In December 2006, Lord Stevens published the whitewash...I'm sorry...the Report on his investigation into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
No-one, not even Inspector Knacker, will ever know what happened in that Paris tunnel in August 1997. However, if it was not an accident, why do we all assume Diana was the target?
Barely a month before, Dodi's father, billionaire former arms dealer, Mohammed al-Fayed, had promised to name all of the Arab middlemen who had done dirty arms deals with the Tories in the Eighties - deals which included huge political arms bribes.
We now know, from Saudi reaction to the SFO investigation into Al Yamamah bribery, that Arabs get really sensitive when someone tries to wash their dirty arms laundry in public.
The Saudi Royal Family responded by threatening to break off diplomatic relations with Great Britain. Arms middlemen can't do that. But to what other lengths might they have gone to shut down Mohammed...?
There is an old saying in the Middle East: if you want to hurt someone, hurt the one they love. And if you want to underline the threat, send an exclamation point.
There could have been no more poignant an exclamation point to the threat to Mohammed from those ruthless arms middlemen than that the collateral damage included the death of Diana.
Mohammed will, of course, point the finger at anyone else - I mean, what would the great British public have to say of a man who allowed the "Peoples' Princess" to die because of his sleazy arms past?
Now, do I personally think the crash was a set-up, rather than an accident? All I will say is this: I have a problem believing that a billionaire would hire a drunk to drive his meal-ticket to the British aristocracy...
No-one, not even Inspector Knacker, will ever know what happened in that Paris tunnel in August 1997. However, if it was not an accident, why do we all assume Diana was the target?
Barely a month before, Dodi's father, billionaire former arms dealer, Mohammed al-Fayed, had promised to name all of the Arab middlemen who had done dirty arms deals with the Tories in the Eighties - deals which included huge political arms bribes.
We now know, from Saudi reaction to the SFO investigation into Al Yamamah bribery, that Arabs get really sensitive when someone tries to wash their dirty arms laundry in public.
The Saudi Royal Family responded by threatening to break off diplomatic relations with Great Britain. Arms middlemen can't do that. But to what other lengths might they have gone to shut down Mohammed...?
There is an old saying in the Middle East: if you want to hurt someone, hurt the one they love. And if you want to underline the threat, send an exclamation point.
There could have been no more poignant an exclamation point to the threat to Mohammed from those ruthless arms middlemen than that the collateral damage included the death of Diana.
Mohammed will, of course, point the finger at anyone else - I mean, what would the great British public have to say of a man who allowed the "Peoples' Princess" to die because of his sleazy arms past?
Now, do I personally think the crash was a set-up, rather than an accident? All I will say is this: I have a problem believing that a billionaire would hire a drunk to drive his meal-ticket to the British aristocracy...
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