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I Doubt That Dr David Kelly Committed Suicide |
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Monday, 14 March 2005 |
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The German word for suicide is more direct than the English: Selbstmord - self-murder.
Did Dr David Kelly - husband, father of three daughters and a leading world expert in chemical and germ warfare - murder himself, or was he murdered by others?
When his violent death was first reported I felt he was likely a victim of a wicked system that had used him and spat him out. I was very sceptical that he could have bled to death from one cut wrist.
At first, the media spoke of 'alleged suicide', but by last November I became aware that reporters were speaking of Dr Kelly's 'suicide' without qualification. Objecting to this, on 15 December I wrote a letter to the Morning Star - key extracts follow: |
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Of Human Wreckage and Zionists Dreams |
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Palestine/Israel
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Sunday, 13 March 2005 |
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Of Human Wreckage and Zionists Dreams
Withdrawal from Gaza?
The sea was warm. A kingfisher perched momentarily atop a rusting reinforcing rod with a tiny fish in its bill. Its iridescent beauty was a glistening tear drop on the face of this weeping land. Strings of boats were streaming out of the harbour with the powerful mother ship towing the tiddlers astern. The Prophet in action. Later they would become the long skein of lights lying 5 kilometres from shore all night. They strayed no further mind you because the sea is also occupied in addition to the land and the air.
I am here to advance the work of the charity I founded with the voyage of the Dove and the Dolphin in February last year. The second object of this charity is ‘to relieve poverty, distress and hardship among the Palestinian people and to promote the welfare of Palestinian children’. I was also here to be a witness and to stand with my Palestinian brothers and sisters. I wanted to see this part of Palestine again 2004 years since the birth of the Christ 80 miles away and in the 56th year of the nakba (catastrophe – literally the story of the falling down). |
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Palestine/Israel
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Monday, 22 September 2003 |
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Gaza War Cemetery
The Palestinian gardeners trim the immaculate lawns. Blood red
Bourgainvilleas climb the limestone walls. The British are good at
death. My eye through the camera focuses on many of about three and a
half thousand gravestones caught by the name, the unit or the
inscription chosen by the family. 3,217 of these fell in WW1 and were
joined by 210 brothers and sisters from round the pink world in WW11.
The family of Private Alfred Crittle, Royal West Kent Regt 19th April
1917 said ‘to see his face, to hear his voice, what would we give’.
Alongside lies Rifleman Norman Victor Crouch 8th Battn. Hampshire Regt
and his folk chose ‘faithful until death’. They later receive this as
do all the next of kin:-
‘He whom this scroll commemorates was numbered among those who, at the
call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured
hardness, faced danger, and finally passed out of the sight of men by
the path of duty and self-sacrifice, by giving up their own lives that
others might live in freedom.
Let those who come after see to it that
his name be not forgotten’
He took his last breath during the Third Battle of Gaza on the 2nd of
November 1917 as did at least another two hundred men and women on that
same day.
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