{"id":6043,"date":"2009-07-07T11:55:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T10:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2009-07-07T11:55:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T10:55:54","slug":"dr-david-kelly-was-writing-expose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/dr-david-kelly-was-writing-expose\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. David Kelly was writing expose"},"content":{"rendered":"

British weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly was writing an expose about his work with anthrax and his warnings that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction at the time of his death in July 2003, according to a report<\/a> published in a British newspaper.<\/p>\n

Kelly\u2019s death \u2013 said to have been a suicide \u2013 has stirred controversy, as it came on the heels of testimony to the House of Commons about a memo which purported that Britain had \u201csexed up\u201d a dossier on Iraq\u2019s alleged weapons of mass destruction. A Parliamentary inquiry ruled that the death had been suicide, though it also included testimony<\/a> from a former British ambassador who quotes Kelly as having said, \u201cI will probably be found dead in the woods\u201d if Iraq were invaded.<\/p>\n

The new report says Kelly had spoken with an Oxford publisher several times about a book.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had several discussions with a publisher in Oxford and was seeking advice on how far he could go without breaking the law on secrets,\u201d the UK Daily Express alleged<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kelly\u2019s computers were seized in the wake of his death. He was a signatory to Britain\u2019s Official Secrets Act, which allows for the prosecution of those who talk to the press about state secrets and prescribes a more stringent framework for secrecy than in the United States.<\/p>\n

According to the paper, \u201che was intending to reveal that he warned Prime Minister Tony Blair there were no weapons of mass destruction anywhere in Iraq weeks before the \u00adBritish and American invasion\u2026 and was also intending to lift the lid on a potentially bigger scandal, his own secret dealings in germ warfare with the apartheid regime in South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n

The allegations of a potential Kelly expose come from a new film about biological weapons being debuted in London on the sixth anniversary of Kelly\u2019s death titled \u201cAnthrax War\u201d (the documentary aired earlier this year<\/a> on Canadian public television). Kelly was an expert in biological warfare agents, as well as a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq.<\/p>\n

\u2018Anthrax War\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018The deeper you look into the murky world of governments and germ warfare, the more worrying it becomes,\u201d the film\u2019s director, Bob Coen, is quoted as saying. \u201cWe have proved there is a black \u00admarket in anthrax. David Kelly was of particular interest to us because he was a world expert on anthrax and he was involved in some degree with assisting the secret germ warfare program in apartheid South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation\u2019s summary of the film, Coen \u201cwas raised in Zimbabwe where the former white regime has been accused of unleashing anthrax against the black population\u2026 [who] embarks on a journey that raises troubling questions about the FBI\u2019s investigation of the 21st century\u2019s first act of biological terrorism.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoen\u2019s investigation takes him from the U.S. to the U.K. and from the edge of Siberia to the tip of Africa. In a rare interview, Coen confronts \u2018Doctor Death\u2019 Wouter Basson, who headed Project Coast, the South African apartheid-era bio-warfare program,\u201d the network\u2019s website adds. \u201cProject Coast used germ warfare against select targets within the country\u2019s black population.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnthrax War also investigates the mysterious deaths of some of the world\u2019s leading anthrax scientists, including Dr. David Kelly, the UK\u2019s top military microbiologist, the Soviet defector Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, and Dr. Bruce Ivins,\u201d the CBC continues. \u201cThe FBI claims – despite the doubts of highly ranked U.S. officials – that Ivins was the only person behind the U.S. anthrax murders.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Torrent download of Anthrax War is available at this link<\/strong><\/a>. Several shorter clips are also available on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

John Byrne<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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