Former MP Charges Dr. David Kelly Was Murdered

APRIL 22, (EIRNS)--Norman Baker, a former British Liberal Democratic Party front-bencher, has charged, in a recent series of public events and interviews, that top British weapons scientist Dr. David Kelly was murdered, and did not die as the result of a suicide. Baker resigned from his parliamentary seat in Feb. 2006 to devote himself full-time to investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Kelly in the summer of 2003. Kelly had revealed to BBC that the Blair government had "sexed up" the dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to get both the United States and Britain into a preemptive war against Iraq to overthrow the Saddam Hussein regime. When his name came out in public as the BBC source, and he was hauled before the House of Commons and grilled by pro-war MPs, he ostensibly took his own life.

However Baker, among others, seriously questioned to basis for the suicide verdict, and sharply criticized the Hutton Commission, an official government inquest into Dr. Kelly's death, that whitewashed the Blair government, and provoked a major shakeup at BBC. The death of Dr. Kelly formed an important part of the chronology of events around the Jeremiah Duggan case and the launching of a massive media slander campaign from London against Lyndon LaRouche, carried out by the British Fabian friends of Tony Blair and U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney.

After one year of investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. David Kelly, former MP Baker appeared on Feb. 25, 2007 on the BBC-Two show, The Conspiracy Files , and spelled out his case disproving the death was by suicide.

On April 11, 2007, Baker held a public forum in his former parliamentary district, in Lewes on the southeast English coast, and further elaborated on the reasons that the suicide findings were false.

Among Baker's criticisms is the fact that Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, ordered Coroner Nicholas Gardiner to halt his forensic investigation, and turn over the further probe to the Hutton Commission. At the time of the decision by Lord Falconer, his top political adviser was none other than Phil Bassett, the onetime Blair aide and central player in the "sexed up dossier" affair, who also happens to be the husband of Baroness Liz Symons, an early pivotal player in the Duggan slander scheme targeting LaRouche.

This a news breaking story, and will be updated regularly, as further details emerge.