Fayed conspiracy claim collapses

[Anarcho-Socialist]

Source: BBC

For more than 10 years Mohamed Al Fayed has been utterly convinced the events in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris were deliberately engineered by agents of the British state whose purpose was to prevent Diana, Princess of Wales, from marrying a Muslim, his son Dodi.

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But by the time Mr Al Fayed left the witness box in Court 73 at the Royal Courts of Justice on 18 February, the list of supposed conspirators had reached astonishing proportions - so astonishing, really, that the "conspiracy" appeared to have lost any connection with reality.

By the end of that day Mr Al Fayed had named the following as conspirators: the princess's former husband, the Prince of Wales; the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair; two former commissioners of the Metropolitan Police, Paul Condon and John Stevens; the Queen's former private secretary Lord Fellowes and the former British ambassador to Paris, Lord Jay. But that was not all. According to Mr Al Fayed, Diana's elder sister Lady Sarah McCorquodale had been part of the cover-up. The Al Fayed bodyguard Trevor Rees who was severely injured in the crash had been described as a "crook" who had also, according to Mr Al Fayed, been part of the conspiracy.

Similar accusations had been levelled against the intelligence services of Britain, France and the United States, together with the French emergency, medical and judicial authorities. All - according to Mohamed Al Fayed - had been part of the plot to carry out, or cover up, multiple murder.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7326311.stm

[Demeter]

We Will Probably Never Know

and soon, we won't care, either. The grief, however, will not go away, and nobody will be made whole.

[Happyhippychick]

1. Everytime I read something about Dodi's father I want to cry. I feel so bad for the guy.

He adored his son beyond all measure and he is desperate for answers. I can understand how he feels.

[JeanGrey]

2. Much like the 9/11 "truthers". Diana would be alive today

if her driver wasn't drunk and speeding, and wasn't running from the papparazzi who should not have been chasing her. End of story. Not to mention they had no seat belts on. Real smart.

[BadScooter]

3. Investigation

At least they investigated Diana's case...

[JeanGrey]

4. Are you saying 9/11 wasn't investigated?

[Dogtown]

5. En Re: 9/11

What version are you shilling?

[JeanGrey]

7. The truth. There was no conspiracy on 9/11, no bombs,

etc.

[Dogtown]

8. OH!!! The truth!

I wish I was privy to the truth. A mere pleb, I can not feel so secure.

Since I have no inside information I shall make no pronouncements. Perhaps the (actual) truth will out in the fullness of time. I believe that any guesses will be somewhat off the mark, but in the meantime I think I'll suspect everything these mammyjammers do or say, and incidentally, any founts of pure truth that do make proclamation.



Back to point, Dianna's death was a (welcome) accident (to the Royals, that is. The SAS is not as ludicrously clumsy as our special operatives).



Interesting nick; so you've phoenix-like qualities?

[JeanGrey]

9. Nothing else will "come out in time". We already know.

If you choose not to believe it, that's fine, to each their own. Yes Diana's death was an accident - pure and simple.

[Dogtown]

10. JG

I don't choose to believe anything; that's my point. I can't KNOW, so I'll not make pretence of authority.

I do tend to distrust prophets; welded to a single POV. Salesman sell.


For the nonce...

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Sad thing is that he's still claiming a conspiracy

The jury's verdict blames the "grossly negligent driving of the following vehicles and of the Mercedes", and al Fayed is trying to claim that 'the following vehicles' means more than the paparazzi. And after all the time he was defending his employee, Henri Paul, he's now claiming that putting the blame on him actually proves the police investigations wrong (they said 'accident') and al Fayed himself right! And he's calling it 'murder', but that wouldn't be what gross negligence would mean.

He said he was "disappointed" by the verdict but insisted as he left court: "The most important thing is, it is murder."

Separately, in a statement read by his spokeswoman, Al Fayed said: "I'm not the only person who says they were murdered. Diana predicted that she would be murdered and how it would happen.
...
"The jury have found that it wasn't just the paparazzi who caused the crash, but unidentified following vehicles. Who they are and what they were doing in Paris is still a mystery."

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gjfzj2cMuOxy2mAtTcBpH2fJzHUQ

At best, he's slightly deranged by grief. Or he's just a habitual liar, who will never admit he was wrong. His business dealing do point to the latter.