Conspiracy theories fueled by Diana inquest

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Princess Diana

LONDON -- While British intelligence chiefs -- and their counterparts in Paris and Washington -- are understandably relieved the jury verdict into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi al-Fayed was unlawful killing by their driver, Henri Paul, and the paparazzi who pursued the couple before the fatal crash in the Alma underpass in Paris in August 1997, the chiefs fear that Lord Justice Baker, the coroner, has left the door open for the conspiracy theorists to flourish, according to Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

Hours after he announced the verdict of unlawful killing, the equivalent to manslaughter in a criminal case, the first poll -- conducted by the flagship BBC program "Newsnight" -- revealed that a third of Britons still believe there is "something suspicious about their deaths."

At the outset of the six-month-long inquest, Lord Baker had promised to "leave no stone unturned" to uncover the truth "and nothing but the truth."

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While 250 witnesses stood before him in Court 73 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London for varying lengths of time to testify, there were others who were either prepared to give evidence and not called -- or refused to appear. Or, perhaps more significantly, were stopped from doing so. The reasons why were never pursued by Lord Justice Baker.

The result is the still unsolved mystery of the 1,050 surveillance tapes that the American National Security Agency, the world's most powerful satellite surveillance agency, continue to hold in an air conditioned vault beneath its headquarters, Fort George Meade, in the Maryland countryside outside Washington.

While the NSA has reluctantly admitted the tapes were made in the closing weeks of Diana and Dodi's life together on board the Jonikal, the al-Fayed yacht, and "elsewhere." the NSA has steadfastly refused to release them on the grounds of "national security."

Lord Justice Baker did not once during the 88 days of the inquest demand to know how "national security" was involved. He did not send for the American ambassador in London and ask him to inquire of Washington. Or ask MI6's chief, John Scarlett -- who has close connections with the NSA -- to find out.

Instead, the tapes still nourish the conspiracy theorists.

There is also the matter of Mossad. Days after the couple died, Ari Ben-Menashe, a former national security adviser to the Israeli government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, publicly claimed:

"Mossad were in Paris on the night the couple died to try and recruit Henri Paul to be their informer inside the Ritz Hotel. Mossad believed the hotel was being used by arms dealers and Arab gun-runners to buy and sell weapons to strike against Israel."

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