tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post55177174552366616..comments2023-10-02T15:01:43.213+01:00Comments on Chilcot's Cheating Us: The Death of David Kelly - His attitude to suicideAndrew Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03829322263100808179noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-8793797772310408392011-11-04T09:14:27.544+00:002011-11-04T09:14:27.544+00:00Andrew, another scientist to doubt strongly that D...Andrew, another scientist to doubt strongly that Dr Kelly would commit suicide was Professor Sergei Rybakov, quoted in <a href="http://thewe.cc/contents/more/archive2003/august/russian_colleague_doubts_kelly_committed_suicide.htm" rel="nofollow">The Moscow Times.com, 13 August 2003</a> <br /><b>Russian Colleague Doubts Kelly Committed Suicide<br /></b> by Anna Dolgov.<br /><i>But Professor Sergei Rybakov, who served as a UN weapons expert and Kelly's immediate subordinate in Iraq in 1996 and 1998, said the microbiologist was an unlikely person to have killed himself. "Judging by his character ... I was very surprised to hear it was suicide," Rybakov said from the city of Vladimir, where he heads a rare disease laboratory at the Research Institute for Animal Protection. "And what really happened there, the investigation will show."<br /><br />Rybakov recalled that Kelly was optimistic and even-tempered, never losing his cool even in the pressure of working on a team that could not always communicate well in the same language.<br /><br />"Whatever happened, David always remained an equanimous and friendly person. In my view, such as person is not capable of committing suicide," Rybakov told Izvestia. "I can't imagine what could have happened to him during the past five years, during which time I haven't seen him. But it's unlikely that a person can change so much that he would solve his problems by suicide." <br /><br />Rybakov said UN inspectors scrutinized all Iraqi facilities that could have been used for producing biological weapons and searched for any traces of such a program, but found nothing.<br /><br />"The checkups of Iraqi objects were particularly thorough," Rybakov told Izvestia. "But we never found any confirmation that Iraq was continuing to make biological weapons or had preserved its arsenal."<br /><br />Russia has strongly criticized the U.S.-led military campaign in Iraq, and Rybakov said justifying it with fears that Hussein had stocked up on weapons of mass destruction was unfounded.<br /><br />"When that war was being prepared -- and there was a big dispute whether it should be started or not -- I was certain, and I told all my friends and relatives, that the war was being started for nothing, that they would not find anything there," Rybakov said on Channel One<br /></i>felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-38672416986217012502011-04-22T00:17:14.538+01:002011-04-22T00:17:14.538+01:00Andrew,
I think you are right - just an inrrelevan...Andrew,<br />I think you are right - just an inrrelevant coincidence, but an interesing one.<br /><br />Professor Hay also is quoted in the Independent on <a href="http://www.realnews247.com/bit_by_bit_the_real_dr_kelly_emerges_from_the_shadows.htm" rel="nofollow">27 July 2003</a> before the Hutton inquiry gets under way.<br /><br /><i>His friend and fellow weapons expert Alistair Hay, whose wife committed suicide, believes the scientist felt deeply isolated.<br /><br />"It wasn't as if the MoD were saying, 'You're our man, we're supporting you to the hilt'," said Professor Hay. "He was being fed to everyone as being the person probably responsible for the Government's difficulty ... If he felt he had been less than truthful before the committee ... [and] had been caught dissembling and not being absolutely truthful, I would have thought this would create huge conflicts for him."<br /><br /></i>felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-48645869635843407572011-04-20T10:43:22.862+01:002011-04-20T10:43:22.862+01:00Felix,
One possibility is that the Hutton Inquiry...Felix,<br /><br />One possibility is that the Hutton Inquiry didn't think it relevant.<br /><br />Another possibility is that Hutton deliberately concealed the fact due, hypothetically, to Roger Avery being the longstanding friend whose mother had committed suicide.Andrew Watthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03829322263100808179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-73220843099068993252011-04-20T07:36:56.313+01:002011-04-20T07:36:56.313+01:00My feeling is that they were both students at Leed...My feeling is that they were both students at Leeds University in the same year (or perhaps one year removed) .<a href="http://www.vetmed.vt.edu/org/dbsp/faculty/avery.asp" rel="nofollow">Professor Roger Avery</a> (born 1944) studied Biochemistry at Leeds , whilst Dr Kelly (born 1944) studied Microbiology. <br /><br />I fail to understand why their Undergraduate coincidence was concealed at the Hutton Inquiry.felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363991252776819712noreply@blogger.com