Another Lady Di-Dodi Al Fayed Bombshell
The story in a London newspaper that a forthcoming report states that the U.S. Secret Service was bugging Princess Diana’s telephone conversations (without the approval of British security services) in the hours before she was killed in a car crash in Paris is shocking but not surprising.
It was bad enough that driver Henri Paul was drunk on his arse while speeding through a Paris tunnel on August 31, 1997, with Diana, the 36-year-old Princess of Wales, and Egyptian playboy Dodi Al Fayed, 42, in the back seat.
Dark rumors and conspiracy theories began circulating almost immediately:
According to one theory, the lovers had stumbled into an underworld feud.Or were killed by Freemasons because the tunnel was decorated with ancient masonic symbols.
Or rubbed out by a former Scotland Yard detective who planted an untraceable plastic explosive under their Mercedes limousine.
The most provocative theory (to me anyway) that the deaths of the princess and playboy were the result of a racist plot masterminded by Prince Philip and engineered by James Bond’s MI6, the British secret service – has long been endorsed by Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi’s father and a longtime thorn in the side of the British establishment.
The forthcoming report from Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens on the Secret Service surveillance states that U.S. has admitted listening to Lady Di’s conversations while she stayed at the Ritz hotel, but failed to notify MI6, its British counterpart. Stevens is said to have been told that 39 classified documents detailing Diana’s final conversations did not reveal anything sinister or contain material that might help explain her death.
The report again begs the question about why so many clandestine government organizations were so interested in Di and Dodi.
The thoughtful Captain Ed notes at Captain’s Quarters that earlier in 1997 the U.S. had suffered attacks by radical Islamists at Khobar Towers and the World Trade Center and Clinton administration officials have said that terrorism was their primary focus.
Asks the captain:
“So what the hell were we doing spying on Diana?“This undercores the impression that America didn’t take security seriously in the 1990s. Diana had zero interest to our national security. The only interest America had in Diana was commercial; she sold truckloads of magazines. Besides her work opposing the use of land mines, which the US wants to continue using in certain situations, she had almost no impact on politics at all here, let alone security.”
With all due respect, there is a partisan leap of logic there that I’m unable to follow, but it’s still a helluva story, isn’t it?
7 Responses to “Another Lady Di-Dodi Al Fayed Bombshell”
“but it’s still a helluva story, isn’t it?”
If you read The Weekly World News, or some other tabloid maybe, but no, no it isn’t.
Am I the only wondering if it might have been not what Diana was saying but what Dodi Al Fayed was saying to Diana that interested US and/or British authorities? Not to feed consipiracy theories — we all have better things to do with our time — but then again … ?
Not only that, but Clinton’s focus on Princess Diana was so extreme that it prevented Bush from taking all of those reports on al Qaeda seriously.
That PDB titled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”? Buried under stacks of dossiers on Charles and Diana and the Spice Girls.
If it was the Secret Service doing surveillance then (assuming there was no reason to suspect a threat to POTUS), their role is usually to investigate counterfeiting or other financial fraud. There certainly could have been an angle there with Al Fayed’s family fortunes and connections. I have to agree that Ed Morrissey is being a little partisan: there is no reason that the Clinton administration couldn’t have focused surviellance efforts on this (if there was something there) as well as dealing with terrorist threats. Islamist terrorism certainly wasn’t taken seriously enough during the 90s but we mainly realize that in hindsight and I can’t make the leap that the problem was that we were too focused on Lady Di.
well dodi was brown, right? clearly a threat to national security. by default.
So.
“So what the hell were we doing spying on Diana?”
Who said Lady Di was the primary target?
“The documents on the princess seem to have arisen because of the company she kept rather than through any attempt to target her.”
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So, has there been a serious reason to investigate her ‘company’?
“The prestigious French newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche and the renowned Portuguese daily, Horas have both reported this week that Egyptian born, multimillionaire, Mohamed Al-Fayed, owner of London’s world famous, Harrod’s, is under investigation by Intelligence services and security police in France and Portugal for his part in the illegal procurement of weapons-grade Uranium-235 which was sold to Iran in August 2001.”
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