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?
Blue…
That is true. But I don’t think James knows much about Saad.
And that’s my point.
Did he me the wife of James ? Maybe he did. Maybe he didn’t.
But the ONE vocal voice re Saad…is James.
Possibly his “newest” friend. Do you find that “odd” ?
…”a lone figure and psychologically fragile… and going through a difficult period after romantic difficulties”.
No, BB, I don’t think it will be another case of “Colonel Mustard” in a jail cell with a toilet tissue roll and aluminum foil. However, one can never be certain if “boudoir photos” might appear at a later date, perhaps during his trial.
Since we’re on the topic of theories, let’s not forget Martin’s connections, and what that “service” consists of.
@ BB and Ferret: Mysterious death of beamline specialist Lachlan Cranswick cannot be discarded in relation to that line of thinking.
the india/Pakistan nuclear balence
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/15/india-mumbai-submarine-explosion-divers-enter-vessel
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23648310
*balance
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10213512/Soviet-military-had-laser-weapons-for-use-against-Nato-forces-in-1980s.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2214523/U-S-Army-soon-using-laser-guns-battlefield.html
Getting back to the old zircaloy issue, new technology could have an effect on the market for this product:
“July 26, 2013 – EurekAlert – New nuclear fuel-rod cladding could lead to safer power plants – In the aftermath of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was initially driven into shutdown by the magnitude 9.0 quake; its emergency generators then failed because they were inundated by the tsunami. But the greatest damage to the complex, and the greatest release of radiation, may have been caused by explosions of hydrogen gas that built up inside some of the reactors. That hydrogen buildup was the result of hot steam coming into contact with overheated nuclear fuel rods covered by a cladding of zirconium alloy, or “zircaloy” — the material used as fuel-rod cladding in all water-cooled nuclear reactors, which constitute more than 90 percent of the world’s power reactors. When it gets hot enough, zircaloy reacts with steam to produce hydrogen, a hazard in any loss-of-coolant nuclear accident. A team of researchers at MIT is developing an alternative that could provide similar protection for nuclear fuel, while reducing the risk of hydrogen production by roughly a thousandfold. Tests of the new cladding material, a ceramic compound called silicon carbide (SiC), are described in a series of papers appearing in the journal Nuclear Technology.”
From: http://www.iem-inc.com/newitems.html
FYI: So much for another “conspiracy theory”: Area 51 has been confirmed.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/15/us/area-51-documents/index.html?eref=rss_mostpopular
As rather understandably this site has run out of steam, I thought I would catch up on the MZT site. How it passes the hours! James appears to have taken on a whole new style (reasonable, accommodating, free of expletives or insults, rational and open rather that the invariably Delphic on here) – so much so I have rather surprisingly warmed to him and his contributions. Never-the-less he has retained his persona (as private pilot, and themes such as the role of “Fat Bastard” and “How the press knew?”. Maybe there was something particular about CM that brought out an alter ego? The only other explanation I come up with is indeed a literal alter ego!
Then there is this quote of MTZ from 8-3-2013 at 09:02:06, which rather sums up her position I guess. I add it quite neutrally and free of any opinion from me. I’m sure she won’t mind me sharing it with this parallel (English) blog.
“In all cases there is much confusion. No case is an open and shut one. This case is no different from any other. There is no incompetence here, just confusion and that is normal, as I’ve just said. And NO, I am not in the pay of Prosecutor Maillaud and NO I am not French Intelligence.” –
See more at: http://www.marilynztomlins.com/articles/chevaline-shooting-saad-al-hilli-sylvain-mollier-part-12/#sthash.t8nq7ZU9.94RfPWMo.dpuf
Q
15 Aug, 2013 – 4:11 pm thanks for that contribution. It has revitalized me a bit. Here is an article for those interested in the importance of fuel rods to the safe operation of a nuclear reactor.
http://www.davistownmuseum.org/cbm/RadxFailedFuelClad.html
Needless to say I take a diametrically opposite view to MZT quoted above and that everything points to Chevaline being a diplomatic incident of some significance, carried out by operatives of an unnamed State with the collusion and co-operation of other(s).
The evidence for this is circumstantial but compelling. We have had no admissions from any official quarter that this is so. Significantly I think the French have not even included it as a possibility and have rejected even the suggestion that either they or the French victim could be implicated. (“Methinks you do protest too much”?) In contrast, the British have said nothing at all, but reacted as if a threat still exists and incredibly obstructed their so-called partners. This can only mean either a lack of trust or protecting information and sources.
What has always eluded me, has been a convincing scenario that put the various “actors” together at that remote spot, or one that would explain why some were targeted and some were not. That is what we still search for.
The fact that in the case of both Al Hilli’s and Mollier, they were both going “out of their way” with no rational explanation other than to meet one another, which from various angles – photographs, blood staining, forensics, reported testimony – has been conclusively corroborated, means that we can now take this as a given. That this is still opposed by EM is in my opinion, deeply suspect.
So to solve the crime we must come up with a convincing reason why a multi-talented Cad Engineer of Iraqi origins would want to meet up with a middle ranking engineer with over twenty years experience working in a French metal factory in such a remote place and obviously believing it was perfectly safe to do so?
Was SM competent in English? Was Saad competent in French? I don’t think we have been told that one. (I guess FB is the one to ask as regards SAH at least) No one else was out of the car and ZAH surely could not have been the translator?
“Hydrogenous impurities inside a fuel rod will ultimately hydride the Zircaloy cladding,
regardless of their initial chemical state. Massive localized hydriding leads to the hydride
blisters where the volume change is visually evident on the outside of the fuel rod, to the
serious deterioration of the mechanical properties of the clad so that splits can easily develop,
and eventually to the perforation of the clad after local breakthrough [3].
“As previously discussed, it is known, in general, that the hydriding failure, primary or
secondary, takes place in the fuel rod with high linear heat generation rate since rapid
oxidation and hydriding reaction of Zircaloy cladding are required for abundant hydrogen
production in the gap between cladding and pellet. However, the PIE results of J09-L01 rod
reveal that this rod was damaged secondarily due to the massive hydriding even though its
linear power was only 66% of the core average. This implies that in the defective fuel the
ambient environment is also very crucial as well as the fuel temperature.”
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/te_1345_web/t1345_part1.pdf
To illustrate the highly complex technology involved with fuel metallurgy (this is not blacksmith stuff although that’s technological enough)
” The conventional cladding type, at present, is a cladding of a zirconium-based alloy, such as, Zircaloy-2, Zircaloy-4, and zirconium-2.5 weight percent niobium alloy. Other types of cladding have been proposed. These proposals have included cladding of a zirconium base material with various coatings or barrier means provided on the inside wall to protect the cladding from attack by constituents released from the nuclear fuel during operation of a reactor containing the fuel rod. As examples of such coatings or barrier means that cover the full surface of the cladding, U.S. Pat. No. 4,022,662 described a cladding in connection with a separate unattached metal liner comprised of stainless steel, copper, copper alloys, nickel or nickel alloys, the liner disposed between the cladding and the fuel material. A diffusion barrier of chromium or chromium alloy is also disposed between the cladding and the metal liner. In U.S. Pat. No. 4,045,288, a composite fuel element cladding is described which comprises a zirconium alloy substrate having a metal barrier of 1-4 percent of the wall thickness formed from niobium, aluminum, copper, nickel, stainless steel and iron, and an inner layer of stainless steel, zirconium or a zirconium alloy metallurgically bonded on the inner surface of the metal barrier. U.S. Pat. No. 4,093,756 and U.S. Pat. No. 4,137,131 disclose processes for electroless deposition of a metal film, such as nickel, on a zirconium or zirconium alloy article, and refer to an earlier copending application, Ser. No. 522,769 filed November 11, 1974, which was abandoned in favor of a continuation application Ser. No. 725,824 filed Sept. 23, 1976. That earlier application related to a composite cladding comprising a zirconium-based outer layer and on the inside surface, a layer of copper, nickel, iron or iron alloys.”
sorry that was @ http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US4659545
“A typical solid nuclear fuel rod includes a zirconium alloy tube or “cladding” encasing a single column of uranium fuel pellets. The cladding tube is smaller in diameter than your index finger, and is about 12 feet long. The uranium pellets are each about the size of the tip or your pinky finger, with the energy equivalent of 17000 cubic feet of natural gas, 1780 pounds of coal or 3.5 barrels of oil. The pellets are stacked in the tube with allowance for pellet expansion during fission and heating of the uranium. Once the uranium pellets are loaded into the cladding tube, zirconium end caps are welded in place to form a complete loaded fuel “rod.”
The cladding, pellets and even an individual virgin rod are not hazardous to handle alone, however, multiple loaded rods in close proximity will begin a spontaneous fission reaction. The rods are thus maintained in a non-critical, i.e., a non-fissioning, state during storage or transport by either substantial separation between rods or by control rods or other moderators suitable to absorb neutrons in a more compact rod arrangement.
The fuel rods are then arranged in “bundles” or “fuel rod assemblies”, e.g., 14×14 or 17×17 arrays, which are then inserted into the core with a number of control rods being retractable from the bundle to initiate fission and insertable into the bundle to stop fission. Many rod bundles are oriented vertically in the reactor core with a substantial flow of water passing upward through the bundles to convey the fission reaction heat to a steam turbine for generation of electricity.
The zirconium cladding serves to hermetically isolate the uranium pellets and accumulated fission byproducts from exposure to the water flow in the core or cooling tank or to the atmosphere.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/radioactive-zirconium-found-fukushima-confirms-exposed-fuel-rods-high-level-radiation-emitte
Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry: Thirteenth International Symposium – Issue 1423 – Page 616 – Google Books Result
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0803128959
Gerry D. Moan, Peter Rudling – 2002 – Nuclear fuel claddings
ABSTRACT: Zircaloy-2 fuel cladding is susceptible to several forms of secondary degradation following steam ingress in defective rods in BWRs. Hydride blister …
“Iranian news site Khabar Online reported that the exhibition included equipment from “several prominent factories in Germany, the United States, Romania, Ukraine, China, South Korea and Australia. The devices could stop functioning or explode at a specific time.”
According to the report, “some of the pieces had an intelligent processor stashed inside to disable them through satellite-emitted signals.”
Among the equipment on display was a zirconium powder and metal used in nuclear reactors as a protective layer for fuel rods. The Iranians claim they received a powder with 25% instead of 65% which could sabotage the uranium enrichment process.
An intelligence source at the exhibition said that since the end of 2009 “the sabotage against our nuclear and energy facilities has increased and in recent months has been carried out in against our petrol, gas, communications, nuclear and defense sectors.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4286162,00.html
“The source believes that the sabotage was carried out when the equipment was in the hands of companies who negotiated between Iran and foreign companies for acquiring equipment.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4286162,00.html
“NUCLEAR SABOTAGE IN IRAN?
Some analysts believe Iran may be suffering wider sabotage aimed at slowing its nuclear advances, pointing to a series of unexplained technical glitches that have cut the number of working centrifuges at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant.
Natanz is at the core of Western concerns about Iran’s nuclear intentions since the country, without any nuclear power plants other than Bushehr, has no current civilian use for enriched uranium. Western leaders believe Iran, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers, secretly aims to refine uranium to the high degree suitable for atom bombs.
Earlier this month, an Iranian official said his country had been hit by a new malware called “Stars.” But foreign experts have voiced doubt that this represented a second cyber attack.
The Bushehr plant was begun by German electronics giant Siemens in the 1970s but the project was halted by Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Russia later completed the plant and will supply its fuel.
– See more at: http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/iran-doing-final-pre-start-tests-at-nuclear-plant/#sthash.3wuHlV3T.dpuf
Newsletter Thursday September 27, 2012
“A laboratory in southern U.S. designs technical measures aimed at damaging or exploding components used in these industries,” an unnamed Iranian intelligence source said. “Of course, we have precise information on this laboratory,” he added.
One of the items on display was zirconium powder, used as a protective layer on fuel rods. According to the Iranians, they received powder that had a lower concentration, which could have sabotaged the enrichment process.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5915
“In some of these devices, an intelligent processor was stashed to disable them through satellite-emitted signals,” one Iranian official noted.”
The Iranian Nuclear Programme: To Bomb or Not to Bomb?
by Paul Knott26 September 2012
“As a result, most of the world remains committed to pursuing a peaceful, negotiated solution to the Iranian nuclear issue, led by the “E3+3” group (the UK, France and Germany plus the US, Russia and China). Fortunately, many analysts believe that Iran is not as close to successfully manufacturing a nuclear weapon as Netanyahu claims. International sanctions are exerting ever greater pressure on Iran’s economy in an attempt to persuade the country that its nuclear programme is not worth the cost. The programme is also being disrupted by computer viruses and a series of mysterious deaths of important participants in it. These pressures may eventually induce Iran to engage seriously in negotiations with the E3+3.
Notwithstanding the possibility of unilateral action by the Israeli government, this pattern of Iranian defiance, increased international pressure short of open warfare and stalled negotiations is likely to continue for some months yet. The huge risk thereafter is that the Israeli government’s patience will snap or that the Iranians will underestimate the ultimate determination of the US and its allies to prevent them from developing a nuclear weapon. The consequences of a military conflict, if it comes to that, are difficult to predict but could make the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan look like minor scuffles.”
http://sabotagetimes.com/life/the-iranian-nuclear-programme-to-bomb-or-not-to-bomb/
November 2011: Fars News Agency reports that a bomb explosion at an arms depot near Tehran killed seventeen members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, including Major General Hassan Moqqadam, a key figure in Iran’s ballistic missile program; U.S. Executive Order 13590 imposes sanctions on entities supporting the development of Iran’s energy industry.
January 2012: EU imposes an embargo on Iranian oil imports and freezes Iran’s central bank assets; Iranian media reports that an explosion in Tehran killed nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.
February 2012: Iran announces installation of Iranian-made nuclear fuel rods at TRR; NBC News, citing two anonymous senior U.S. officials, reports that Mossad is working with the Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen Khalq to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists; U.S. Executive Order 13599 imposes sanctions on Iran’s financial institutions and certain individuals, as well as on property and interests held by the Iranian government.
March 2012: SWIFT international banking network bars electronic transactions by Iranian banks.
April 2012: U.S. Executive Order 13606 blocks property and entry into the United States of Iranians involved in human rights abuses by means of information and communications technology.
May 2012: U.S. Executive Order 13608 bans certain transactions with—and bars entry into the U.S. to—those who evade or violate U.S. sanctions on Iran or Syria; IAEA reports traces of 27 percent enriched uranium at the Fordo facility.
June 2012: New York Times reports that the Bush administration developed a covert program, Operation Olympic Games, aimed at sabotaging Iran’s nuclear program through cyber attacks; the paper says the Obama administration continued the program.
July 2012: U.S. Executive Order 13622 imposes new sanctions on Iranian energy and petrochemical sectors.
August 2012: U.S. Iran Threat Reduction & Syria Human Rights Act (ITRSHRA) broadens sanctions on foreign entities doing business with Iran’s energy, financial, and transportation sectors.
September 2012: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium could put it within reach of a nuclear weapon by mid-2013; hints at military attack if Iran fails to heed “red line.”
October 2012: U.S. Executive Order 13628 authorizes implementation of ITRSHRA, including sanctions on foreign subsidiaries of U.S. firms.
January 2013: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says “if worse comes to worst, there should be a readiness and an ability to launch a surgical operation that will delay [Iran’s nuclear weapons program] by a significant time frame.”
February 2013: Vice President Joe Biden offers direct talks on Iran’s nuclear program; Khamenei rejects the offer saying sanctions on Iran are a “gun held to its head.”
March 2013: Asked on Israeli television if the U.S. would attack Iran if diplomacy failed, Obama said “All options are on the table. The United States obviously has significant capabilities.”
April 2013: Iran announces it has activated a uranium processing plant and two uranium mines to expand Iran’s capacity to produce nuclear material.
May 2013: IAEA report finds that Iran has produced 324 kg of 20 percent enriched uranium; U.S. ends ban on sale of communications equipment and software to Iranians.
June 2013: Cleric Hassan Rowhani (1948–), former secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and lead nuclear negotiator, is elected president; U.S. Executive Order 13645 imposes sanctions on Iran’s automobile industry and on transactions in Iranian currency.
http://www.aucegypt.edu/gapp/cairoreview/pages/articleDetails.aspx?aid=396
“Alarm In Tehran & Moscow Over Bushehr Nuclear Reactor’s Near-Explosion
Debkafiles ^ | December 1, 2012, 13:13
Posted on 12/3/2012 3:38:52 AM by drewh
Iran’s nuclear reactor at Bushehr was shut down for fear of an explosion. Saturday Dec. 1, an authoritative Russian nuclear industry source revealed the cause of its malfunction: “Indicators showed that some small external parts were… in the [Bushehr] reactor vessel….” They were identified as “bolts beneath the fuel cells.”
Moscow sources report this information came from a source in the office of Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Russian nuclear energy authority Rosatom, which supervised the construction of Iran’s first atomic reactor at Bushehr.
According to our intelligence sources, Russian scientists and engineers were rushed from Moscow to Bushehr when Russian leaders including Vladimir Putin were warned that the danger of an explosion at Bushehr was high. Neither Moscow nor Tehran reported what was happening. Now they are racing against the clock to get the reactor back on stream.
Russian experts estimated that an explosion at the Bushehr reactor had the potential for causing a million Iranian deaths and hundreds of thousands of radiation victims in the Persian Gulf emirates, which supply the world with one-fifth of its fuel. The hazard was so great in October that Putin ordered command teams of the Russian emergency ministry trained to deal with nuclear disasters to set out for Bushehr in southern Iran and prepare the infrastructure for larger teams.
The engineers immediately shut down the reactor and removed its 163 fuel rods. The bolts which had turned up in the reactor vessel were examined to find out from which part of the plant they had come loose – from the fuel rods – which would have embarrassed Russia as their supplier – or some other part of the reactor. The Russian source which revealed the mishap made a point of saying that the bolts were “small external parts,” indicating that they were not from the rods. Our intelligence sources in Moscow report that two possible outside causes of the malfunction are under scrutiny by Moscow and Tehran: 1. The bolts were deliberately unscrewed and dropped into the reactor vessel as an act of sabotage;
2. The Stuxnet virus which attacked Iran’s nuclear program two years ago was back and had tampered with the reactor’s computers.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2965039/posts
FOURTEEN “cut and pastes” jobs in a row !
Now that has to be a “self deluded” record.
James
18 Aug, 2013 – 2:52 am why do you have a problem with cut and paste as long as they’re relevant? I don’t claim they are mine. They are background to the issue of Iranian nuclear sabotage involving the technicalities of titanium use. It’s quite easy to skip if you don’t like. What IS your problem????????????? Just concentrate on MZT where you are “oh so polite” and keep yur “mr angry” away from here. It’s just soooo BORING.
I thought these recent quotes from MZT herself might amuse some of you (and annoy others, sorry BB, Pink etc)
… I know how it was done. … **** was assassinated assassinated assassinated. … There is a conspiracy **** to keep the people from knowing this…
[my ****]
Clue she is not talking about Chevaline.
Seems conspiracy theories are okay sometimes, what is so different about Chevaline?
BTW I don’t subscribe to a “Diana conspiracy”.
I’m with James, all that is tantamount to spamming, Tim.
I rarely read your posts as they are too long,too numerous & scatter gun, surely you could be more ‘concise ?
aaaaah Katie
18 Aug, 2013 – 7:23 pm. I would expect no other. It’s easy as you say. If you don’t like don’t read. So why should it be annoying? Some presumably do like to read, and in the absence of any “new news” if I find it interesting, then so might others.
What is the significance of those authoritative extracts.
1. the importance of metal technology to the whole atomic power issue.
2. the importance of zirconium to uranium containment within the reactor
3. the importance of zirconium to the creation of explosive hydrogen if overheating occurs as probably what happened at Fukishima
4. the importance of welding technology to safe containment and details of failure rates in the States. (A famous film was based on it you will remember in which a “leaker” was killed)
5. specific examples of sabotage of the Iranian programme involving explosive devices, containment failures, zirconium adulteration, computer viruses, satellite technology, scientist assassination, explosions at nuclear facilities, that are generally accepted to be the work of Israeli and American clandestine efforts.
6. we know Ben Zygier who was suicided whilst under the highest level of custodial supervision, was involved in an Italian based operation to ship defective equipment to Iran.
7. we know the Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu has been obstructed in his endeavours by his own military commanders and the US to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities.
8. we know that Iran has circumvented international embargoes by obtaining materials from European companies in which Areva and Siemens have been historically implicated, subverted from their stated legal destinations via mainly Dubai. Dubai being the principal nexus.
9. we know that there are links to Dubai through both Saad and Iqbal and unexplained visits there. Thanks to BB’s impressive researches we also know of strong and imposing diplomatic, western intelligence and proscribed Hezbollah links via the three interwoven victims families.
10. there is strong circumstantial evidence that Saad’s brother not only works for a private limited company with historic right wing links and political assassination in the middle east, but British SIS also.
11. there is strong circumstantial evidence that Saad also, at least at the time of the Iraqi invasion, been an asset of MI6 or Foreign Office.
12. SM’s only claim to fame appears to be his long employment at Cezus and therefore we may assume high level of practical technical knowhow in relation to specialist metals, and particularly zirconium products, which it supplied to the parent company Areva.
Now when you put all this together I believe you would be a fool not to allow the possibility at least, that the proven yet strenuously denied by the French Prosecutor, meeting in the forest between SM and SAH had something to do with Iranian nuclear efforts, either with a view to learning about them or sabotaging them, and that the carefully planned and executed operation to kill the participants, was something to do with stopping it.
Oh and in passing, I love it how certain notable contributors predictably “pop up” every so often, after days or weeks absence from any significant contribution to pour scorn on someone who does. I will let readers draw their own conclusions.
I think that tim’s new submitted files are quite interesting, in particular the link to Romania. We should try to find more regarding that romanian link.
Bleb, Havent we talked about the Diana conspiracy in connection with chevaline, too? I remember that we had two weeks talk last year on that blog regarding french and sis conspiracies regarding diana.