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seriousstan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 08:49 AM
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Official: Diana's death 'simply an accident'
The Official inquiry into the death of Princess Diana will conclude that she died in a simple car crash.
Britain's former top policeman is to state publicly for the first time that he believes Diana was killed in an accident.

The Daily Mail can reveal that following a two-year investigation, Lord Stevens plans to release an interim report saying there is no evidence she was killed unlawfully.

His findings undermine the many conspiracy theories surrounding the 1997 car crash in a Paris underpass.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=379009&in_page_id=1770
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gordianot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 08:56 AM
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Travel at high speed through a tunnel with a drunk driver and Paparazzi.
Do they have traffic laws in France?
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 09:26 AM
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7. Spend a month as a pedestrian in Paris
That would be an excellent way to find the answer to your question, assuming you survived.
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 09:31 AM
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8. On my first car ride through Paris I didn't understand how there weren't
dead pedestrians in every intersection and crashed cars in every open space...

It's controlled chaos, it's almost brilliant! Now it's just great fun though, and accidents are actually rather rare. The Parisi drivers are very conscientious, believe it or not, and getting a license to drive in France is very rigorous.
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Scairp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 01:45 PM
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19. I felt that way about Dublin
If you want to take your life into your hands, just get into a taxi and ride around Dublin on a Friday night. Or any time of the day or night. It's crazy.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 12:07 PM
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15. And no seat belts -- the only person who lived was the only
person wearing one.
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Scairp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 01:48 PM
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20. Exactly
And her injuries were just the kind a seltbelt would have prevented and most likely saved her life. The guy in the front lived and that part of the car was nearly disintegrated. The back was pretty much intact. It's just a tragedy, nothing more.
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 08:56 AM
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1.  Princess Diana's death probably was caused by
a simple car crash.

Unfortunately when it comes to telling the truth, the British government has about as much credibility as an American election.

The conspiracy theories shall continue unabated.
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 09:01 AM
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2. History would have been so different if she'd just worn a seatbelt.
What a world, what a world.
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hang a left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 09:07 AM
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4. I remember that night vividly...
I was on my way to taking my kids to a carnival. Before I left it was being reported she was OK and was talking, and she was going to the hospital to be checked out. When I got home it was reported that she had died. I do think she was murdered. There are people that know the truth. Unfortunately, the public never will.
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adriennui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 03:00 PM
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22. history wouldn't be a bit different..
she really was rather irrelevant except to her children and family.
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seriousstan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 09:02 AM
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3. Don't they regardless?
People still believe in the "face on Mars" no matter how many flybys and photos.
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slaveplanet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 10:17 AM
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11. Yes - just like the Nazi's
Edited on Mon Mar-06-06 10:43 AM by slaveplanet
the theories will never really go away.

I'll have to dig up that old article of how Lord Stevens office had a recent unexplained break-in.
His tune seemed different before that...

and now,In other breaking news...

Prince Philip pictured at Nazi funeral

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=379036&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=&ct=5

by ANDREW LEVY, Daily Mail

08:52am 6th March 2006

Prince Philip has broken a 60-year public silence about his family's links with the Nazis.
In a frank interview, he said they found Hitler's attempts to restore Germany's power and prestige 'attractive' and admitted they had 'inhibitions about the Jews'.

The revelations come in a book about German royalty kowtowing to the Nazis, which features photographs never published in the UK.

They include one of Philip aged 16 at the 1937 funeral of his elder sister Cecile, flanked by relatives in SS and Brownshirt uniforms.

One row back in the cortege in Darmstadt, western Germany, was his uncle, Lord Mountbatten, wearing a Royal Navy bicorn hat.

Another picture shows his youngest sister, Sophia, sitting opposite Hitler at the wedding of Hermann and Emmy Goering.

Explaining the attraction of the Nazis, 84-year-old Prince Philip told an American academic: "There was a great improvement in things like trains running on time and building. There was a sense of hope after the depressing chaos of the Weimar Republic.

"I can understand people latching on to something or somebody who appeared to be appealing to their patriotism and trying to get things going. You can understand how attractive it was."



Philip was born Prince of Greece and Denmark on Corfu in 1921, the youngest of five children and the only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg. All four of his sisters married German princes and three - Sophie, Cecile and Margarita - became members of the Nazi party.

Sophia's husband, Prince Christoph of Hesse, became chief of Goering's secret intelligence service and they were frequent guests at Nazi functions.



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hang a left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 10:53 AM
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12. OMG
That graph is frightening. Do you have links to more information? I would surely appreciate it.
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slaveplanet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 11:55 AM
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13. Why yes I do

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0603/S00079.htm


UQ Wire: Port Deal Pales In Comparison To Ptech
Monday, 6 March 2006, 2:06 pm
Article: www.UnansweredQuestions.org
Distribution via the Unanswered Questions Wire
http://www.unansweredquestions.org/ .

Port deal is nothing compared to Ptech -- US computer infrastructure compromised by terrorist-owned company; Cheney 'friends' with owner

By Patrick Devlin Buckley

While Congress and the media focus on the potential dangers of a UAE-owned company running American port operations, any possible threat is dwarfed by the current insecurity of the US government's computer infrastructure, which has been compromised by a company with multiple connections to terrorist financing.

The company, once known as Ptech (now GoAgile), has been contracted to provide sophisticated computer software to several government agencies, including the Army, the Air Force, Naval Air Command, Congress, the Department of Energy, the Department of Justice, Customs, the FAA, the IRS, NATO, the FBI, the Secret Service, and the White House.

Shortly after 9/11, the company's primary investor, Yassin al-Qadi (al-Kadi), was identified by the US government as a specially designated global terrorist. Officials describe al-Qadi as one of Osama bin Laden's "chief money launderers," and say he transferred as much as $3 billion to al-Qaeda during the 1990s.

Al-Qadi is a wealthy Saudi with connections to banking, diamonds, chemicals, construction, transportation, and real estate. He once headed Muwafaq, an Islamic charity the US Treasury Department described as an "al Qaeda front that receives funding from wealthy Saudi businessmen."

Al-Qadi also maintained an unusually close relationship with notable US politicians. While attempting to defend Ptech, the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Massachusetts (ADCMA) revealed the fact that al-Qadi "was prominent in Washington circles and even showed President Jimmy Carter and Dick Cheney around during their visits to Saudi Arabia."
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slaveplanet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 12:00 PM
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14. more
from article-

There are indications that al-Qadi, Alamoudi, and other suspected terrorists were protected from prosecution by high-ranking US officials, effectively preventing the FBI from stopping 9/11.

FBI Agent Robert Wright, who was in charge of pursuing al-Qadi and his associates during the 1990s, said the FBI "intentionally and repeatedly thwarted and obstructed" his attempts to arrest terrorists, seize assets, and expand his investigation into the financial network of which al-Qadi was a part.

After his investigation into al-Qadi was shut down entirely in 1999, Wright completed a manuscript, entitled "Fatal Betrayals of the Intelligence Mission," which, he said, "outlines, in very specific detail, what I believe allowed September 11th to happen." The government has banned the manuscript from being released.
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hang a left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 01:32 PM
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17. Thanks....
I found the thread in GD. I remember this and have read a few thread regarding Sibel and Indhira and PTech. I just forget this stuff and need to be reminded. I wish my brain would work like it used to.
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 12:21 PM
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16. Thanks for the graph, it's more insightful then just written descriptions
Would you start a seperate thread for it?
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 09:24 AM
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5. And no one in Britain will explain the blinding light that has been
attested to?

I'd believe what a shaman in the highlands of New Guinea has to say about how she died before I'd believe the British. That's what the 'war' has done to my faith in words coming from the upper crusts of the British.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 09:25 AM
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6. What blinding light? Gee, the blinding light is a conspiracy
theory, not an actual fact.
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 10:03 AM
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10. The news coming out of France last week is that they are still
investigating it (and leaning towards it?)
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 01:44 PM
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18. Well, the guy who was driving was an undercover agent with the state
security guys, the French equivalent of the CIA. Do you suppose they are in the habit of hiring drug-addled drunks as a routine?? Amazing, how lucky they've been in that case....with that calibre of agents, it's a miracle they have managed to avoid being entangled in messy, costly wars!

I have no idea what the truth is here, I just find that small but important fact rather curious, when looking at the big picture.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 03:46 PM
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24. A British friend said the driver could have been drugged.
She had many questions about the crash. And some interesting gossip about the Royal Family.

(Not that I have any strong opinions about the situation.)
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 03:52 PM
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25. Yep, I'm in the same boat
It does seem fishy, but the likelihood of finding out is slim...though Muhamed Al-Fayed is determined, and he has deep pockets. If anything comes to light, it will be due to his judicious use of bribes and influence.
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 09:50 AM
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9. If we learned anything from her death...it's that she probably would...
...have lived had she been wearing her seatbelt.

Buckle up, friends! :)
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 01:52 PM
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21. My friend and I drove the L'Toile sober
a couple times around, now THAT was a trip! No drugs needed!!
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High Plains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 03:43 PM
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23. Who gives a rat's ass?
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