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?
Wonder why those comments keep hitting the filter thingy !
I anly said that the firm looks to be specialised.
And if you live in Brighton, is the parking better in London !
@Felix
H&M looks quite genuine – look at that GBP 6.5m turnover…also has a branch offshore in Gib http://www.hmsecurityservices.gi/
Wouldn’t fit in at all well at no 55.
It certainly wouldn’t! A genuine company, genuine people with genuine photos on the website (including Mr ex-RAF Regiment), etc etc.
I’ve been throwing the net wide to try and find some ex-RAF Regiment people (which is what WBM was initially rumoured to be).
I think it is a big step forward that we can now link some publicly-known ex-SAS personnel to 55 Princes Gate companies…
So I’m trying to get the link tightened up on the WBM side of things.
@ferret
Don’t mean it is not so …
It is ‘tommy ‘ere’ + etc
… guy woz a brit cit wos ‘e not?!
See if this works.
Is the parking better in London than in Brighton ?
@Ferret
And others.
Carry on Ferret, malign me all you want.
The truth is you & the fantasist pilot haven’t a clue, but try to play at being James Bond.
I don’t copy anyone & that’s what you cannot stand…someone not following you.
As for your advising others to ignore me…..hilarious, something you constantly fail to do . LoL !!!
@Ferret.
It seems that as a contractor, you set up a firm, use the accounts Sec Services…and then the Co you work for can pay your company.Well you maybe away alot, lets face it
“Specialising in High Net Worth Individuals and fully equipped to provide support outside a normal remit.
In addition to financial duties, I also manage the company travel portfolio”.
Like him
Dopey if you keep researching him,you will find that time & time again.
He is the original ‘web scrubber’……as I’ve said before. IE: a control freak….via Carter Ruck.
However,you are on the right path, keep going !
Parking is def.worse ‘n brite 1 coz green parti iz unspellabubble
An enormous amount of effort has been made looking into Brett Martin but do we now any more about the French witness Philippe Didierjean and his 2 mysterious accomplices? All we can really say is that when the police arrived there were 4 people present and as to what happened we haven’t a clue.
@ norfolkeagle
We did look into Philippe in a previous thread, and didn’t get very far at all. I’m not convinced he’s actually called Philippe Didierjean – there are various versions, name wise, of Philippe + Didier + Jean, and not all are in that order.
As for the two women we got nowhere. There were no clues given whatsoever as to their ID’s.
So we have established that Brighton is infact worse to park than in London…hence why you would have your account there.
Funnily enough, it turns out to be quite a specialised firm.
@Norfolk.
I have given this some thought.
Firstly is “Philippe Didierjean” his name. It seems quite odd.
Maybe it is “Jean Philippe Didier”. There’s a chemist bio chappie called that in Geneva.
You know how the French get with privacy
Once upon a time a clear cut story of a british state killing in a relatively obscure french town/village was told, and …
…And then said that there is a bio chemist chappie called that.
Is that the one in Switzerland James?
… and we/i was/were just doing was in essence what ‘intelligence’ (sic) agencies did for a living … which was to (re) construct narratives out of …
@nonexistent post: http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover042205a.htm
Oil for food background.
well john, you probably mean that guy otherwise you wouldn’t have cited:
http://www.philipmason.co.uk/about.html
Yes, indeed it is him and his hobby.
I like the “Pilgrims Group” of one of his friends. Very good name for such activities. Weren’t Iranian “Pilgrims” arrested in Syria most recently. Isn’t fusion a chemical thing? *LOL*
Further to all this good stuff, and as many of you have had a little visit to my post on Murder By Appointment * And Double-Cross in the French Alps, here is the link to my freshly updated post…
http://silkroadvisions.com/2012/09/11/murder-by-appointment-and-double-cross-in-the-french-alps/
Cheers all,
Carol
& when craig spoke on new mediums 2 d daft dum fuk gordies @ nuj in newcastle, he say / said : ‘…’
Repeat please …
A tale was told of a british state murder of …
@Bluebird.
That’s a big drum !
and that is my problem with Brett Martin, he is just too visible. He is on Linkedin, buys a house in France through an off-the-shelf company through a dodgy agency in London, gets a website made, he could hardly make himself more public if he tried. We know where he lives, the name of his wife etc etc and why do a tv interview? We have had plenty of cases where witnesses have not had their identity revealed for “security purposes”.
I can understand that he might have seen a lot more than was revealed on the interview and it was obvious he had been coached and that the interview was carefully edited. Good reason to keep him under wraps for the present but beyond that I cannot see that he would have been actively involved.
If he was it does not say much for our security services!
It was a british state killing … and you can get stuffed/lost in the details (and the fact that ‘nobody’ gives a shit)
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Blue…
How loud is that drum !
No Phil it was not a a British state killing nor was it intelligence led…….it was a private/personal killing .
More Iraq-UN food program background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Desmarais
Never before had it been possible … to put in ‘cross hairs’ …
Q
A bit off topic, but do you know who’s son was involved in that “aid for oil” program ? It’s as funny as hell.