Top British Police Investigator Who Headed Inquiry Into CIA Torture Flights Found Dead at Bottom of Cliff
March 12th, 2008Via: AP:
A city police chief who led an investigation into charges that Britain cooperated with secret CIA flights to transport terrorism suspects without formal proceedings has been found dead, his deputy said Tuesday.
Manchester Chief Constable Michael Todd, 50, was found dead in Snowdonia, about 240 miles northwest of London, Deputy Chief Constable Dave Whatton said. He had been missing since going out for a walk Monday during his day off.
Whatton said the body, which was found Tuesday afternoon, had not yet been formally identified but he believed it was Todd.
He said a coroner’s inquest would investigate the cause of death and did not give any further details.
Todd was elected vice president of the Association of Chief Police Officers of England and Wales in 2006, according to a biography on his Web site.
The association gave him the task of looking into accusations that Britain allowed the CIA to use the country’s airports to fly terrorism suspects to other countries without any extradition hearings, a clandestine procedure known as “extraordinary rendition.”
Todd’s investigation concluded last June that there was no evidence to back the claim. Last month, however, Britain admitted one of its remote outposts in the Indian Ocean had twice been used by the United States as a refueling stop for the secret transfer of two terrorism suspects.
He and his wife had a daughter and twin sons.
I see you didn’t even bother to tag this one with “Coincidence?” Apropos; I mean, Snowdonia? How obvious can they get?
How very David Kelly like.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/aug/01/broadcasting.iraqdossier
My “favorite” coincidental death, this one a suicide by Clifford Baxter.
the story: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/10/eveningnews/main505845.shtml
excerpt “He’d just agreed to testify to Congress in the Enron case.”
but the real scream is the “suicide note”:
http://www.chron.com/content/news/photos/02/04/11/letter/popup2.htm
As you can see, distraught as he was, he took the time to stamp, yes stamp, his full name on it, I guess so his wife, Carol, wouldn’t mix him up with some other “Cliff” with whom she had children. Nice, neat block lettering to, so no one would doubt what was said.
What a pathetic bunch of sheep are the American people…
There’s also the case from 1994 where an RAF Chinook helicopter crashed with almost all the UK’s senior Northern Ireland Intelligence experts on board. Many suspicions still about that one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Scotland_RAF_Chinook_crash
Erm…
Police inspector’s body washed up on exclusive beachfront after he ‘jumped off a ferry’
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23454306-details/Police%20inspector's%20body%20washed%20up%20on%20exclusive%20beachfront%20%20after%20he%20'jumped%20off%20a%20ferry'/article.do
Policeman’s body found in stream
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/7193800.stm