Left wing lunatic George Galloway has announced that he thinks Yugoslav agents killed BBC presenter Jill Dando in 1999:
I’ll tell you who I think it was, now, as I did back then nearly a decade ago.
Just days before Miss Dando was murdered, British war-planes bombed the main television station in Belgrade, then capital of Yugoslavia, murdering 16 people.
It was a brazen and bloody war-crime, denounced by Britain’s journalists union as an assault on journalists everywhere.
The Yugoslavs didn’t have the wherewithal to bomb the BBC in revenge, but they were plenty capable of exacting a price from an individual BBC personality.
In the long and usually quiet cold war, Britain fought to break up Yugoslavia - for nearly 50 years the BBC World Service was a nest of emigres and anti-Yugoslav dissidents fanning the flames of separatism - there were occasional eruptions of Belgrade’s retaliation. One, I recall, in Fife, in which an exiled opponent was gunned down in the streets of the kingdom.
I believe that an agent of the former Yugoslavia gunned down Jill Dando in retaliation for the murder of their television workers.
Some say there would not have been enough time to plan such a crime between the two events (not a point which seems to have occurred to those who pointed the finger at Barry George, who had no time or brain cells to plan it).
But Dando may already have been targeted for her earlier high-profile hosting of a Kosovan fundraising appeal event which turned into an anti-Belgrade jamboree.
In any case, intelligence services, at least those as capable as that of Slobodan Milosovic, are aye ready to kill at the drop of a hat.
Ask the family of Dr David Kelly.
Coincidence = Evidence. The staple of conspiracy nuts everywhere.
Did Dando pay the price for Belgrade bombing? - The Daily Record
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Petar Matovic 08.12.08 at 8:32 pm
since when is evidence necessary in these matters ?
With that attitude , you are far more useful to question the warmongers in Washington, London and Tel Aviv who don’t bother with evidence if they can’t make it up
And by the way, there was another high profile murder years later in Sweden of Anna Lindh, the Swedish foreign minister that was murdered by a serbian immigrant. Anna Lindh was a very high profile visible proponent of attack on Serbia, as fierce as anyone I can remember back in time and even though her killer was driven by a sheer hatred and he picked her up in a shopping center crowd , that murder was quickly described as nothing but a random madman case with no evident connection to her anti serbian activities
limbic 08.14.08 at 9:26 am
Well Petar, for me evidence or a plausible argument is a requirement of belief.
In the case of Anna Lindh, there is plausibility - we know she was killed by a Serb immigrant.
In the case of Dando, there is no such plausibility.
Petar Matovic 08.14.08 at 2:10 pm
We don’t know who killed Dando through investigation or proclamation so anything is possible . We know that her killing came several days after american massacre of 16 serbian journalists and the proposition put away by George Gallway is as good as any and I have very much confidence in his judgement in these matters given his interpretation of events in the balkans as well as middle east where he is much more credible than any mainstream media
Petar Matovic 08.14.08 at 2:32 pm
As for Anna Lindh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Lindh
serbian enemies have no problem accusing any and all serbs for all kinds of things that are often easily disproven , as long as it’s in the “balkan” region . It’s in their interest to disprove that any retaliation might ensue such as in Britain or Sweden . The killer of Anna Lindh was born in Sweden of serbian parents and he was told to be often in Serbia with his family and was perturbed by the attack on Serbia.
I can tell you that I’ve heard of Anna Lindh before she got killed and the fact that the killer picked her out in a busy shopping center tells me it was a premeditadet attack and not a random one. Even in the video stills, the attacker seems pretty calm with heavy clothing to hide his identity.
The Police in Sweden and international media paid no attention to such details however and just put it as a mad man case attacking random people . This tells me that they try to hide the motive and it was really a political murder with premeditation
gumzej 10.19.08 at 12:53 am
Petar Matovic make a mistake. Jill Dando was killed before bombing Belgrade TV
Neil "Mad Bomber" Jones 11.10.08 at 8:41 pm
I had recently tried to contact the following media, The Times Newspaper, The Guardian Newspaper, and the BBC to no avail. I tried to expose the true identity of Jill Dando’s murderer, whose identity has been protected thus far by the British Intelligence Services (MI6), whom must still consider Jill’s killer (a Serbian man), a very valuable asset as he is afforded the protection of a public immunity order.
Since my attempts to expose the truth, I have recently been arrested under the terrorism act, although I have not been charged with terrorism and was released on bail Saturday morning 8/11/08, (I bring to your attention the three people recently arrested in Sheffield, under the terrorism act, whom I am one) I feel that I am now in the process of being discredited by the authorities, and fear possibly worse?
The two other men who know the true identity of Jill’s murderer are both serving 20 year jail sentences in the UK, convicted solely on the statement of the aforementioned Serbian, who did not have to attend court in their trial to be cross examined by their defence, both men are completely innocent!
Strangely enough, the counter terrorist unit visited one of the men in jail as a result of my recent arrest (I am the former bodyguard of this man, hence privy to the truth), For my efforts in trying to expose the truth, I fear that it will not be long before I am joining them in jail courtesy of our own corrupt government, or possibly worse!
It is a shame that although I do not know Jill Dando, I am still prepared to fight the establishment to get justice for Jill’s murder, whereas I feel that the media especially her colleagues in the BBC have let Jill down by doing nothing, I suspect they know more than they are letting on, due to their lack of interest.
Although I consider myself insanely patriotic, and would never do anything to undermine the British establishment, in this instance I feel the government are not acting in the best interest of the British public and they should offer this very dangerous man up for prosecution, regardless of what use he may have to our Intelligence services.