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Dark Actors - The Life and Death of David Kelly (Paperback)
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One July afternoon in 2003, in a quiet part of Oxfordshire, a
scientist went out for a walk and never came back. Dr David Kelly
had been all over the news in the preceding days; as an
investigator on the team which went into Iraq to check whether they
had weapons of mass destruction, he had been accused of anonymously
briefing a BBC reporter that the government's case for the Iraq War
had been deliberately falsified. When the news came through that
his body had been found in woods near his country home, for the
briefest of moments, a stunned Britain held its breath and wondered
if this was what it had come to. Our intelligence services were
already collaborating in the torture of British citizens for
reasons of national security. Had they committed murder too? Tony
Blair himself was for once without answer. At a press conference in
Japan a reporter stood up and asked him if he had blood on his
hands. The Prime Minister stood there blinking behind his mask
until he walked, shocked, from the podium. But Britain kept calm
and carried on. Normal service was resumed, and the world began
spinning again. David Kelly, we were told, had committed suicide
for personal reasons that had nothing to do with Downing Street or
the Iraq War. But not all could believe that. For those that
couldn't, they too lost a part of themselves that afternoon.
Conspiracy theorists, eccentrics, obsessives, lunatics, paranoids,
fantasists, zealots: they had been awarded all these sobriquets and
more. Yet it was easy enough to see, lurking behind the cracks and
gaps in the government's account, the hulk of a great and
deliberate dishonesty. Simply to read about what transpired in
Longworth, Oxfordshire on the 17thJuly 2003 made it impossible to
believe otherwise.
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