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| The Strange Death of David Kelly | 
 enlarge | Author: Norman Baker
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 28117
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 1842752170
EAN: 9781842752173
ASIN: 1842752170
Publication Date: October 8, 2007
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 Excellent, despite a few tangents. August 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had a personal, if tenuous link with the Kelly affair, as I worked with one of the governors of the BBC at the time.
This should be a school textbook, to rid our society of the belief that governments always act in favour of and to protect their people. History shows us this is not true, and such events will continue into the future.
A brilliant piece of work, even if Mr. Baker sometimes ventures into topics he knows little about (see the section about a tall police mast!)
My indignation and disgust at what happened has been rekindled, and I will now join in the effort to discover the truth. I would encourage everyone else to do the same. Government represents the people, not the establishment. They would do well to remember that from time to time.
 A better book could and should have been written July 10, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The mix of conjecture and facts and the alarming quickness to make a truth from two half truths spoils what could have been a work of considerable weight. The thoroughness of the research is supported by the numbers of people interviewed and spoken with but real facts and real testimony from real people who have real knowledge is thin on the ground. The failure to interview the family is an omission which is difficult to explain. This is obviously a work of considerable effort but the extraction of pointed probabilities from general statistics and in some areas the flawed research (the usage and purpose of the police transmitter for example) spoil it and leave me doubting the intention and conclusion of the author.
Raises good grounds for disquiet July 7, 2008
Norman Baker reviews all the details he can find of the death, and apart from David Kelly's immediate family, has interviewed everyone he could who was in any way connected.
He raises very good grounds for finding the circumstances of death extremely suspicious, and then demonstrates that Dr. Kelly's death was never properly investigated, and no inquest into it was ever done. The public enquiry did not examine the circumstance of the death with the kind of legal rigour and procedures of a proper inquest.
Baker is sceptical and suspicious of just about everyone involved, and especially of various conspiracy theorists who plague him from time to time. However, there are things about this particular death that warrant a proper investigation, which has not yet been done. Baker comes up with a "best guess" theory, and suggests a possible group of murderers, but he admits that it is very hard to say for sure what happened. It is only possible to be sure that the death has not been properly investigated.
The evidence he presents to discount the theory of suicide is particularly convincing.
This is a good book, and an important one, but it is regrettably unlikely that the full truth will ever become known, certainly not for quite some while.
 A good book which peters out badly... April 15, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Let me say at the beginning that I admire Norman Baker greatly for taking on this research and writing the book. It is a good read but...
I had no doubt from the moment that David Kelly was found dead that he had been murdered. The suicide story was an utter sham. However almost the entire book from Mr Baker leads him to this conclusion. So who was responsible for the murder then? I hate to say it, as I admire Mr Baker and think he's an excellent MP, but he bottles it and concludes it is an Iraqi circle who did it. After 20 chapters, where the evidence comes from to reach this conclusion is impossible to fathom.
Mr Baker presents so much evidence to implicate the UK government and its devil incarnates MI5 and MI6 but then seems to dismiss their involvement with a few sentences along the lines of "the British wouldn't do that!". A cursory examination of what the UK has done in this world in the past 100 years would suggest utter naievety on Mr Baker's part, which he actually admits to in the Epilogue.
David Kelly was murdered on the order of the UK government.
Essential reading for anyone interested in the war and its shady environs March 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When the death of David Kelly was announced in Canada (this was a worldwide story), it was reported that he had been found murdered in the woods near his home. Interesting huh? (Here, obviously, it was 'suicide')
Norman Baker has added to the growing list of excellent work that picks away at the weak and shabby foundations to the appaling misadventure that is the Iraq war.
So who did kill David Kelly? Norman Baker doesn't know, but he does make it abundantly clear that the Hutton Inquiry certainly wasn't going to find out, either through incompetence or deliberate evasion of the truth.
Well done, Mr Baker, for having the guts to enter this very murky world and for putting the sorry affair down in black and white where we can all see it. It's this kind of clinical investigation into what we're not supposed to investigate, rather than war, that helps to keep us free.
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