Update on the Deaths of Princess Diana Spencer and
Dodi Al-Fayed
By Alex Constantine
After the death of the Princess of Wales in 1997, the
press noted in passing that Adnan Khassoghi is the
brother-in-law of Mohamed Al-Fayed, a former business
partner of one El-Amira Atta, the father of the
accused airline hijacker. Fayed was a veteran of the
American Pinay Circle that recruited Adnan into its
ranks. Back in 1953, GHW Bush, whose name would be
linked to Khashoggi's in the Iran-contra affair, and
Al Fayed were directors of the Singer Sewing Machine
company. Both Bush and Al Fayed were therefore coevals
of George de Mohrenschildt, a Nazi spy during WW II,
according to FBI records, and later Lee Harvey
Oswald's sponsor in the United States after he
returned from the Soviet Union.
The 9/11 Commission had great difficulty finding these
connections, of course, but the Iranian government -
considered somehow culpable in a vague accusation
found in the panel's final report - knew the score,
turned the accusation around, and soon found itself
the next target of the Bush administration. 
Chandigarh, India's Tribune reported  on July 25,
2004, "Iran rejects 9/11 report on Al-Qaida": "... it
is utterly without truth," foreign ministry spokesman
Hamid Reza Asefi said of the report. "US officials
could not prove any link. Nobody believes them because
of serious ideological difference between [Iran] and
the Al-Qaida.... And unlike the people who created the
Al-Qaida, Iran has fought them in a practical way," he
said, referring to past links between the USA and the
Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden." The 9/11 Commission
maintained that the Iranians kept up contact with
Al-Qaida for years, and may have provided transport
for eight or nine of the 19 hijackers. The Commission
said "intelligence indicates the persistence of
contacts between Iranian security officials and senior
Al-Qaida figures" after bin Laden returned to
Afghanistan from Sudan in 1996. The Tribune story
notes, "but it also said it found 'no evidence' that
Iran was aware of the planning for the terror attacks
on the USA." A small division of Iranian officials
"lined up to dismiss the report, playing up their
long-term differences and hostility to the Al-Qaida
and their Taliban hosts." 
An op-ed in the same issue of the Indian newspaper
observed that the Kean Commission "concludes that the
most important failure was one of imagination." No one
in the administration foresaw the terrorist strike,
according to the Kean panel. "While the Commission is
right in focusing on lack of imagination, it could
have gone into it further. Earlier in the report, the
Commission just blandly records about young Muslims
from around the world going to Afghanistan in the
1980s to join as volunteers in the Jehad against the
Soviet Union. Thereafter, the Commission switches to
Bin Laden perverting Islam to generate hatred against
the US and the West. If the Commission had devoted
some of its attention to the efforts of the CIA and
resources it spent during the '80s to nurture various
extremist Islamic groups in Afghanistan and to support
the spread of Wahabism with Saudi money, then it would
have had a lot more to say on the lack of imagination
of the CIA, the State Department and the National
Security Council. They nurtured the beast in the 80s
and yet in the '90s could not recognise the nature of
the beast."
However, but two years prior, Iran was said to have
dealt covertly with one underworld figure on intimate
terms with Al Quaeda, namely Adnan's brother-in-law,
Al Fayed, Poppy Bush's old ally at Singer. In April
2002, the prestigious French newspaper Le Journal du
Dimanche reported this week that Fayed was under
investigation by Intelligence bureaus in France and
Portugal for his role in the illegal procurement of
Uranium-235, sold to Iran in August 2001: "Al-Fayed
was implicated in the deal to provide Iran with the
material with which to build atomic weapons by his
Portuguese partner, Jose dos Santos Ferreira [an
evangelical pastor and founder of the Khárisma
Church[, 46 years old, a resident of Porto, in whose
residence investigators found the originals of faxes
discussing the deal in detail between himself and
Al-Fayed. In the documents, which are in English,
Santos Ferreira speaks about his Russian contacts and
discusses also the problems which would arise were the
shipments made through Paris." Fayed had long been
kept under scrutiny by British intelligence services.
Acting on Information from MI-6 (British CIA) the
French DST (Intelligence Service) discovered
quantities of uranium in the possession of one Serge
Salfati. Salfati and other members of the Al-Fayed
smuggling ring, Yves Ekwalla and Raymond Lobe, have
been detained in France and may be charged. According
to the examining magistrate, Al-Fayed may also be
charged. Intelligence sources in France and Israel
have revealed that evidence in their possession places
Al-Fayed as a member of a group of wealthy Arabs
living in the United Kingdom who have been engaged in
the clandestine funding of Hamas, Al Qaeda, and more
recently, the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade."
UK's Sunday Telegraph ran the story but was forced to
retract when it was flatly denied by Mohammed
Al-Fayed, who claimed that the newspaper had a
"vendetta" against him. 
If the story is true, then Al-Fayed is allied with
terrorists on both sides of the Patriot Act, like his
brother-in-law.
But it is more possible that there was no truth to the
French report, since Al-Fayed is still a free man.
Perhaps the article was planted. The press had done
its utmost to make a fool of Al-Fayed since he began
making public accusations concerning CIA and British
intelligence involvement in the murder of his son. Is
it possible that the western intelligence services had
a motive for discrediting him? 
After all, he may have had something:
Diana Inquiry More Complex Than Expected
Jan 27 10:31 AM US/Eastern
By DAVID STRINGER?Associated Press Writer
LONDON
An inquiry into the death of Princess Diana is "far
more complex than any of us thought," 
the official leading the investigation said Friday
without commenting on the conspiracy theories
that persist nearly nine years after her death.
Lord Stevens, the former head of London Metropolitan
Police acknowledged that some of the 
issues raised by Mohammed al Fayed _ whose son, Dodi,
was killed in the 1997 car crash with 
Diana _ were "right to be raised." He did not
elaborate.
Mohammed al Fayed, the owner of London's famous
Harrods store, has claimed Diana and his 
son were killed by British intelligence officials and
their deaths resulted from a plot instigated by 
Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth and Diana's
former father-in- law.
Lord Stevens, speaking in a recorded interview to
Britain's GMTV Sunday Program, did not reveal 
which of al Fayed's concerns he believed were correct.
"It is right to say that some of the issues that have
been raised by Mr. Fayed have been right to be 
raised," he told the program, to be broadcast Sunday.
"We are pursing those. It is a far more complex 
inquiry than any of us thought."
A transcript of his comments were released Friday....
The Al-Fayed-uranium smuggling imbroglio forces us to
choose between two highly inflammatory conclusions: If
the story was accurate and not planted by intelligence
operatives, there is reason to believe that Mohammed
Al-Fayed is in league with terrorists. If it was
indeed planted to sheep-dip Al-Fayed in the public's
perception of him, then he is possibly correct, the
CIA and MI-5y killed Princess Diana and Adnan
Khashoggi's nephew. 
That "complicated" inquiry into their deaths dragged
on. In January 2006, it was still going, the Daily
Express reported:
Flood of fresh evidence extends inquiry by a year 
By Peter Allen in Paris and Mark Reynolds in London 
MI6 AGENTS paid a night visit to the morgue holding
Princess Diana's body, new evidence has revealed. It
raises the prospect that the body was examined
unofficially after the Paris car crash. The agents
also had access to the bodies of Diana's boyfriend
Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul. The British
investigation into the tragedy is to extend into next
year following fresh evidence of a cover-up. It
includes the revelation, first disclosed by the Daily
Express, that blood samples taken from the body of
Paul were tampered with. Such is the level of concern
over the involvement of British spies in the hours
after Diana's death that investigators working for
Lord Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police
Commissioner who is leading the probe, are
interviewing MI6 agents who were known to have been
operating in the French capital that night. 
Having satisfied themselves that the blood said to
have come from Paul is not his, the detectives want to
know whether the samples were switched deliberately on
someone's orders or whether it was a blunder by
officials. Privately, members of the Operation Paget
team have voiced their "growing exasperation" at the
amount of new evidence they have uncovered, which they
believe the French authorities should have dealt with
years ago. 
A source close to the investigation said: "There is
compelling evidence that British agents went to the
morgue where all their bodies were kept in the period
directly after the crash. "What needs to be
established is whether Paul's blood samples were
swapped in the morgue with those of a drunk suicide
victim, so as to make it look as though Paul was
drunk. "So much new evidence is being uncovered that
those taking part in the investigation now feel sure
it will extend well into 2007." The cost of the
inquiry has passed GBP 2million - a figure which is
certain to double. The accuracy of all evidence is
crucial to the conclusion of the inquiry, which was
ordered by the royal coroner two years ago in
preparation for an inquest into Diana's death which
was - until now - expected this year. It comes as the
French authorities have requested an extension of a
deadline forcing them to answer crucial questions
about Diana's death before next Monday. 
"There is still much work to be done, " said a
judicial source in Paris. 
The European Court of Human Rights wants to know why
it took so long for Diana to reach hospital, why
pathologists broke French law by allowing her body to
be embalmed - so make making pregnancy tests invalid -
and why blood tests on her so-called "drunk driver"
have never been verified independently. 
Last month Dodi's father Mohamed Al Fayed petitioned
the court. His lawyers successfully argued that the
deaths were mysterious and that relatives of the
deceased had a legal right to a proper investigation.
The ruling calls on the French to answer all questions
as "a matter of urgency". Scores of questions have
been presented, including which security agencies were
operating in Paris on the night of Diana's death on
August 31 1997, whether Diana's car been tampered with
and why it took so long for the French emergency
services to get her to a hospital where she could have
received life-saving attention. 
An official French inquiry concluded that Paul was
drunk and speeding in a car he did not normally drive
when he lost control. 
The blood tests, allegedly taken from Paul soon after
he died, were central to their findings. But Mr Fayed
has always claimed that his son and Diana were
murdered. Mr Fayed claims the couple were expecting a
baby and were due to marry. The British establishment
did not think this acceptable, says Mr Fayed. 
Speculation was fuelled by a letter in which Diana
said she feared she would die in a car crash. 
Lord Stevens, speaking yesterday on the GMTV Sunday
Programme, admitted that many of Mr Fayed's claims
were being vindicated. "It is right to say that some
of the issues that have been raised by Mr Fayed have
been right to be raised, " he said. "We are pursing
those. It is a far more complex inquiry than any of us
thought." Asked why, Lord Stevens said: "I think it is
generally the case of these things, when you actually
go into them and look into them in minute detail." He
said the inquiries had so far thrown up more questions
"to be answered - and that makes it a complex issue". 
Lord Stevens was asked whether the results of his
inquiry would surprise the public. He replied: "I have
no idea at all, but one thing you can be sure of is
that it is a detailed inquiry - the conclusions that
we come to and I come to will be based on the
evidence."
9/11 and American Fascism, Part XXV!: The Beauty and
the Beast
(Former title, "Adnan Khashoggi Linked to 9/11
Terrorists")
By Alex Constantine
Blah, Blah Black Sheeps
Upon the death of the Princess of Wales in August
1997, the press noted in passing that Adnan Khassoghi
is the brother-in-law of Mohamed Al-Fayed, an Egyptian
intelligence operative ... also a business partner of
one El-Amira Atta, the father of the accused airline
hijacker. Fayed was a veteran of our little American
Pinay Circle. Back in 1953, GHW Bush, whose name would
be linked to Khashoggi's in the Iran-contra affair,
and Al Fayed were directors of the Singer Sewing
Machine company. Both Bush and Al Fayed were thus
coevals of George de Mohrenschildt, a Nazi spy during
WW II, according to FBI records, and later Lee Harvey
Oswald's sponsor in the United States after he
returned from the Soviet Union.1
The 9/11 Commission had great difficulty finding these
connections, of course, but the Iranian government -
considered somehow culpable in a vague accusation
found in the panel's final report - knew the score,
turned the accusation around, and soon found itself
the next target of the Bush administration. 
Chandigarh, India's Tribune reported  on July 25,
2004, "Iran rejects 9/11 report on Al-Qaida": "... it
is utterly without truth," foreign ministry spokesman
Hamid Reza Asefi said of the report. "US officials
could not prove any link. Nobody believes them because
of serious ideological difference between [Iran] and
the Al-Qaida.... And unlike the people who created the
Al-Qaida, Iran has fought them in a practical way," he
said, referring to past links between the USA and the
Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden." The 9/11 Commission
maintained that the Iranians kept up contact with
Al-Qaida for years, and may have provided transport
for eight or nine of the 19 hijackers. The Commission
said "intelligence indicates the persistence of
contacts between Iranian security officials and senior
Al-Qaida figures" after bin Laden returned to
Afghanistan from Sudan in 1996. The Tribune story
notes, "but it also said it found 'no evidence' that
Iran was aware of the planning for the terror attacks
on the USA." A small division of Iranian officials
"lined up to dismiss the report, playing up their
long-term differences and hostility to the Al-Qaida
and their Taliban hosts."2 
An op-ed in the same issue of the Indian newspaper
found that the Kean Commission "concludes that the
most important failure was one of imagination." No in
the administration foresaw the terrorist strike, said
the Kean panel. "While the Commission is right in
focusing on lack of imagination, it could have gone
into it further. Earlier in the report, the Commission
just blandly records about young Muslims from around
the world going to Afghanistan in the 1980s to join as
volunteers in the Jehad against the Soviet Union.
Thereafter, the Commission switches to Bin Laden
perverting Islam to generate hatred against the US and
the West. If the Commission had devoted some of its
attention to the efforts of the CIA and resources it
spent during the '80s to nurture various extremist
Islamic groups in Afghanistan and to support the
spread of Wahabism with Saudi money, then it would
have had a lot more to say on the lack of imagination
of the CIA, the State Department and the National
Security Council. They nurtured the beast in the 80s
and yet in the '90s could not recognise the nature of
the beast." 
However, just two years prior, Iran was said to have
dealt covertly with one underworld figure on intimate
terms with Al Quaeda, namely Adnan's brother-in-law,
Al Fayed, Poppy Bush's old business associate.  In
April 2002, the prestigious French newspaper Le
Journal du Dimanche reported this week that Fayed was
under investigation by Intelligence bureaus in France
and Portugal for his role in the illegal procurement
of Uranium-235, which was supposedly sold to Iran in
August 
2001: "Al-Fayed was implicated in the deal to provide
Iran with the material with which to build atomic
weapons by his Portuguese partner, Jose dos Santos
Ferreira [an evangelical pastor and founder of the
Khárisma Church[, 46 years old, a resident of Porto,
in whose residence investigators found the originals
of faxes discussing the deal in detail between himself
and Al-Fayed. In the documents, which are in English,
Santos Ferreira speaks about his Russian contacts and
discusses also the problems which would arise were the
shipments made through Paris." Fayed had long been
kept under scrutiny by British intelligence services.
Acting on Information from MI-6 (British CIA) the
French DST (Intelligence Service) discovered
quantities of uranium in the possession of one Serge
Salfati. Salfati and other members of the Al-Fayed
smuggling ring, 
Yves Ekwalla and Raymond Lobe, have been detained in
France and may be charged. According to the examining
magistrate, Al-Fayed may also be charged. Intelligence
sources in France and Israel have revealed that
evidence in their possession places Al-Fayed as a
member of a group of wealthy Arabs living in the
United Kingdom who have been engaged in the
clandestine funding of Hamas, Al Qaeda, and more
recently, the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade."
UK's Sunday Telegraph ran the story but was forced to
retract when it was flatly denied by Mohammed
Al-Fayed, who claimed that the newspaper had a
"vendetta" against him. 
If the story is true, then Al-Fayed is allied with
terrorists on both sides of the Patriot Act, like his
brother-in-law.
But it is more possible that there was no truth to the
French report, since Al-Fayed is still a free man.
Perhaps the article was planted. The press had done
its utmost to make a fool of Al-Fayed since he began
making public accusations concerning CIA and British
intelligence involvement in the murder of his son. Is
it possible that the western intelligence services had
a motive for discrediting him? 
After all, he may have had something:
Diana Inquiry More Complex Than Expected
Jan 27 10:31 AM US/Eastern
By DAVID STRINGER?Associated Press Writer
LONDON
An inquiry into the death of Princess Diana is "far
more complex than any of us thought," 
the official leading the investigation said Friday
without commenting on the conspiracy theories
that persist nearly nine years after her death.
Lord Stevens, the former head of London Metropolitan
Police acknowledged that some of the 
issues raised by Mohammed al Fayed _ whose son, Dodi,
was killed in the 1997 car crash with 
Diana _ were "right to be raised." He did not
elaborate.
Mohammed al Fayed, the owner of London's famous
Harrods store, has claimed Diana and his 
son were killed by British intelligence officials and
their deaths resulted from a plot instigated by 
Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth and Diana's
former father-in- law.
Lord Stevens, speaking in a recorded interview to
Britain's GMTV Sunday Program, did not reveal 
which of al Fayed's concerns he believed were correct.
"It is right to say that some of the issues that have
been raised by Mr. Fayed have been right to be 
raised," he told the program, to be broadcast Sunday.
"We are pursing those. It is a far more complex 
inquiry than any of us thought."
A transcript of his comments were released Friday....
The Al-Fayed uranium smuggling imbroglio forces us to
choose between two highly inflammatory conclusions: If
the story was accurate and not planted by intelligence
operatives, there is reason to believe that Mohammed
Al-Fayed is in league with terrorists. If it was
indeed planted to sheep-dip Al-Fayed in the public's
perception of him, then he is possibly correct, the
CIA and MI-5y killed Princess Diana and Adnan
Khashoggi's nephew. 
That "complicated" inquiry into their deaths dragged
on. In January 2006, it was still going, the Daily
Express reported:
Flood of fresh evidence extends inquiry by a year 
By Peter Allen in Paris and Mark Reynolds in London 
MI6 AGENTS paid a night visit to the morgue holding
Princess Diana's body, 
new evidence has revealed. It raises the prospect that
the body was examined 
unofficially after the Paris car crash. The agents
also had access to the bodies 
of Diana's boyfriend Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul.
The British investigation 
into the tragedy is to extend into next year following
fresh evidence of a cover-up. 
It includes the revelation, first disclosed by the
Daily Express, that blood samples 
taken from the body of Paul were tampered with. Such
is the level of concern over 
the involvement of British spies in the hours after
Diana's death that investigators 
working for Lord Stevens, the former Metropolitan
Police Commissioner who is leading 
the probe, are interviewing MI6 agents who were known
to have been operating in the 
French capital that night. 
Having satisfied themselves that the blood said to
have come from Paul is not his, 
the detectives want to know whether the samples were
switched deliberately on 
someone's orders or whether it was a blunder by
officials. Privately, members of 
the Operation Paget team have voiced their "growing
exasperation" at the amount 
of new evidence they have uncovered, which they
believe the French authorities 
should have dealt with years ago. 
A source close to the investigation said: "There is
compelling evidence that British 
agents went to the morgue where all their bodies were
kept in the period directly after 
the crash. "What needs to be established is whether
Paul's blood samples were swapped 
in the morgue with those of a drunk suicide victim, so
as to make it look as though Paul was 
drunk. "So much new evidence is being uncovered that
those taking part in the investigation 
now feel sure it will extend well into 2007." The cost
of the inquiry has passed GBP 2million - 
a figure which is certain to double. The accuracy of
all evidence is crucial to the conclusion of 
the inquiry, which was ordered by the royal coroner
two years ago in preparation for an inquest 
into Diana's death which was - until now - expected
this year. It comes as the French authorities 
have requested an extension of a deadline forcing them
to answer crucial questions about Diana's 
death before next Monday. 
"There is still much work to be done, " said a
judicial source in Paris. 
The European Court of Human Rights wants to know why
it took so long for Diana to reach hospital, 
why pathologists broke French law by allowing her body
to be embalmed - so make making 
pregnancy tests invalid - and why blood tests on her
so-called "drunk driver" have never been verified 
independently. 
Last month Dodi's father Mohamed Al Fayed petitioned
the court. His lawyers successfully argued
that the deaths were mysterious and that relatives of
the deceased had a legal right to a proper 
investigation. The ruling calls on the French to
answer all questions as "a matter of urgency". Scores 
of questions have been presented, including which
security agencies were operating in Paris on the 
night of Diana's death on August 31 1997, whether
Diana's car been tampered with and why it took 
so long for the French emergency services to get her
to a hospital where she could have received 
life-saving attention. 
An official French inquiry concluded that Paul was
drunk and speeding in a car he did not normally 
drive when he lost control. 
The blood tests, allegedly taken from Paul soon after
he died, were central to their findings. But Mr 
Fayed has always claimed that his son and Diana were
murdered. Mr Fayed claims the couple were 
expecting a baby and were due to marry. The British
establishment did not think this acceptable, 
says Mr Fayed. 
Speculation was fuelled by a letter in which Diana
said she feared she would die in a car crash. 
Lord Stevens, speaking yesterday on the GMTV Sunday
Programme, admitted that many of Mr Fayed's 
claims were being vindicated. "It is right to say that
some of the issues that have been raised by Mr Fayed 
have been right to be raised, " he said. "We are
pursing those. It is a far more complex inquiry than
any of 
us thought." Asked why, Lord Stevens said: "I think it
is generally the case of these things, when you
actually 
go into them and look into them in minute detail." He
said the inquiries had so far thrown up more questions
"to be answered - and that makes it a complex issue". 
Lord Stevens was asked whether the results of his
inquiry would surprise the public. He replied: "I have
no 
idea at all, but one thing you can be sure of is that
it is a detailed inquiry - the conclusions that we
come to 
and I come to will be based on the evidence."
Front page, Daily Express, 30th January
Left. Page 5, Daily Express, 30th January 2006