Drug expert told police Iraq whistleblower David Kelly was ‘murdered’

By Stephen C. Webster
Saturday, November 13, 2010 14:25 EST
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The death of Dr. David Kelly, a former weapons inspector in Iraq, was “murder” and not suicide, according to a drug expert who spoke with British authorities during the ensuing investigation.

Dr. Andrew Watt, quoted prominently in the Saturday edition of Britain’s Mail Online, is attributed as “an experienced clinical pharmacologist” who reportedly spoke to authorities after Dr. Kelly’s death and assurred them it was not due in part to an overdose, which was later cited as one of the causes.

“I reported to the Thames force that I believe that the death of Dr Kelly may have been murder,” he reportedly said. “I have received an acknowledgement and they have given me an incident number. I have been told that the inquiry is being conducted by a very senior officer.”

Dr. David Kelly was found dead in a field near his home in Oxfordshire in 2003, shortly after he was revealed to be the source of a BBC leak that accused Tony Blair’s government of exaggerating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. His death prompted suspicions among many that he may have been killed in retaliation for the leak.

Kelly himself had predicted he would be “found dead in the woods” if the UK invaded Iraq.

However, the Mail’s report also notes that Kelly placed a phone call to a friend days before his alleged suicide, but the message he left was not examined by investigators. In it, he allegedly sounded upbeat, telling his friend that he’d see him on Wednesday night for a game of pub cribbage.

He was officially ruled to have bled to death from a wound on his left wrist, aided by an overdose of coproxamol tablets and undiagnosed coronary artery disease.

Last year, a team of 13 doctors challenged the finding, insisting that he could not have bled to death from a wound of that size. This was apparently confirmed in August, when the detective who found Kelly’s body revealed that there “wasn’t much blood about” the scene. The doctors added that the amount of painkiller in his system was not nearly enough to kill him.

There is also controversy over whether Kelly’s body was moved to a different location after it was discovered. A paramedic who was at the scene said last month that the body had “obviously” been moved, which would have explained why there was so little blood at the scene, as at least two witnesses claim.

“I’ve seen more blood at a nosebleed than I saw there,” the paramedic said.

“I think it is highly likely he was assassinated,” remarked one of the doctors who penned the challenge, speaking to The Telegraph.

With additional reporting by Daniel Tencer.

Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster
Stephen C. Webster is the senior editor of Raw Story, and is based out of Austin, Texas. He previously worked as the associate editor of The Lone Star Iconoclast in Crawford, Texas, where he covered state politics and the peace movement’s resurgence at the start of the Iraq war. Webster has also contributed to publications such as True/Slant, Austin Monthly, The Dallas Business Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Weekly, The News Connection and others. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenCWebster.
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  • Anonymous

    Of course he was murdered, he knew the truth, and the neocon madmen cannot let the truth of their crimes be known.

  • Anonymous

    he was a threat to profitability. he had to go. plain and simple. they had a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders. who is he to stand in the way of that?

  • Anonymous

    Thanks, but those paying attention realize this, just as those recently planted stories about the feebs (so-called F.B.I.) investigation into Senator Wellstone’s crash neglected to mention that last-minute replacement pilot, instead of his usual pilot.

    And what was unusual about that replacement pilot? His association with alleged “20th hijacker” named Zacarias Moussaoui, having given him his Flight Simulator software, and met with him a number of times.

    Also, that he was a reservist in US Army intel, and one might suspect asked to take a package aboard to be transported elsewhere, not knowing it would conveniently explode.

    Negative, we know who “they” are and know where to find them.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe, just maybe, this is what was needed to open that repugnant can of worms that was the blair/bush love affair.
    I can but hope.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Martin/100000564476826 Gregory Martin

    It really didn’t matter to the neocons how many lives were destroyed, they thought they’d walk right in, steal the oil, frighten the enemies of Israel and become the kings of the world. What happened? Like all of the rest of their shit plans, it all fell to bits, creating a war of insurgency that bred US hatred by an order of multitude, destroyed the counter balance to Iran and initiated the freefall decline of the American Empire. Job well done guys! How many of you are still telling yourselves that murdering Kelly was for the greater good?

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  • Anonymous

    Don’t step in between neocons and their ill-gotten loot. They’re like rabid wolves when it comes to money. They’ll do anything to get their hands on a new source of revenue, like starting illegal wars against countries with oil and some with poppy plants and the killing of millions of innocent civilians as well as tens of thousands of US troops in a quest to quench their never ending hunger for money.

    One more death is but a bump on the road to these money-loving savages, who would kill their own grandmothers if they knew it would make extra cash.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/K2PHXJ2SVTZOHLQFOKQOWVT7MQ ByBull

    2009 (57th Annual NPB) Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the UK…

    With these folks it’s OK to be Muslim as long as you acknowledge Jeebus…
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Prayer_Breakfast

    They’re Dominionist and they’re seeing too it that everyone else is… or else. The concept is “Jesus plus nothing”[ http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/07/18/undercover-among-america-s-secret-theocr ]… It’s like Hitler’s purity ideology, only not on such a “Fast-Track”.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYeGR7O1lKI & http://home.conservativebabylon.com/c-street-the-family-the-fellowship/

  • Anonymous

    And in other cover up news. Randi Rhodes has pointed out the suspicious death of the owner of a little known magazine in Florida is the ONLY non-postal worker to have died from the US anthrax hoax. What was his connection to the War cover up? None. It has been alleged by an escort who claimed to be in the room where W and another MAN engaged in sexual contact that the owner of the magazine had a negative of the picture the escort took of the incident.
    After the publishers death the building was quarantined and a company controlled by Rudy Giuliani was assigned control. Just another story that the MSM is too timid to pursue.
    They don’t even have the guts to put Sibel Edmonds account of the cover up of TREASON that is now “on the record” as part of a law suit.

  • Anonymous

    Unanswered questions remain concerning the death of David Kelly in addition to those mentioned in this article.

    For some of them see here – http://tinyurl.com/2ueacmj

    And there was huge fallout at the BBC with heads dispatched. The BBC has not been the same since.

  • Anonymous

    why would they seal the records for 75 years?

  • Anonymous

    It’s about damn time the media reports those experts who analyze the evidence and facts rather than just dumping the officially sanctioned myth on our doorstep like some robot dump truck from the government.

  • David R Velasquez

    I’ve always believed that the Hutton Inquiry was a Blair gov’t coverup.
    The Downing Street Papers also proved that Andrew Gilligan’s report had more truth to it than was reported. And that Dr Kelly lied out of fear… and paid for it anyway.
    The BBC News department went through changes that brought it more firmly under gov’t control.

  • Anonymous

    Duh! Those who paid attention then knew it then.

  • Anonymous

    2000 through 2008 – eight years of US and British government malfeasance, a veritable septic tank of corruption just waiting to be uncovered. Are there any real journalists left out there willing to get their hands dirty?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/L5PHKRPFHK3LLTRDNVH2ZBIWOA Cal

    No amount of whitewashing or reinvestigations will ever make me believe this man commited suicide.

  • Anonymous

    In the turmoil occurring at the end of the French Fourth Republic, it was reported that a union activist was found run over by a train with his hands and feet bound and it was ruled a suicide.

  • Anonymous

    I recall at the time thinking that if this was a suicide, it was an attempt to bring the world spotlight on a bogus war with Iraq.

    If the various investigations going on–and should be going on–were to actually proceed transparently, we just might have hope for a change in the course of humanity.

  • LeftCoastLeftie

    Were Karl Rove and Dick Cheney around?

  • Anonymous

    The proof will be released in 2014 when we learn of Cheney’s assassinate squad. Dr. Kelly would have ended UK’s help in the illegal invasion of Iraq if he had lived to testify. Blair/Bush knew this and Cheney took care of the problem. Victims of the Cheney assassination squad to witnessed many of the killings along with the one done to Pat Tillman have already spoken up but the US press and some in the UK refuse to report it. The BBC had one of those who witnessed the murder but the BBC was told not to continue on that topic. Many Americans think the thought of the US or a Vice President doing something like that is impossible because well we’re America. Well history has shown Republicans led by Prescott Bush attempted to assassinations on FDR and fail, the success of the assassination of JFK in Dallas was also covered up. Torture and conviction was already done by a Military Officier during the Korean War, but of couse he was given a light sentence and after 6 months of house arrest he was freed. The US is the only country to use the Atom Bomb and killed thousands of innocent people. When reports of horror and human rights violations are reported about other countries it would be wise to check the US out first. We tell the World we learned from our mistakes and want others to follow our lead but after the War Crimes and Human Rights Violations done by the Bush Administration don’t look for anyone to trust the word of the United States of America anytime soon.

  • Anonymous

    What always amazes me is how my fellow human beings, even after finally being convinced of the conspiracy to murder tens of thousands of human beings in Iraq , can be so resistant to accept similar conclusions when it comes to individuals like David Kelly. If they’re willing to kill thousands in Iraq, they’re surely willing to kill one in Britain.

  • I. M. Agoste

    If you don’t get it by now you never will. Many who would have talked have been silenced (read killed, marginalized) in the GWOT and this country just rolled over for another nap. I hold no hope that Bush and his enablers will be held accountable. Heh. Obama just wants this swept under the rug, says he’d rather look forward. Is he afraid of the Dogs of War?

  • Anonymous

    It was Dick Cheney with the candlestick in the library.

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  • Anonymous

    The BBC hasn’t been the same since they reported the collapse of WTC 7 twenty minutes before it happened.

  • Anonymous

    MORE PROOF OF CRIMINALS RUNNING THE PLANET!

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  • Anonymous

    That too – I have wondered if that little mistake was actually deliberate. Some one with high ethics trying to let reality through.

  • Anonymous

    Just like Tillman.

  • Anonymous

    The MI5 took out David Kelly…and the CIA took out Senator Wellstone, both the further those countries war interests.

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    More than highly likely…Kelly, like others who have angered very powerful people, flat out warned others that he might be a target for assassination. It’s still astonishing that when a person who is not suicidal, is embroiled in politically sensitive issues, and warns others that they have targeted for murder…suddenly dies under questionable circumstances…everyone nods sagely and accepts that it was probably an accident.

  • mick

    Fuck who didn’t know this shit …it fucks me off how stupid we are assumed to be …yea most are oblivious to the truth but some of us “get it”.

  • Anonymous

    The only questions worth asking are:-
    1/ From which intelligence agency, MI5 or the CIA did the hit squad that whacked Dr Kelly come?
    2/ Was Kelly killed as punishment for discrediting the WMD dossier or from fear that he might leak other unpleasant secrets to which he was privy?
    3/ From how high in the Governments of the UK or the USA did the order to terminate with extrem prejudice come, Tony Blair or George W Bush or someone lower in the hierarchy?

  • panamarick

    Ah yes, the rich history of unsolved, high profile murder in the political realm. Well, maybe it was a magic knife that killed him. Oh well…at least their talking about it; better late than never I suppose. Funny how insiders like this guy and oh, I don’t know say the anthrax guy Bruce Ivins and the alike always seem to have a suicidal tendency.

  • Anonymous

    We have known he was murdered since it happened. This is the real world … Anyone who dared to interfere with the global elites fake reasons for illegally invading Iraq was either sidelined or killed. Blair, Bush, Cheney they are international war criminals. Their crimes constitute high crimes against humanity. But these installed officials only facilitated and carried out the orders they were given. The CIA , MI6 … They do not work to secure the people from harm. No. They are inplace to insure that the financial interests of the elite are secure. Theses shadow elite are at the top of the world crime syndicate and are guilty of mass murder. They steal, murder, and start wars, using propaganda and fanning the flames of fear and nationalism just as they have done for centuries. Sometimes in their arrogance they get messy and the facts get through the smoke screen they create.

  • Anonymous

    Thing is they will never let the truth become reality. And even if it did nobody will ever be arrested for it … At least not the real criminals. They are good at covering their tracks with suicides and smokescreens … For example the anthrax killings. The real facts were leading directily to weaponized anthrax which meant it was military grade only certian people had access to. The anthrax plot was carried out as a false flag opp to seal the deal on the patriot act so it would pass. So they pinned it on a guy who ….. wiggled out of their fake investigation and was vindicated … So they killed a guy called it suicide and called the case shut. There is a crime syndicate run at the highest levels of government and their muscle is the CIA. The good guys get a bullet the second they become too powerful or when too many people listen to what they have to say. They love Glen Beck because he is a non stop broken record of pure lunacy. They love lunacy because it is the best cover up for what amounts to daily crimes against us all.

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  • Anonymous

    Just goes to prove, you can die of anything reason the government thinks up.

  • Anonymous

    Some of us already knew this at the time it happened.

  • Anonymous

    Eventually – just like in the Dubai murder of a prominent Palestinian resister (aka “terrorist”), and the bulldozer death of American Rachel Corey, the Israeli’s will be linked to the assassination of Dr. David Kelly.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/K2PHXJ2SVTZOHLQFOKQOWVT7MQ ByBull

    “Just like Tillman”… Bill Maher interviews Richard Tillman 2010

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huyg8SiDa7k

  • http://3chicspolitico.com/ SouthernGirl2

    You can bet Cheney was somewhere in the middle of it.

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  • Spiffarino

    How many times can one say, “Duh”?

  • Anonymous

    Did ANYONE really believe it was a suicide?

    Everyone I know, from all walks of life, seemed quite certain that it was an assassination attempt. After all, David Kelly potentially stood in the way of what Richard Dearlove (MI6) and Tony Blair had agreed on, as documented in the Downing Street Minutes. They were prepared to “fix the facts around the policy”, the policy of war/invasion/etc was already there, they just needed to feed the propaganda to justify it to the public.

  • Anonymous

    Powerful words surgethis… Unfortunately “they” have been doing this for decades to achieve power. The truth struggled for decades and finally died in the 60s. Since then, the Cabal has been in power. Now they are so powerful, they don’t need to hide in the shadows any longer since no one will prosecute their evil ways.

  • Anonymous

    His two work associates were killed before he was. That was his ‘warning’. Benito Que, 52, was found comatose in the parking lot of the Miami Medical School and Don Wiley, 57, jumped off a Mississippi bridge.

  • Anonymous

    David Kelly potentially stood in the way of what Richard Dearlove (MI6) and Tony Blair had agreed on, as documented in the Downing Street Minutes. They were prepared to “fix the facts around the policy”, the policy of war/invasion/etc was already there, they just needed to disseminate the propaganda to justify it to the public.

    MI6 would seem to have had the greatest motive from what I’ve observed, and the way the murder was made to look like a suicide does strongly suggest it was a termination originating from an intelligence agency… but I don’t think the way most intelligence agencies work when terminating a target is justification for claiming all “suiciding” originates from Mossad.

    Same shit as Jean Deborah Palfrey and the DC escort scandal, the full evidence of which never saw the light of day.

    I guess it’s a warning to everyone that if you’re going to mess with powerful people, do as Julian Assange does and maybe go a step further… make sure you have your vault of evidence stored as encrypted data, distributed to the general public to act as insurance on your own life, backed by an automated dissemination of the decryption key on a delay – so if you’re no longer alive to reset the release mechanism within a given timeframe, all the evidence is unlocked and already in the hands of the general public.

  • Anonymous

    Of course “the inquiry is being conducted by a very senior officer.” How else to keep it under political control?

  • Anonymous

    It is possible that it was not that important to further silence Kelly… after all, he’d said his bit already–damage done. It could be more important to as a message to others.

    Just noting possible strategic motives. What really does or does not go on with MI5, 6, various alphabet soup agencies is something I’m totally ignorant of, outside fiction and various web sites. I think one needs be inside to have some certainty outside mere speculation. But IF they do that sort of thing, “a warning” seems the best reason because what else did Kelly have to say? Nothing really, he’d given his views.

    That’s also reason to doubt an assassination. He’d said what he had to say.

  • Anonymous

    I never considered that. We can hope.

  • Anonymous

    They should have asked me. My statedment would have been that I do not “believe” he was murdered, I “know” he was murdered from the reporting done about his death for five years now.

  • Mede

    They were 10 and 17, respectively, at the end of the 4th Republic.

  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    Bush Family Poodle Blair

    look at 9/11
    look at 7/7

  • ladygeek

    Even though I think that 9/11 was an inside job. There is no reason to speculate that Zacarias Moussaoui had a relationship with Richard Conry (the pilot). Wellstone frequently requested Conry as a pilot on the charter planes he used from Aviation Charter Inc. of Eden Prairie, MN. I don’t know where you got that information since it is so different from what everyone has written or reported on that plane crash. It is true that Wellstone was an irritant to Poppy Bush and in fact, when they met for the 1st time at a White House event where newly elected congressional representatives met with Poppy. I remember that at the time, Poppy was asking around: “who is that pip-squeak?” Wellstone also had a discussion with Cheney after he voted against the Iraq war where Cheney said to Wellstone “If you vote against the war in Iraq, the Bush administration will do whatever is necessary to get you. There will be severe ramifications for you and the state of Minnesota.” That seems like a smoking gun to me and other liberals who live here in MN and some of us are concerned that Al Franken may face the same treatment.

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    me like southern girls, too!

  • http://www.windstonemusic.com hourglass1

    yes, there are ‘real journalists’ out there. do you support them? the corporate media doesn’t and won’t, so whatever a ‘real journalist’ uncovers and writes up is ignored by the masses or ridiculed by those with the microphones.

  • Mede

    The Tallahatchie Bridge?

  • Anonymous

    bUsh is a glove puppet silly! Blair, a lost school boy with soiled underwear, looking for the way home to that Dali painting, he’d slipped away from!

  • http://3chicspolitico.com/ SouthernGirl2

    …I like guys that like southern girls.

  • Anonymous

    Political murders are not confined to Lebanon, China, or the United States.

  • Anonymous

    He was probably in charge of killing off key 9/11 witnesses too, like Barry Jennings and Jean Palfrey.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you!

  • Anonymous

    So, as expected it WAS murder.

    Now, just ask:

    cui bono cui bono cui bono
    cui bono cui bono cui bono
    ??????????????????????

  • Anonymous

    So, as expected it WAS murder.

    Now, just ask:

    cui bono cui bono cui bono
    cui bono cui bono cui bono
    ??????????????????????

  • Anonymous

    When we were saying “give peace a chance”, they were saying “no way in hell.”

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  • Anonymous

    My apologies for not being specific enough, I was NOT referring to Mr. Conry, but to Michael Guess, the co-pilot who was a last-minute substitute.

    All my remarks applied to Guess, not to Mr. Conry.

    I hope that clarifies the matter for you, as evidently you weren’t familiar with Guess’s background?

    I would certainly not worry about Al Franken, as he is about as centrist as one can get and still claim to be a democrat, and Franken is certainly not of the stature nor honr of Sen. Wellstone.

    Franken has pretty much already pissed away his time in the senate, going to bat for that unfortunate neocon female who was gangraped when she decided to work for a mercenary group (KBR) in the middle of a combat zone (Iraq) on the side of the illegal and illegitimate invaders.

    Likewise, Franken has long been a close friend of that stealthy rightwing tool, Oliphant, the faux newsy.

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