The mainstream media for the most part has moved on. But there are a few more gleanings to be had, of perhaps the most interesting comes from the Daily Mirror, which labels al-Hilli an extremist on the grounds that he was against the war in Iraq, disapproved of the behaviour of Israel and had doubts over 9/11 – which makes a great deal of the population “extremist”. But the Mirror has the only mainstream mention I can find of the possibility that Mossad carried out the killings. Given Mr al-Hilli’s profession, the fact he is a Shia, the fact he had visited Iran, and the fact that Israel heas been assassinating scientists connected to Iran’s nuclear programme, this has to be a possibility. There are of course other possibilities, but to ignore that one is ludicrous.
Which leads me to the argument of Daily Mail crime reporter, Stephen Wright, that the French police should concentrate on the idea that this was a killing by a random Alpine madman or racist bigot. Perfectly possible, of course, and the anti-Muslim killings in Marseille might be as much a precedent as Mossad killings of scientists. But why the lone madman idea should be the preferred investigation, Mr Wright does not explain. What I did find interesting from a man who has visited many crime scenes are his repeated insinuations that the French authorities are not really trying very hard to find who the killers were, for example:
the crime scene would have been sealed off for a minimum of seven to ten days, to allow detailed forensic searches for DNA, fibres, tyre marks and shoe prints to take place.
Nearby bushes and vegetation would have been searched for any discarded food and cigarette butts left by the killer, not to mention the murder weapon.
But from what I saw at the end of last week, no such searches had taken place and potentially vital evidence could have been missed. House to house inquiries in the local area had yet to be completed and police had not made specific public appeals for information about the crime. No reward had been put up for information about the shootings.
Behind the scenes, what other short cuts have been taken? Have police seized data identifying all mobile phones being used in the vicinity of the murders that day?
The idea that the French authorities – who are quite as capable as any other of solving cases – are not really trying very hard is an interesting one.
Which leads me to this part of a remarkable article from the Daily Telegraph, which if true points us back towards a hit squad and discounts the ides that there was only one gun:
Claims that only one gun was used to kill everybody is likely to be disproved by full ballistics test results which are out in October.
While the 25 spent bullet cartridges found at the scene are all of the same kind, they could in fact have come from a number of weapons of the same make.
This throws up the possibility of a well-equipped, highly-trained gang circling the car and then opening fire.
Both children were left alive by the killers, who had clinically pumped bullets into everybody else, including five into Mr Mollier.
Zainab was found staggering around outside the car by Brett Martin, a British former RAF serviceman who cycled by moments after the attack, but he saw nobody except the schoolgirl.
Her sister, Zeena, was found unscathed and hiding in the car eight hours later.
Both sisters are now back in Britain, and are believed to have been reunited at a secret location near London.
There are of course a number of hit squad options, both governmental and private, which might well involve iraqi or Iranian interests – on both of which the mainstream media have been very happy to speculate while almost unanimously ignoring Israel.
But what interests me is why the Daily Telegraph choose, in the face of all the evidence, to minimise the horrific nature of the attack by stating that “Both children were left alive by the killers”? Zainab was not left alive by design, she was shot in the chest and her skull was stove in, which presumably was a pretty serious attempt to kill a seven year-old child. The other girl might very well have succeeded in hiding from the killers under her mother’s skirts, as she hid from the first rescuers, and then for eight hours from the police.
The Telegraph article claims to be informed by sources close to the investigation. So they believe it was a group of people, and feel motivated to absolve those people from child-killing. Now what could the Daily Telegraph be thinking?
SERCO
November 1st, 2010 in General
Paper trail of Serco’s detention centre millions raises accountability questions
My following article, with journalist Paul Farrell, appears in today’s Crikey:
The recent suicide at Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney again confirmed that the situation in Australia’s immigration detention centres has become critical. But what has remained largely unquestioned is the role of Serco, the British multinational that holds the $367 million contract to run detention facilities across the country (alongside a few prisons and a just won contract for a hospital in Western Australia).
The company said it was “preparing a report” on the suicide for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship just after the event and most journalists left it at that. But Crikey has taken a closer look at the extent that Serco outsources to other companies.
The paper trail shows how the tender process allows private companies to further outsource, limiting the abilities of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship to scrutinise the fulfilment of their contracts.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship says Serco employs two major subcontractors: MSS Security and Resolve FM.
Resolve FM is owned by the Norfolk Group and is a “facilities management” organisation that provides services across a wide range of areas.
The Norfolk Group was established in 2004, when it was bought from Tyco International by Hauraki Private Equity No.2, managed by the private equity firm JBWere (NZ). JBWere has given almost $1 million in donations to both the Liberal and Labor parties since 2000.
JBWere is also a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, which according to ASIX is the majority shareholder of the Norfolk group.
MSS Security provides security services in several detention centres and their guards have been involved in several notable incidents, including an officer allegedly caught in bed with an asylum seeker. Furthermore, foreign workers are working for MSS to guard asylum seekers and illegal fisherman at the Darwin detention centre. The Northern Territory News reported in early October that “the asylum seekers and illegal fishermen under detention in Darwin are being guarded by foreign students and “guest” workers”:
“A company payslip obtained by the NT News reveals MSS security pays its foreign staff $16 an hour plus penalties. One employee worked 66 hours during a 14-day period and took home $1554.00 after tax.”
MSS Security is actually owned by an Indian multinational security company, Security Intelligence Services (SIS) India Ltd, which also owns Chubb Security Personnel. It is one of the biggest security providers in India.
The paper trail doesn’t stop there. In January 2008 the global private equity fund DE Shaw bought a 14% stake in SIS. While this name may mean very little, the company that bought a 20% stake in DE Shaw in 2007 is more infamous; they trade by the name Lehmann Brothers.
This is the very same Lehmann Brothers that filed for bankruptcy in the US.
Mainstream media coverage, if it happens, rarely questions the ideological underpinnings of privatising asylum seekers, merely the effectiveness or otherwise of the services for them. At least some in Britain are questioning the morality and effectiveness of outsourcing the management of vulnerable people to unaccountable multinationals.
When Crikey requested the names of the subcontractors that Serco employs, a DIAC spokesperson said that not all the names of subcontractors were available. Serco employs more subcontractors, but they’re not reported to DIAC due to the size or duration of the contracts.
When asked about the specific guidelines for when a contractor had to be reported to the immigration department, a spokesperson said:
“The detention services provider has met its obligations to the department regarding the reporting of subcontractors. It would be inappropriate for the department to discuss in further detail the names of each individual contractor engaged, as it is a matter for that company … if it is a major subcontract (that being, total value greater than $1 million), IHMS (Serco) must seek prior written approval from the department … if it is a minor subcontract, IHMS (Serco) does not need to seek prior written approval from the department. IHMS (Serco) must provide a copy of the subcontract to the department within 10 business days from the department’s request.”
*Paul Farrell is a Sydney-based freelance journalist. Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist and author.
[Mod/Jon – this article was uncited by the poster, but it likely to have come from here: http://antonyloewenstein.com/2010/11/01/paper-trail-of-serco%E2%80%99s-detention-centre-millions-raises-accountability-questions/ ]
Anyone who hasn’t looked at this site before, have a look. Its fascinating.
http://www.secret-bases.co.uk/secret2.htm
SERCO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmUasJysHyQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
“Bit of overkill then?”
How else do they operate?
They bombed an entire apartment block just to kill one man once.
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Not the normal MO at all.
We are not talking about bombs from 45,000 feet.
From the MOD police website
Under MOD rules, all staff working at AWE require security clearance to the highest level (DV- Developed Vetting ).
@Ferret:
“The reason I believe this part of the fairytale is that it was reported early on, and then disappeared from the official narrative as Brett Martin’s story became the main focus. As he didn’t say he heard shots, this doesn’t fit in.”
And the fact that the BM story about the “as if playing with the sibling” was edited out from the latest BBC piece.
These are the tell-tale signs of reconstruction of a story line – editing portions that don’t fit out. One interesting exercise would be to follow the MSM evolving re-tales and track what’s missing/altered as time goes on. Yes, I know people here have been doing a good job with the details, but it may still be quite instructive to build a story-board of just these details – both large and seemingly insignificant. A pattern may emerge that would not be visible otherwise if viewed just one at a time.
For example: the significance of the shots overheard edited out (or air-brushed) may be not in the time span (less than 30 s) but in the fact that BM’s first story would be shown as inconsistent. Same with the ‘”playing with a sibling”. Ergo, BM is part of the plot -as everyone here believes, but these two dmissing details in later stories are as good as proof.
Also @Ferret:
I doubt the RAL link will prove fruitful. High power laser work ties to nuclear weapons research (for simulation) but alas, the laser fusion direction is not promising – most places have abandoned this in favor of magnetic based fusion or more esoteric approaches (microwaves, etc.). The classified work involving high power fusion is for isotope separation, but this is a very costly way of getting there. If Iran got hold of all the ‘secrets” in one sweep, they would still need at least five years to get there. Not what a cost conscious, component starved country would be likely to do.
@Bluebird
You seem to know very little about Hezbollah, and while sunni-shiite conflict is real enough in places, the real story are the elements trying to whip it up and fan the flames. It is those elements, not the age-old conflict that is interesting, especially in the present connection.
Edit; should be “…classified work involving high power lasers”.
SERCO =
Goldman Sachs
Lehman Brothers
Nice n kosher innit BOYZ 🙂
Who did the security at airports on 911?
I know, do you?
Who did the security on 7/7?
Geddit yet folks???
@ Marlin
“and while sunni-shiite conflict is real enough in places, the real story are the elements trying to whip it up and fan the flames. It is those elements, not the age-old conflict that is interesting”
Exactly! There was no sectarianism between Sunni and Shia in Iraq until the occupation. In fact they inter-married and there were many mixed tribes. The Americans deliberately engineered it by various means.
@Straw
Stedman first call. Perhaps, but not by French journalists early on the 6th. The French press was always somewhat behind the curve, frequently copying UK releases from, er, the Telegraph & Guardian. (a few exceptions – eg the Bewick house..)
So, I would NOT expect London correspondents of the French press to be first on the scene with the name of the accountant of someone whose identity has not been released.
Psy-op
@Anders – yes indeed, cui bono? Was SAH in a safe house in the UK before his holiday??
@ strawberry
@ ferret
Thanks for your support. Much appreciated!
“SERCO =
Goldman Sachs
Lehman Brothers
Nice n kosher innit BOYZ”
Aren’t Serco a UK company?
Not everying is a zionist conspiricy…
@ dave
1 Oct, 2012 – 9:47 pm
RCA/Sony/General Electric – it has an interesting history.I can see what Anders is getting at with this one.
@ Marlin
“and while sunni-shiite conflict is real enough in places, the real story are the elements trying to whip it up and fan the flames. It is those elements, not the age-old conflict that is interesting”
Exactly! There was no sectarianism between Sunni and Shia in Iraq until the occupation. In fact they inter-married and there were many mixed tribes. The Americans deliberately engineered it by various means.
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You got it Kathy.
All the wars now are economic, and via psi mercenaries to destabilise ( in other words totally fuck up) countries so that the huge corporations can move in and divide up the spoils.
The likes of Blair do the functionary work, and are well rewarded when they leave office,
Look at how son euan is being groomed.
Read what he has been up to.
Poor sod is Rosemary’s baby.
@ anders
“Poor sod is Rosemary’s baby.”
😀 made me laugh that did
1 Oct, 2012 – 9:47 pm
RCA/Sony/General Electric – it has an interesting history.I can see what Anders is getting at with this one.
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Elephant in the room.
If ferret warns me about dave broker, I pay attention. 🙂
James/Anders – please stop name calling. Deleted a trove of posts from you now – mainly Anders again I’m afraid – and they definitely added nothing to the thread. Keep it on topic.
@anders7777 – would you provide a URL citation for your piece on Serco? In general, it helps if people can verify sources of articles.
Edit: I’ve now added a likely source.
Because Al-hilli had his ilfated meeting with Sylvain Mollier, who worked for Crezus, nothing to do with Aldermaston.
There’s no point trying to look for further conspiracy theories when we know who he was there to meet, and which organisation he was from.
The unanswered questions remain who killed them all, why and why it’s all been covered up.
That’s right folks, we’ve been told now three times by the officer, IT’S NOTHING TO DO WITH ALDERMASTON. NOTHING AT ALL. REALLY. Now move along, nothing to see here folks.
@ anders
“Poor sod is Rosemary’s baby.”
made me laugh that did
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True though dopey, the homonculus is being parachuted into a safe seat. He has been doing internships in DC, in other words has been brainwashed into the AGENDA. And I mean literal state of the art stuff.
Due diligence etc, I have reams on this aberration.
Ferret,
You want to try driving to Aldermaston, someone keeps turning all the signs around.
@Marlin
Appreciate all your comments. Wish I had time to keep a storyboard, I agree that would be very fruitful.
Re the lasers, I was more getting at a possible detonation technique for a hafnium weapon than anything else, although there are some who say SILEX is being used by Iran for isotope separation, which is a different kettle of fish.
James/Anders – please stop name calling. Deleted a trove of posts from you now – mainly Anders again I’m afraid – and they definitely added nothing to the thread. Keep it on topic.
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Fahrenheit 451
A mod should not interfere
Especially when he knows sweet fa about the subject at hand
What’s the fucking point of me posting if you fucking delete everything ?????
“I´m spinning around, I´m out my head….”
Euan Blair (Leicester Square, 2000)
@Q
It is interesting to note the numbers of scientists connected to synchrotron research who have met untimely ends recent years. I can think of four in the past six years: two in 2006, one in 2009 and one in 2010. Three of the deaths involve mysterious and atypical disappearances. One was a heart attack. Of the three disappearances, two were found dead in rivers. One person is still missing. Three used the synchrotron for research, and one was connected through family.
Very interesting… none of them shot through the head, then… so the British MO is much more discreet…
@Q
It is interesting to note the numbers of scientists connected to synchrotron research who have met untimely ends recent years. I can think of four in the past six years: two in 2006, one in 2009 and one in 2010. Three of the deaths involve mysterious and atypical disappearances. One was a heart attack. Of the three disappearances, two were found dead in rivers. One person is still missing. Three used the synchrotron for research, and one was connected through family.
Very interesting… none of them shot through the head, then… so the British MO is much more discreet…
(Sorry forgot to quote Q’s original)
Kempe @ 29 Sep, 2012 – 5:22 pm said
“Eighty miles doesn’t even qualify as a low earth orbit.”
Disinformation agent. Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth at 100 miles. As spy satellites are powered they can achieve much lower orbits by increasing their velocity (even though this sounds counter intuitive it’s a fact – the lower you go the faster you have to travel)
@Ginger Nuts – interesting info about satellites. I’m not much of a physicist, but why would flying lower require the satellite to travel faster? Is that to counteract a stronger gravitational pull?
@Straw
Ferret,
You want to try driving to Aldermaston, someone keeps turning all the signs around.
Heh heh heh heh heh… they don’t like to exactly advertise, do they?!?
“RCA/Sony/General Electric – it has an interesting history”
“1987
Management buyout from RCA, Serco is born”
http://www.serco.com/about/ataglance/history/keydates.asp