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?
James
Do I want you to go where?
and
Ferret
That’s how I found Mystic Meg – searching for BM ex SAS 🙂
@James
Yeah, give it a blast, what the heck…
Lightning studies are old hat for SSTL.
http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/newsbulletin/2004/03/11/text10.shtml
@Dopey
Aha! That explains it. And there was me thinking you’d come over all astrological!!!
🙂
In the meantime, I’ve been wondering why the company would be called Squadron Ltd, and found this:
http://www.eliteukforces.info/special-air-service/
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/jerry-cannell/10/a57/101
MoD
{http://www.creditgate.com/directorsearch/directorsdetails+jerry+cannell_10495907.aspx}
No directorships at Duedil.
Hairdressing & Beauty
{https://www.duedil.com/company/07256639/eden-skincare-limited}
11 Sep 2012 Dissolution Notice In Gazette
06 Sep 2012 Change of Directors
06 Sep 2012 Change In Registered Office Address
This is the complete street of col de l’arpettaz starting from ugine from the drivers point of view. Somewhere there must be the spot where the (apparently fake) crash must have happened.
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=4OMkXvmrLjQ&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4OMkXvmrLjQ&gl=DE
That clip does not help a yota, however it gives an impression about how it looks like there.
@James
Still there?
@Ricki
Sounds very exciting… don’t divulge your source – just let us know what you can, when you can.
“The more informed people would actually know that the SAS recruit [from the] RAF Regiment.
[…]
Like other sections of the British armed forces, the SAS accepts members from the Commonwealth and The Republic of Ireland, with notable representation from Fiji, the former Rhodesia, New Zealand and Australia.”
http://www.e-goat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2891-why-doesn-t-anybody-rate-the-Raf-regiment
@Dopey
I tried to reply 3 times but the flippin spam filter caught it every time! Gah…
We’re certainly all resilient on here, persevering with this site and its eccentricities.
I’m off for some sleep. Catch you later folks.
Goodnight… sleep well.
Big Post ! But I’ll leave it.
Still here
Just trying to “word” what I think !
@Peter
I found the uncropped right-side photo of the Pajero via Google image – it only occurs on LD’s FB page, and only as a 114x semi-thumbnail. It has been replaced by the familiar shot when you click on…
@Bluebird
the original report said 1km below the Col.
Re your dismissal of theories earlier today, there is a weird Twitter exchange near the start of this. A ?middle eastern? woman whose tweets are all about jewellery/fashion suddenly involves herself with the Mollier shooting.{@Vintage330} Seemed keen to state that the wife was from Iran. Don’t know what to make of it. Disinfo?
BTW the French press are publicising the Freefone number. Making sure the horse has bolte first.
0800.002.950
Don’t all ring in at once.
@Ricki Tarr:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker,_Tailor,_Soldier,_Spy
Clever name!
@Q cheers!
@Ferret: SAS has clones in other countries, like JTF2, which coincidentally was relocating to the base where the killer colonel Russell Williams was in command. There is also a WMD unit at the same base. Williams was convicted of murdering two civilians.
Hey… guess what’s at No 16 Princes Gate? The Iranian Embassy, that’s what. The one that the SAS stormed way back in 1980.
And guess what else… try google maps for 55 Princes Gate, London, SW7 2PN. Takes you to the Polish Club on Princes Gardens (opposite Imperial College, round the corner from Princes Gate)!
Pretty strange place, this 55 Princes Gate…
Felix
9 Oct, 2012 – 11:14 pm
It´s just somebody who makes comments on twitter about jewellry and news.
http://twitter.com/Vintage330
“I traveled from Alexandria, Egypt to SoCal”
It´s not a source who knows Iqbal, or her orgin.
In Le Monde today, Iqbal is described as born in Iraq, as in most other media.
Ferret
I have “I think” figured one bit.
And you were right.
A team of ex22nd. (Ex Aircrew)….
And there is the deed(s).
My VPN is “up the wall”
That makes perfect sense to me too…
As someone suggested … imagine a (big) swan that opened its wings // …and obscured …
Hi Folks,
Lots of sleuthing here! Thanks for the link, and hope you enjoy.
My real background is as much political science and rumblings of “the Great Game” as it is in astrology – so there are more than a few angles here I have been looking at, and I see you all have been looking at them too.
Not to forget looking at where a mystery woman may fit in here…I also think the presence of the mother-in-law, whom the children seemed unfamiliar with (at least the youngest one), indicates a flight to somewhere.
The biggest thing for me is the endless short trips he made by car leaving the family in the original camp-site. Was that a series of meetings with the same person or different meetings with different people – in which case this all gets far too Monty Python…
Cheers, MM
1. All that bad faith crap (in mail on sunday, etc) about ‘iranian’ assass. $quads,etc ..
2. …
Money exchange in geneva … and then he goes back (across a border) to …
So… House for rent.
Please contact….Bernie at !
Nah!
We are “scmucks” ! Its done. I see it.