Offer to comfort Kelly widow meets stony silence

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/08/nkell08.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/08/ixnewstop.html

PM's offer to comfort Kelly widow meets stony silence
By Colin Brown
(Filed: 08/02/2004)

Tony Blair faces fresh embarrassment over the death of Dr David Kelly as Downing Street officials admitted last night that Janice Kelly, the widow of the weapons expert, has pointedly failed to reply to a confidential offer by the Prime Minister to meet her.

The Telegraph has learned that Mr Blair wrote to Mrs Kelly in the past fortnight asking to meet her to discuss the Hutton report, which cleared him of all blame in the events leading to Dr Kelly's suicide last July.

Janice Kelly: friends say she 'remains very angry with the MoD'

A senior official at No 10 conceded that Mrs Kelly had so far snubbed Mr Blair's offer. "I have no knowledge of anything happening as a result of this," he said.

Senior ministers said that the Prime Minister had hoped a meeting would help Mrs Kelly and her family to "come to terms" with the death of the 59-year-old scientist.
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Gee, I wonder why?

[Benhurst]

1. Good for Mrs. Kelly. Blair is such an arrogant little turd!

:hurts:

[The Sausage of Death]

2. Of course Blair is an arrogant turd, but...

...what else could you expect from an intellectual socialist?

[FlaGranny]

3. Don't you mean

"what can you expect from a Bush* toady?"

[Kipper58]

5. Tony Blair - a socialist?

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

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7. That snicker was heard out on the coast of the Pacific Ocean

This story is really sad to me. This person that was probably responsible for the death of her husband wants to make amends by offering his presence as representative of the apparatus that is also covering it up :-(

I wonder if there was some way we could send our condolences

[Nlighten1]

4. Never mind the death of your husband Mrs. Kelly...

come and let's talk about this glorious Hutton report. :)

[daleo]

6. Too bad about your husband

Now, let's talk about me.

[AP]

8. Read her testimony to the Hutton commission. She basically dismissed

any notion that this wasn't suicide as ridiculous.

By the way.

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9. So he was also with Unscom and freinds with Scot Ritter

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MOO401A.html
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Was it Suicide or Murder?

There and indications that Dr. David Kelly could have been murdered, possibly by agents of the British or American Government. There are several reasons for thinking this. The first and obvious reason is Kelly predicted it would happen in precisely the way it did.

Remember the famous Kelly statement quoted above: "I will probably be found dead in the woods" after Iraq is invaded. Kelly also refers to ‘dark actors’ playing games in an e-mail shortly before he died.21 Also Kelly, as his wife clearly said, was still capable of anger and rage at being ‘betrayed’ by the Ministry of Defense. Kelly was not the completely depressed, passive broken man some have painted him as. Scott Ritter, who worked with Kelly as part of the UN weapons inspections team in Iraq, has commented on Kelly’s strong character as many others have. Ritter said, "While a gentle man, he had a core of steel in him. I’ve seen him interact with Iraqi governmental officials; there is no give in this man."22

So how to account for the ‘give’ of a seemingly broken man appearing before the television cameras at the parliamentary hearings humbly supporting the Blair/Campbell September, 2002 media spin? First, it’s important to read between the lines. This was just a public show put on by Kelly to release him from the unknown threats made by the Ministry of Defense. Privately in session with MPs, shortly after the televised hearings, Kelly admitted he could have used the term ‘sexier’ with Andrew Gilligan of the BBC when describing the changes the 10 Downing spin doctors required in the Blair September 2002 speech. According to The Weekly Telegram, Kelly also told the MPs during the same "private hearing that he felt it was ‘unwise’ to include in the government’s September dossier the claim that Iraq’s weapons could be ready in 45 minutes."23 Kelly was still the critical thinker, still calling a spade a spade it seems.

And Kelly had precise future plans about which he was very excited. Tom Mangold, a TV journalist and close friend of Dr. Kelly, said that he "was passionately interested in what happens in Iraq."24 And as Richard Hatfield, the Ministry of Defense’s Personnel Director has pointed out, Kelly was being "encouraged to go to Iraq."25 According to Kelly’s friend Professor Alastair Hay (who e-mailed Kelly a week before his death) Kelly said, "He wanted to get back to Baghdad, and some real work."26 So we have a man with a loving wife, three daughters, good friends, a passion to work in Iraq with the US Survey Team and an employer who’s willing to send him to Iraq. Interestingly enough, several months after Kelly’s death, the same US Survey Team reported that they had found no weapons of mass destruction.
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