is quoted as saying:
"Such
an affair is racially and morally repugnant and no son of
a Bedouin camel trader is fit for the mother of a future
king"
The papers held
by the NSA have been described as "a fact that conspiracy
theorists have always dreamed about" (The Guardian,
6th August 1999). The NSA informed the newspaper that it was
"Holding reports from from foreign intelligence under both
top secret and secret categories". This is thought to
include MI5 and MI6. Al Fayed claims that there are up to
1,056 references to Princess Diana in the 38 documents. The
reports cannot be released because of "exceptionally grave
damage to the national security" of the USA, and presumably,
the UK. Could this include some the quotes shown above
?
Apart from the
death of Princess Diana in 1997, the only other suspicious
car crash - involving a Mercedes like the one driven by
Henri Paul - was the fatal car crash that killed the veteran
Czechoslovak politician Alexander Dubcek in 1992. In 1999,
Jaroslav Volf, the former head of Dubcek's Social Democratic
Party (SDS) was quoted as saying that "too many questions
remain unanswered". As Czechoslovakia broke up, Dubcek began
to appear the most logical choice to become the first
President on an independent Slovakia. However, on 1st
September 1992, Dubcek's chauffeur-driven Mercedes skidded
off the Bratislava-Prague highway in heavy rain. Dubcek said
later in hospital that he had sensed something was wrong and
had laid down on the rear seat of the car well before the
crash. His driver suffered minor injuries, but for some
unexplained reason, Dubcek was found lying 20 meters in
front of the car - it was presumed that he had been
catapulted out of the rear window as the car spun out of
control. Like in the Diana crash, no attempt was made to
preserve the forensic evidence - the Mercedes was destroyed
following an "examination" by investigators. Dubcek's lawyer
and the SDS party is convinced there was foul play but are
not optimistic that an investigation by the Slovak
authorities was look at all the facts.
Events
leading up to the crash: The last day in Paris
Here we suggest what we think
is most likely scenario of events that led to the crash and
take a closer look at what happened in the previous 24
hours: The inconsistencies start the day before the couples
death. On their arrival in Paris from Sardinia on 30th
August they drove into Paris in a Mercedes driven by a Ritz
chauffeur, Philippe Journot. The Al Fayed family later
claimed that the car was harassed by photographers on bikes
and "a mysterious dark car" which tried to "cut in front and
slow them down". (Independent on Sunday, 7th
September 1997).
On the same day, Diana and Dodi
Fayed also visited the former house of the Nazi sympathiser,
the Duke of Windsor where Diana was given a "guided tour of
the house and garden" by Dodi Fayed. Mohammed Al Fayed owned
the house, and was at the time auctioning some of contents
and property of the disgraced Duke and his wife Wallis
Simpson. At one point during the evening, Dodi Fayed slipped
out of the hotel to collect a £130,000 ring from a
jeweller's which Diana had chosen from it's sister shop in
Monte Carlo. Later, Fayed spoke to one of his cousins, a
Saudi citizen, Hussein Yassin. He said Fayed was "happy and
elated" and he told Yassin:
"We are very
serious . . . we are going to get married". (Independent
on Sunday, 7th September 1997).
Imagine the reaction of the
British royal family if MI6 were reporting back to them
details of Diana's private life ! Thus, it is worth
speculating that at this point it well may have been the
intention of the couple to announce their engagement the
following morning (without, as protocol dictates, asking the
permission of the Queen). This, coupled with possibility
that Diana and Dodi were going to live in the Duke of
Windsor's former house may have been to much to bear for the
Royals. Hence, the speculation in the Arab press that she
was killed so as to prevent the mother of the heir to the
British throne becoming a Muslim (like her friend Jemima
Goldsmith had done when she married Imran Khan, the famous
Pakistani cricket player). Robert Fisk, the Independent's
correspondent in The Lebanon was told:
Had l heard what
the Lebanese were saying about Diana's death? They had
convinced themselves . . . that it was a plot. The
British establishment could not stomach the idea that
Diana - in love with an Egyptian Muslim - might herself
convert to Islam, So they got rid of her . . .
(Independent on Sunday, 12th October 1997).
After a meal, the couple
decided to make their way to Dodi's private apartment at Rue
Arsene-Houssaye. However, the Mercedes is prevented from
proceeding along its preferred route (witnessed by
Thierry
H) - a car that
blocks the way along the Avenue de Champ Elysees - thus
forcing the Mercedes onto the route that leads to the tunnel
at the Point d'Alma. None of the two cars or motorbike
chasing the Mercedes at this point contain any paparazzi -
they all appear in the first couple of minutes after the
crash.
As the Mercedes approaches the
tunnel it is being chased by two vehicles and one motorbike
- it's possible that one of the vehicles (a white Fiat Uno)
rams the Mercedes just before the crash "causing it to spin
out of control" (The Guardian, November 13th, 1997).
As the Mercedes gets nearer the tunnel, a motorbike prevents
one car (driven by Brenda
Wells) from taking
the approach road that leads to the tunnel. It's possible
that a remote-controlled device was used - causing an
explosion (reported by CNN) which was heard by witnesses -
that disabled the driving controls and electronics of the
Mercedes. A strobe light was also used to disable the driver
on the final seconds before it entered the tunnel - which
some witnesses claim was completely dark as the lights had
been tuned off minutes earlier.
After hearing an explosion and
then a bang, witnesses ran to the scene - only to be told to
"back off" by an unknown person to runs towards them out of
the tunnel from the direction of the crashed car. A second
person, whose identity is also unknown, was seen in the
Mercedes removing the drivers head off the car horn.
Witnesses also report that a helicopter was seen above just
before the crash - was it monitoring events on the ground ?
As the electricity has been cut in the tunnel, the
traffic
cameras don't work,
thus ensuring there is no video evidence of the Mercedes
final approach to the tunnel, or what vehicles can be seen
leaving it. One witness, Gary
Hunter saw two
vehicles race out of the tunnel, others saw a motorbike.
The person who takes Paul's
head off the car horn injects him with a syringe containing
a cocktail of alcohol and other drugs. Thus, the media
settle with this as the "official" version of the car crash:
the drunk driver was the cause of the crash that killed
Princess Diana. After three contradictory autopsies, Paul is
buried on the advice of his lawyers, and not cremated, as
they advise his body may have to be exhumed again.
If MI6 were involved, then they
certainly appear to have the means kill Princess Diana by
faking a car crash. In 1992, for example, former MI6 agent
Richard
Tomlinson says they
planned to kill President Milosevic by using a fake car
crash in Geneva. In 1996, according to the former MI6
agent David
Shayler, they
failed in their attempt to kill the Libyan leader Colonel
Muammar Gaddafi - but the car bomb they used killed scores
of Libyan civilians (thus, Gaddafi, who has survived at
least three attempts made on his life by western
intelligence services, was also the only leader of a country
to openly speculate that MI6 had killed Diana).
Successive British governments
have sought to keep from both the British Parliament and the
British people any details of MI6 assassination attempts
against foreign leaders, hence the present hysteria of the
Blair government towards both Tomlinson and Shayler. We
believe that the Tomlinson
revelations are very
significant, as he has specifically claimed that MI6 planned
to kill Slobodan Milosevic, then President of the Yugoslav
Republic of Serbia, by:
"Disorientating
(his) chauffeur using a blinding strobe light as (his
car) passed through one of Geneva's road
tunnels"
You can read here Tomlinson
claims that MI6 may be involved in the death of Princess
Diana in his Statement
made on 12th May 1999 to the French inquiry into the crash.
You can also read the details of the Attempt
by MI6 to assassinate Milosevic in
1992. If it's true
that MI6 planned to kill Milosevic in such a way, then it
proves they had the means and capabilities to organise the
crash that killed Princess Diana. There have also been a
number of suspicious deaths caused by car crashes of people
working in the defence industry in Britain during the
1980's, which we have summarised from Tony Collin's book
Open
Verdict.
Historically, in recent times,
the only other time the royal family are said to have been
involved in murder was the famous Jack the Ripper murders in
London during 1888. Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward
(known as "Eddy" to his friends) is one of the most famous
suspects in the Jack the Ripper case, figuring in no less
than three
major theories. It
must be added that involvement of the House of Windsor in
these crimes has never been proven.
Was
Diana pregnant six weeks pregnant ?
On September
19, 1997, Time quoted Agence France-Presse as
saying that Diana may have been six-weeks pregnant at the
time of the crash. On July 15, 1997, The Chicago
Tribune reported that Diana was pictured leaning over a
yacht and reportedly telling the reporters:
"You
are going to get a big surprise, you'll see. You are
going to get a big surprise with the next thing I
do."
Was she hinting
at becoming pregnant ? or getting engaged to Dodi ? On
September 8th 1997, Time magazine said Diana had
later denied making the statement. Frederic Maillez, an
emergency worker with SOS Medecins, who was the first medic
on the scene of the crash, said that an associate at the
crash site told him that Diana was drifting in and out of
consciousness, and at one point saying she was six-weeks
pregnant while making a rubbing gesture on her belly.
Apparently, the doctor now refuses to say how she looked or
what she said. Furthermore, Mailliez was quoted as saying
that if she told him anything:
"I
would say it only to her family, her sons, her
husband."
At some point
in the morning, according to the News of the World
(23rd November 1997), Diana had requested that she be buried
with Dodi. If this is true, who did Diana tell this to, and
why did the Spencer family not honour this final wish of
hers ? If they were not told about it, then why not ? Is
this because the royal family would never have allowed it ?
Remember, it was diplomats from the British embassy in Paris
who were the first official representatives to reach the
hospital, and they would have reported any details straight
back to Buckingham Palace first.
Finally, why
was Diana's body left alone in the chapel for almost a week
during which no member of the royal family visited her ? Is
is because, as the Independent on Sunday suggested in
an article Was Diana Murdered ? in 1997:
"Her refusal to be
cowed, to go quietly . . . had taken her into new
avenues, to campaigning for the abolition of land mines
to the fury of the United States government and the
shadowy arms community. She was becoming ever more
closely involved with a Muslim, and not just any old
Muslim but the son of a man who was, and is, a thorn in
the side of the Conservative British establishment. So,
she was cut down" (Independent on Sunday, 19th October
1997).
If it was foul play, then a
number of people would have been involved:
- A car was used to block the
route of the Mercedes thus forcing it onto the road that
leads to the tunnel at the Point d'Alma as witnessed by
Thierry
H;
- At least one of the
paparazzi on a fast motorbike chasing the Mercedes was
working for MI6 (Tomlinson)
- At least two cars may have
been involved in causing the crash (one may have carried
personnel that used a strobe light to blind the driver
(Brenda
Wells)
another may have used some kind of electronic
interference device that seized up the cars electronics
(potentially up to four people);
- Witnesses
saw a helicopter above just before the crash - was it
monitoring events on the ground and relaying them back to
a control centre (the British Embassy where
Tomlinson
claims
that up to six MI6 officers were stationed over that
weekend) ?;
- Who was the
motorcyclist who forced Brenda
Wells
off
the road ?
- Who were
the two people seen near the Mercedes seconds after the
crash, and before the paparazzi and stunned onlookers
reached the scene ?
Although the French
investigation in her death appeared to find no foul play, it
is clear that it did not investigate all the evidence, such
as the claims made by witnesses that:
- The most direct route from
the Ritz Hotel to Dodi's apartment at Rue Arsene-Houssaye
would have been through the Place de la Concorde and
along the Avenue de Champ Elysees - instead Henri Paul
took an unexplained route that led him to the Point
d'Alma tunnel. It's claimed that Paul was prevented from
driving only the shorter route by an "pursuing paparazzi
motorist" who blocked the exit road before the Alma
Tunnel, according to one witness Thierry
H.
- They heard a helicopter
above the Point d'Alma just before the crash (reported in
Lobster);
- Dodi's mobile phone: Dodi
Fayed was seen climbing into the Mercedes clutching his
mobile phone, which would have been automatically located
and positioned by the network even if it was not in use.
Experts can be so accurate because mobile phones emit a
continuous signal which registers with ground
transmitters logging their precise location on computer.
Apparently, French police started looking at records of
mobile phone networks to pinpoint the number of cars
entering the tunnel moments before the crash. The
question is did Dodi make any calls on his mobile before
the fatal crash, and if so, who did he call ?
- They heard an explosion
followed by a crash (reported by CNN); For example, one
(unnamed) witness heard: "a loud bang or explosion,
screeching tires, a crashing sound, more screeching tires
and another crashing sound".
- That witnesses
(Mike
Walker,
Tom
Richardson and
Joanna
Luz), were
prevented from entering the tunnel following the crash by
a man who ran out shouting at them to get back, because
the car was going to explode - it did so 20 seconds later
. . . Crucially they saw someone jump out of the crashed
car. The explosion was also heard by Michael
Solomon.
There is therefore
speculation that this may have been the same person who
it thought by some to have moved Henri Paul's head of the
car horn to stop it sounding.
- Some witnesses claim to
have seen a bright flash in the tunnel that was used to
disorientate the driver, Henri Paul - seen by at least
four people: Francoise
and Valerie Levistre
(who were just coming out of the tunnel as the crash
happened; an unnamed French taxi driver, who saw a flash
of light, and they heard a crash (cited in
France-Soir, 10th September, 1997); and British
citizen Brenda
Wells, who saw
"strong lights, like flashes" before the
crash.
- There was white paint on
Diana's Mercedes indicating that the white Fiat Uno had
crashed into it - possibly on purpose - just before it
entered the tunnel
- Although it is commonly
accepted that the white Fiat Uno was directly involved in
the crash, one witness (such as British lawyer,
Gary
Hunter), heard
the crash and rushed to his window and saw "a small dark
car" leaving the tunnel "shadowed by a second vehicle, a
white Mercedes".
- One witness
(Brian
Anderson) claim
they saw a powerful motorbike swerve in front of Diana's
Mercedes at the time of the crash. Tomlinson
claimed that one of the paparazzi on the night was
working for MI6 "one a fast motorbike". Was that
motorbike also involved in causing the crash
?
- Why has the driver of the
white Fiat Uno not come forward ? This, arguably, was the
most famous car crash since Princess Grace of Monaco died
in 1980. Why has the driver chosen not even to forward
the details to the French police - something he or she
could have done anonymously. There may not have been
anything suspicious about the car and its involvement in
the crash - it could have been a genuine accident. It's
possible the car had been stolen and the driver choose
not to stop; its also possible that the car was being
driven by someone who was an illegal immigrant or did not
have legal papers - or even someone who was banned from
driving (possibly even drunk that night). These are all
possibilities as well. The white Fiat Uno has become the
"grassy knoll" of Princess Diana's death: unless the
driver of the white Fiat Uno is found speculation will
continue about the motives and identity of the
driver.
Other claims
include:
- Why were there no proper
autopsies carried out on Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed
before their burial ? If a proper autopsy was carried out
on Dodi Fayed it might well have detected cocaine in his
blood. It has been widely reported that Fayed apparently
had a "fondness" for what Private Eye (31st
October 1997) called "Colombia's greatest export". For
this, allegedly, Fayed was known as "Hoover" such was his
appetite for cocaine. Similar insinuations also appeared
in The Independent on Sunday (2nd November 1997).
Would Diana have also tested positive for cocaine ? and
more controversially, was she 6 weeks pregnant
?
- Is it true that at least
six MI6 officers were stationed in the British Embassy in
Paris on the weekend of the crash ? At least one MI6
officer was detailed to follow Diana and Dodi after they
arrived from their holiday in Sardinia (The
People, 9th November 1997). And as
the "official" head of MI6 what did Robin Cook, the
Labour foreign secretary know about the activities of MI6
in Paris that weekend ?
- Why did it take over some
40 minutes for the ambulance that carried Princess Diana
from the crash site to the Pitie Salpetriere Hospital.
The ambulance - which had a police escort - was also
claimed to have pulled off the road within sight of the
hospital so Diana could be given adrenaline, although
hospital doctors deny that this took place.
- If Henri Paul was drunk
(which is contradicted by the Ritz video cameras) then
why would Trevor Rees-Jones have allowed him to drive ?
Rees-Jones has already stated that Paul was not drunk.
Lobster
mentions the possibility that his body was injected with
drugs "immediately after the crash, possibly by the
individual seen getting out of the Mercedes". To us, this
appears to be the most likely possibility; after all,
just who was the person seen in the Mercedes ostensibly
moving Paul's head off the car horn ?
- Why did Trevor Rees-Jones
strap on his seat belt seconds before the crash
?
- Was Henri Paul was an MI6
agent ? after the crash it was revealed that he had huge
amounts of money - far in excess of what he would have
been able to earn working at the Ritz (including payments
of up to £4000 per month). Tomlinson
claims Paul was an MI6 agent paid to spy on Dodi and
Diana, whilst others cited in Lobster
allege that he also a MOSSAD spy and worked for French
intelligence. As Hanstock notes, Paul, as deputy Head of
Security at the Ritz would have been ideally placed to
observe and monitor the coming and going of guests at the
Ritz - itself used in 1993 as a secret meeting place to
discuss huge arms sales between the then British Defence
Procurement minister Jonathan Aitken and Saudi Prince
Mohammed, son of King Fahd. The huge arms sales to Saudi
Arabia are alleged to have also involved Mark Thatcher,
the son of the British prime minister, Margaret
Thatcher;
- Why did the
French police allow the crash site to become "polluted" -
they cleared the road and tunnel without preserving
important evidence and opened up the tunnel hours after
the accident;
- Why did
French police decline Daimler Benz's offer to send their
own engineers to help with the investigation
?
- Why were
there no British photographers outside the Ritz on that
night ? - as
Lobster
notes, were they warned off ?
- Is there
any significance in the fact that Diana's Mercedes had
been broken into much earlier and had taken to a garage
for repairs ?
Anonymous
Eye Witness Report
There were also
reports of a second car, just ahead of Diana's, at the time
of the crash, and that this may be a crucial factor in her
death.
PARIS/WIESBADEN,
Sept. 9th 1997 (EIRNS)--There are two separate witnesses,
both of whom choose to remain anonymous, who are quoted
by the newspaper Journal du Dimanche, saying that a car
driving IN FRONT OF, the Mercedes S280, forced the
Mercedes to start braking, as it entered the tunnel. The
first witness says:
"The
Mercedes was driving on the right hand, shortly before
the entry of the tunnel, preceded by a dark-colored
automobile, of which make I cannot say. This car
clearly was attempting to force the Mercedes to brake
. . . The driver of the Mercedes veered into the
left-hand lane, and then entered the tunnel.''
The witness
said that what drew his attention to the scene, was the
loud sound of the Mercedes' gears being suddenly lowered.
The other
witness, who was walking along the riverside, said he was
surprised by the "sound of a motor humming very loudly.''
He said he saw a Mercedes:
"travelling
behind another automobile. I believe that the reason
the Mercedes accelerated so suddenly, was to try to
veer into the left lane, and pass that car.''
This raises
the possibility, or perhaps probability, that Mercedes
driver Henri Paul thought, or was convinced, that that
automobile was driven by people who had the intent of
killing his passengers, and therefore, decided to pass
that car at any cost, by suddenly massively accelerating,
from the 100 kilometers per hour he was driving just
before the tunnel, to the 150 kph in the tunnel. Also
noteworthy, is the Journal du Dimanche report, that there
are 16 meters of skid marks left by the Mercedes' tires.
Police
experts say they are unable, at the present time, to
attribute a cause to the sudden braking.
Source:
Journal du Dimanche, September 7th,
1997
Now that the
French authorities have completed their investigation,
the way is now open for the British authorities to have a
proper inquest in the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi
Fayed. We certainly believe that if all the available
evidence was presented and evidence taken from witnesses as
it presently stands, then the only conclusion a jury would
come to is that they were unlawfully killed or possibly,
murdered. This, however, considering the secrecy surrounding
the intelligence services in Britain and the royal family,
is highly unlikely.
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