Yet another conspiracy theory...

Melanie Phillips has become a Kelly death conspiracy theorist:

Having first accepted that Dr Kelly had committed suicide, I came increasingly to believe that he had been killed.

She speculates that it might have been the Iraqi intelligence services or our spooks. But I think she's missed out one obvious suspect.

What about the BBC?

Melanie has missed the real story. Some believe the BBC knew about 9/11 before it happened.

And if you think about it, it was the Corporation who had the most to gain from Dr Kelly's silence. Perhaps the notorious BBC black bag unit was involved.

I am just saying we shouldn't rule it out.

Comments

[Stewart Cowan]

Mr Finkelstein, this is a massive subject that the controlled/cowardly mainstream media will not touch. At least you mentioned it. The very fact that BBC World lost their recordings from 9/11, probably the biggest day for news since at least WWII, is ridiculous and newsworthy enough (so why the media blackout?), but that the video recovered from archive.org shows the BBC’s Jane Standley reporting that Building 7 (Salomon Brothers Building) had collapsed while it is standing behind her the whole time should have turned this into a major news story.

Just to put this in perspective, many of us who believe there is a conspiracy (personally I must have spent hundreds of hours studying the evidence) cite Building 7 as the biggest smoking gun. For the third time in one day, a huge building collapsed like it was deliberately demolished, but WTC7 was not hit by a plane (not that that is a likely explanation for two of the world’s largest buildings becoming pulverised as they had been designed to withstand such events). Yes, Building 7 sustained some damage from the falling towers and yes there were fires in it, but when was the last time a building behaved just like a controlled demolition without it actually being a controlled demolition? How is the uniform collapse at freefall speed of a 47-storey building possible without each of the columns being blown first?

Well, even US Government investigators, NIST, are considering the explosive angle, “NIST also is considering whether hypothetical blast events could have played a role in initiating the collapse.” http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm (very last paragraph).

An important additional fact is that WTC7 was designed so that whole floors could be removed should future tenants need high ceilings without affecting the building’s integrity. It was also home to the spooks who probably took part in any conspiracy. Offices of the CIA, Secret Service and Rudolf Giuliani’s emergency command centre were all destroyed – and any evidence. Perhaps this was just another coincidence?

We now have televised proof that the BBC was somehow given advance information. They flashed this message on the screen some twenty minutes early “The 47 story Salomon Brothers building close to the World Trade Centre has also collapsed.”

Richard Porter, Head of News at BBC World, wrote this in defence of the missing recordings and the “conspiracy” angle,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/02/part_of_the_conspiracy.html but 95% of comments reject his weak explanation.

I am not suggesting for a minute that the BBC is part of the conspiracy to murder thousands, but clearly they were given the advance collapse story by some other agency. What we want to know is who was it! If the mass media were truly free and independent, they could not be restrained from exposing this story. Who are they covering up for and why? Mass murder on an unbelievable scale happened on 11th September 2001 and it spawned wars in which hundreds of thousands have been killed. No stone should be left unturned by the media in an alleged free country to seek to reveal the truth once and for all.

There is nothing “nutty” about wanting answers to these things; the lunacy is ignoring the evidence and believing that our masters would never do anything to harm us. They lied through their teeth so they could send our troops to oil-rich countries out of nothing more than greed. “The love of money is the root of all evil” and some people will do anything for money, especially those who already have plenty.

[Martin Belam]

Ah, I see any mention of the BBC's involvement in 9/11 immediatly brings the tin-foil hat brigade out to add their comments. *sigh*.