Sure looking like this guy was a MI6 agent and the victim of an intelligence agency hit squad based on the cover story and crap coverage.
"After shooting in France, girl, 4, hid beneath dead kin" by Dan Bilefsky |
New York Times, September 07, 2012
PARIS — Apparently frozen in terror, a 4-year-old girl crouched
silently for eight hours beneath her dead mother and grandmother in the
back of a BMW on a forest road in the French Alps while just steps away
investigators hunted for clues, officials said Thursday.
The discovery of the girl, alive and unharmed, around midnight
Wednesday provided a glimmer of relief after a grisly attack in a wooded
area near the village of Chevaline that left four people dead and a
7-year-old girl — thought to be the 4-year-old’s sister — hospitalized
with a fractured skull. Three of the dead had been shot in the head,
officials said.
Law enforcement officials said the BMW appeared to belong to a
British family who had been vacationing at a campground near Lake
Annecy, a picturesque area in the Alps not far from the Swiss and
Italian borders.
Officials did not release the identities of the victims, but they
said the car was registered to a man who was born in Baghdad in 1962 and
had a British passport. Reuters, quoting an unidentified source,
reported that the man was Saad al-Hilli of Surrey, in southern England.
Investigators said they had uncovered no motive for the killings.
The bodies of the four victims were discovered Wednesday by a British
tourist, a former air force officer who was cycling by and told the
police that he had seen a seriously injured girl lying in front of the
BMW, officials said. Officials said the BMW’s ignition was still on,
suggesting that the attack had just occurred....
The fourth victim, a cyclist found near the car, has been identified
by the French media as Sylvain Mollier, a French father of three in his
40s, who lived a few miles from the scene and was most likely biking by
during the attack....
Sure smells like an intelligence operation.
One theory held that the family had accidentally
disturbed a drug deal....
Oh, now the newspaper is in the business of promoting theories, 'eh?
No arrests were immediately made, and no weapon was found....
Sure smells like an intelligence operation.
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So what is the best cover story the intelligence operation knows as the AmeriKan media can come up with?
"Family dispute investigated in killings in French Alps" by Jamey Keaten |
Associated Press, September 08, 2012
ANNECY, France — French investigators focused Friday on a feud
between brothers as they searched for a motive in the slayings of a
British-Iraqi family vacationing in the French Alps. A French prosecutor
said that the brother of the slain man came to British police of his
own accord Friday to tell them, ‘‘I have no conflict with my brother.’’
I wasn't buying it anyway. How weak.
Prosecutor Eric Maillaud said British police have reported that
50-year-old Saad al Hilli may have been feuding with his brother, Zaid,
over money. But he did not know if this was linked to British media
reports of a possible disputed inheritance. A family friend said the
father of the two men died recently — while public records showed the
brother had left the victim’s small aeronautics design firm....
Curiouser and curiouser, 'eh?
With the killer or killers still at large,
the two children’s security was reinforced Friday.
They seem to have just vanished.
For the first time in nearly two days, police lifted a roadblock
leading to the pitted, single-lane road running along a clear mountain
stream. Broken glass and skid marks marred the small parking area where
the family was found....
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Sunday was big snow day:
"British authorities search home of couple slain in Alps; Authorities seek motive in deaths of 4 adults in car" by Cassandra Vinograd and Greg Keller | Associated Press, September 09, 2012
LONDON — French and British police searched the home in the United Kingdom of a British-Iraqi couple slain while vacationing in the French Alps, as it emerged Saturday that all four people killed in the attack were shot twice in the head. Meanwhile, relatives arrived in France to help care for the couple’s two surviving daughters, one of whom was severely wounded.
Questions remained about potential motive for the killings as well as the identity of one victim, an older woman found dead in the couple’s bullet-riddled BMW. Police have said they are investigating tips of a financial dispute between the slain husband and his brother, but stress they were following all leads. The brother has denied any dispute.
Yeah, sure. When they say that it means they are wrapping up loose ends of the cover story.
The identity of the dead couple — mechanical design engineer Saad al Hilli and his wife, Ikbal — was based partly on the word of their 4-year-old daughter Zeena, who survived unhurt by hiding under her mother’s skirt as some 25 automatic-handgun rounds were fired at the family car.
Her older sister, 7-year-old Zaina, was badly wounded in the attack and lies in a medically-induced coma. Aside from the elderly woman shot to death in the car, French cyclist Sylvain Mollier, 45, whom authorities suspect was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, was also killed in the shooting rampage on Wednesday.
French prosecutor Eric Maillaud, based in Annecy near the site of the killing, told a press conference there Saturday that each of the victims was shot twice in the head — one more time than previously stated — in addition to an undisclosed additional number of times elsewhere.
Autopsies on the bodies were completed late Friday, Maillaud said.
He remained tight-lipped during the news conference, saying he was ‘‘at the limits’’ of what he could publicly disclose. But he confirmed that France has asked Italy and Switzerland to assist in the search for whoever is responsible for the shootings, which took place just a short drive from the borders of both countries.
French investigators arrived in Britain on Friday night, and police took pictures on Saturday of the Hilli home in the village of Claygate, a London suburb in Surrey County. Some officers entered the house in protective suits, while others carried boxes with equipment and evidence bags into an investigation tent set up outside.
Authorities in Britain, too, gave few details. The French police in Surrey spoke only to praise cooperation with their UK counterparts in what they described as a long and complex inquiry.
Surrey’s police force stressed that the investigation is French-led and that the emphasis now is on the victims of the tragedy.
This is REALLY STARTING TO STINK BAD!
Authorities have been reluctant to discuss what prompted the killings, but investigators are looking into a possible family dispute over money.
No one is buying that.
After learning about media reports that they may have been fighting over money, Saad Hilli’s brother Zaid came forward to British police Friday and denied any conflict in the family, French prosecutors said.
But Mae Faisal El-Wailly, a childhood friend of the brothers, made available a letter written to her by Saad last year that alluded to a possible inheritance dispute. She said the brothers’ father had died recently, and she described the family as wealthy.
Oh, well, now I'm convinced my newspaper is telling me the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
But Wailly added that she did not believe Zaid had anything to do with the killings.
‘‘Zaid and I do not communicate any more as he is another control freak and tried a lot of underhanded things even when my father was alive,’’ Saad wrote. The letter was dated Sept. 16, 2011.
‘‘He tried to take control of father’s assets and demanded control,’’ the letter says. “ . . . It is a long story and now I have just had to wipe him out of my life. Sad but I need to concentrate now on my wife and two lovely girls.’’
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"British police search for bomb in house of family targeted in Alps" New York Times, September 11, 2012
CLAYGATE, England — In a further twist to a story of murder and
mystery that has seized headlines for days in France and Britain, police
summoned an army bomb squad Monday to search a workshed at the home of a
British-Iraqi family killed last week in the French Alps.
Houses within 300 feet of the home of the victims, the family of Saad
al-Hilli, in an affluent village within the London commuter belt, were
evacuated during the bomb squad search. The bomb alert ended after four
hours with a police all-clear.
A spokesman for the Surrey County police said the bomb unit had been
requested after ‘‘a potentially explosive substance was found’’ in a
workshed at the rear of the home. But a police statement issued after
the search said nothing hazardous had been found.
The bomb alarm came on the fourth day of a police search of the home
for clues to the killings in France, in which three members of the
family were shot to death. A fourth victim, a French cyclist who
appeared to have encountered the killings while in progress, died in the
bloody episode near the town of Annecy.
French and British police officers have focused on the crime scene in
France and at the Claygate home of the victims — Hilli, 50, his wife,
Iqbal, and her mother, 74....
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I know the authorities must be "scrambling to hunt down leads since the rampage occurred," but that is the last I've seen of the case in my Boston Globe.
Unfortunately, I do not have the time to dig through the AmeriKan media s***, 'er, snow, and investigate further, but you know it when you smell it.
Also see: Nuclear link to French Alps massacre: Murdered Saad al-Hilli worked at top-secret British lab
Saad Al-Hilli Assassinated Over Secret Defence Contract?
An Alpine murder mystery - why were the al-Hillis shot dead?
Wounded girl from Alps massacre told police she saw 'one bad man' before returning to Britain
Another lone gunman, yup.
UPDATE: SAAD AL-HILLI; CHEVALINE ASSASSINATION
