Stumbled upon this again, when looking into the July 2014 shootdown of Malaysian flight MH370 over Ukraine.
It happened during Bush 43's Iraq war (Coalition of the Willing, TM).
Did you know that the body of Iraq weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, who died mysteriously in 2003 after being named by 10 Downing Street for criticising its war-promoting dossier, had been exhumed and his remains cremated?
Did you know that Prime Minister Tony Blair and his former flat-mate and Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, prevented an inquest – one that would have had legal investigatory powers – by setting up the non-statutory Hutton Inquiry into his ‘suspected suicide’, and that they did that before Dr Kelly’s body had been identified?
Did you know that, a week before his death, when his wife said she and Dr Kelly had fled their Oxfordshire home for a West Country retreat to avoid the press, her ‘utterly traumatized’ husband was actually in his local pub that July evening winning a game of cribbage with his regular league teammates?
Did you know when she told Lord Hutton that they had resumed their journey to Cornwall after an overnight hotel stop in Weston-super-Mare, Dr Kelly was actually visiting a fellow weapons inspector in Swindon just 20 miles from their home apparently unaccompanied by his wife?
Did you know that when a helicopter equipped with heat-seeking equipment searched the area where Dr Kelly’s body was discovered several hours later, it found no trace of him?
Did you know that Dr Kelly’s dental records disappeared on the day he was reported missing, but had been returned with unidentified fingerprints to his dentist’s files 48 hours later?
Did you know that much of the material supplied to the Inquiry was quietly sealed at Lord Hutton’s request for 70 years?
Did you know that a certificate with the alleged causes of Dr Kelly’s death, but without its location, was issued five weeks before Hutton completed his Inquiry hearings?
Did you know that Dr Kelly’s right arm, alleged to have held the penknife with which he fatally slashed his left wrist, was so weak after a riding accident that he couldn’t use it to cut a steak or push open a heavy door?
Did you know that there were no fingerprints on that knife – one never produced at the Hutton Inquiry and whose effectiveness for the purpose was never established – or on the spectacles, watch, wallet and water bottle found near Dr Kelly’s body?
Did you know that, after allegedly swallowing 29 Coproxamol painkiller tablets, the arms inspector carefully replaced the almost empty blister packs in his coat pocket?
Did you know that more than 20 people with important information on Dr Kelly, including police officers and many of their interviewees, were not called as witnesses by Lord Hutton?
Did you know that the Conservative Attorney General from 2011, who refused a request by medical experts and his former party leader for a full inquest, is now the chairman of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee?
Did you know that Dr Kelly, smeared as a ‘Walter Mitty character’ by No 10 official Tom Kelly in its 2003 Iraq war dispute with the BBC, was one of the world’s leading experts on biological warfare?
Did you know that this Downing Street spokesman was promptly promoted?
Did you know that at a 2006 Labour Party fundraising evening a copy of the Hutton report, autographed by Cherie Blair and Alastair Campbell, raised £400 for the constituency of Labour Cabinet minister and now senior BBC executive James Purnell?
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