Dr David Kelly was a weapons inspector who died of apparent suicide. Blair was considered by many to be responsible for his death.
An ex-government minister who investigated the death of weapons inspector David Kelly has called for him to be awarded a posthumous honour.
Former Lib Dem MP Norman Baker believes the scientist should get a knighthood for his work on the biological weapons threat from Russia and Iraq.
The former transport minister, whose book The Strange Death Of David Kelly has been updated, also called for an inquest to be held into the weapons inspector's death, which shocked Britain more than two decades ago.
Dr Kelly, 59, was at the centre of a row between the BBC and Tony Blair's Labour government over claims that No10 'sexed up' a dossier on Iraq's weapons capability.
After he was named as a source for a BBC report – as Mr Blair was making a case for Britain to join the US in a war in Iraq – he was hauled before MPs to give evidence.
Days later, on July 18, 2003, his body was found in woodland near his home in Oxfordshire after he apparently took his own life.
Mr Baker has investigated claims Dr Kelly was murdered or assassinated because of his role in the 'dodgy dossier' row or his work as a weapons inspector in Iraq.
......the Government-commissioned Hutton Inquiry was 'a travesty'.
It found Dr Kelly committed suicide. Critics of the Hutton Inquiry claim it failed to fully examine how Dr Kelly died, including the official cause of death.
Dr Kelly was a weapons inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998, following the first Gulf War, and was nominated for a Nobel peace prize. He spent most of his career as a consultant on arms control for the Ministry of Defence and other government departments.
Kind of like naming a federal holiday in the USA after a man who was assassinated by the federal government. If I were Dr. Kelly's family, I would reject any honor coming from the government that killed him. ,
I remember this! Through the years I have gone back and referred to it. The suicide was bullshit and was known right away because of how he was found. He went for a short walk after dinner as usual and did not come back. He was found under a bush he really didn't fit under, much of his body still exposed. They said he committed suicide. When you look at where they found him I don't know how he would have crawled under that bush getting all scratched up and leaving his legs out and then killing himself. This was a man of means and he could have gone to a hotel room if he didn't want to do it in the home he shared. But to try and crawl under a bush with branches that will scrape you cuz you don't fit and half of you is still out, then you commit suicide? NOPE
PS don't forget Tony Blair came as a guest of George w bush for a weekend that Blair's escort was Jeff Gannon! The fake news reporter GW had a press room and got caught after softballing with him. Jeff Gannon ran two Washington DC gay websites for escorts, militarystud.com and man4man.com Trouble started in the US when Jeff Gannon said on the internet Tony was coming and he was going to show him around. The Secret service did not release the info yet that Blair was coming. But Gannon knew! They found 38 visits to the White House by Jeff Gannon signed in and not signed out, mostly when Laura Bush was away. Hmmm
I remember all of this.
Disgusting government we have.
I suspect the MP Robin Cook was killed as well, and maybe the Labour leader John Smith was killed to make way for Blair, that absolute PoS Tony Blair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_(Labour_Party_leader)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Cook
heart attacks, both.
How different might our country have been?.
John Smith was popular with the people, old school working mans labour leader.
At the time, it just seemed sad and natural, now you can't help but wonder. And Robin, he resigned on principle, Tony Blair did not go to his Funeral, was that the families wishes?.
Blair, is despised!
He seemed so fresh and full of hope in the beginning. But like Dorian Gray's portrait, his face has turned sinister, every line of evil and treachery is etched for us to see.
I voted for TB in '97 when I was young and inexperienced.
My dad was a hard lefty but he saw right through Blair, he didn't trust him. I should have listened to my dad.
I read in a Scottish site about this atrueindependantscotland.com. This site has disappeared and isn't on the Wayback machine.
It said that Maggie Thatcher was asked by the old South African regime for some nuclear weapons to defend its self as the rest of Africa hated them, she agreed.
David Cameron and David Kelly were given this task, David Cameron was just out of Uni, the higher ups thought "let see if he can win his spurs with this one" so he got the job. It involved taking 7 bombs to a warehouse in Oman and leaving them there, leave them there and just walk away.
The SA armed forces tested one in the southern ocean, this could have been the double flash of light seen by the US Vela satellite. The Vela Incident of 1979. They tested another one on Macquarie Island but it failed to detonate.
When Apartheid collapsed the 5 remaining bombs were sold on the international black market, Nelson Mandela knew nothing about this. Who bought them is anyone's guess.
There was a huge security presence for the 2012 London Olympics, an aircraft carrier moored in the Thames and several squadrons of RAF fighters on rapid response status and a good number of Royal Marine Commando units on board the carrier. The Independant Scotland site said that a nuke was found in a warehouse in East London ready to go.
David Kelly might have said he would go public with this ......
Needless to say I don't have a source for all this, I wish I did.
Wow, that is interesting, it does sound like something from a Tom Clancy novel. Strange that it has been scrubbed from the internet.