Hugo Holbling

Since i don't see it anywhere else here, i offer the link and invite speculation as to whether or not this is just a coincidence.

Body "matches" Iraq Expert.

Edit: Here's the first few lines for an inkling of what has happened:

{Edited to merge with the "Dead Men Tell No Tales" thread.}

Bill

Nobody is saying anything enlightening at the moment. Until the autopsy report comes out, I would withhold judgment. It could be a coincidence (heart attack, etc.; the guy was 59 and looked old). It could be suicide (he was apparently under stress; although it does not appear that anybody was doing anything particularly bad to him). Or, it could be more nefarious than any of us imagine......

But until you at least get an official cause of death, you have no basis for any speculation whatsoever.

== Bill

Blixy Sticks

Wow, it must be a coincidence.




Story here.

Arken

Of course, even if the official cause is revealed to be some sort of natural death, plenty of people won't believe it anyway.

Hugo Holbling

Wrong. Kelly was "broken by events", according to Wintour in the Guardian, while in more commentary Barnett deplores the government's actions. The cause of death has no bearing whatsoever on this example of how the British government copes with critique.

Edit: more.

Bill

I might give that more credance if Kelly was found dead before he testified to the MPs. By the time he showed his face in public, he had been through days of interviews and preparation by various government offices and officials. That is just how the system works.

== Bill

Jimmy Higgins

Body found matches Kelly's description

You know folks, this is getting strange. And while a murder such as the recent one that ruined Gary Condit's career was independant of Condit, I find it hard to believe someone under so much light could have been killed by just some stranger.

auto-da-fe

I am going to have to agree with Bill. I think there are thousands of ways to die, and not all are nefarious. Until we know how he died, we can't make any judgement calls.

If you must conjecture though, and you want to examine the possiblity of Mr. Kelly dying via a cover-up conspiracy, we don't know enough of the information needed to tell who might be responsible for Mr. Kelly's untimely demise. It could be just about anyone on the coalition side, or on the Iraqi loyalist side.

Danya

How awful. His face was the last thing I saw when I turned off the TV last night to go to sleep. CSPAN was broadcasting his testimony in the parliamentary hearings. This morning the first thing I see is his face and the story of his missing body. It's very easy to connect the two even without the fact that the media put's it like this:
MSNBC
If it wasn't foul play it's extremely bad luck for the government because of course people are going to link the two stories.

Iluvatar

The thing I thought was kind of strange, was that they found him not far away from his house. To me it seems that people who commit suicide usually do it inside their house or somewhere far away from their house. Of course, I probably don't have a clue about such matters and should shut up.