Mai Pederson calls for Dr David Kelly inquest

now, this is an interesting one: according to ITN, US Air Force officer Mai Pederson*, she's an old chum of suicide'd Iraq weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, has written to the Attorney General calling for an independent review into his death.

No inquest was ever completed into the death of Dr Kelly in 2003, just days after he was indentified as the source of stories questioning then prime minister Tony Blair's case for war in Iraq.

But the Hutton Inquiry into his death found that he killed himself by swallowing 29 painkillers and slitting his left wrist.

Ms Pedersen, who worked with Dr Kelly in Iraq in the 1990s and remained a close friend, challenged this finding in 2008, revealing he had an injury to his right elbow which made it difficult for him to cut with a knife. [source ITN]

Here's a quote from another Daily Mail article detailing exactly what was wrong with Dr David Kelly's right arm:

‘I don’t know whether he was born right-handed but by the time I first met him he favoured his left hand for any task that required strength, like opening a door or carrying his briefcase.

‘When he embraced friends at the beginning and end of Baha’i meetings, it was his left arm that you felt hugging you and you could tell his right arm hurt him because he rubbed the elbow a lot.

‘I didn’t want to pry but he finally told me the reason in the spring of 2003. It was the last time I saw him before he died. He was visiting America on business and we went out to dinner.

‘He ordered steak and he was holding his knife very oddly in the palm of his right hand, with his wrist crooked, trying to cut the meat.

‘He told me that some time ago he had broken his right elbow and it was never fixed properly, so he had real problems with it. It was painful and it never regained its strength.

'I just don’t see how he could have used his right hand to cut through the nerves and tendons of his left wrist - especially as the knife he supposedly used had a dull blade.’ [source DAILY MAIL]

*Mai Pederson is the subject of quite a lot of internet speculation, here's a revealing article from Norman Baker MP in the Mail Online, a member of the UK Parliament who has fought for the re-opening of the Kelly case since its premature dismissal and locking of the files for seventy years.

Yeah, I realise such file-locking also happened in the JFK assassination case, too.

Whatever comes out about whom, the Iraq War is looking more and more like a cynical corporate ruse. Man, I'm sick of these PROFIT games all over my beautiful planet.