“I started calling him in London because at this time I was expecting his arrival in a day. I called his private line, but there was no answer. So then I called the secretary and asked to speak to him and she wouldn’t put me on. So Mohamed got on and in so many horrible words told me to never call back again. I said ‘He’s my fiancee, what are you talking about?’ He hung up on me and I called back and the secretary said don’t ever call here again, your calls are no longer to be put through. It was so horrible.”37 Ironically, Diana used to have Kensington Palace swept for listening devices and now she was in the clutches of a man for whom bugging was an obsession. The Al Fayed villa in San Tropez was bugged, as were all Fayed properties. Everything Diana said could be heard. Bob Loftus, the former Head of Security at Harrods, said that the bugging there was “A very extensive operation” and was also always under the direction of Al Fayed.38 Henry Porter, the London Editor of the magazine Vanity Fair, had spent two years investigating Al Fayed and he said they came across his almost obsessive use of eavesdropping devices to tape telephone calls, bug rooms, and film people. Through mutual friends, Porter warned Diana about Al Fayed’s background and activities “Because we thought this was quite dangerous for her for obvious reasons”39 But Diana apparently felt she could handle it and although she knew Al Fayed could “Sometimes be a rogue”, he was no threat to her, she thought. He is rather more than a rogue and rather more often than ‘sometimes’. She apparently told friends: “I know he’s naughty, but that’s all”. The Dispatches programme said they had written evidence that Al Fayed bugged the Ritz Hotel and given his background and the deals that are hatched at the Ritz, it would be staggering if he did not. Kelly Fisher said that the whole time she was in Fayed property she just assumed everything was bugged. It was known, she said, and Dodi had told her everywhere was bugged. She went on: “As a matter of fact, when I confronted him about Diana, he said: ‘I can’t talk to you on the phone’. He said ‘I’ll talk to you in LA’. I knew what that•421 meant”. Diana was under the ‘protection’ of the Al Fayed security machine and even her most private conversations were being monitored. Diana went with Dodi to Al Fayed’s Elizabethan-style mansion called Barrow Green Court at Oxted in Surrey, formerly owned by the Satanist Lord McAlpine. Throughout the house Al Fayed had placed statues of semi-naked Greek goddesses. On August 21st, despite Henry Porter’s warning, Diana returned again to San Tropez for another holiday with Dodi. Al Fayed was milking the situation, briefing journalists and photographers and enlisting the advice of publicist Max Clifford.40 The Al Fayed machine was leaking the couple’s whereabouts to ensure maximum publicity. Al Fayed complained after the crash that photographers and journalists would not leave the Princess alone, a statement which, in the circumstances, beggars belief. The Diana-Dodi romance was now in full swing and Al Fayed was urging his son to intensify the relationship.41 And what Al Fayed said, Dodi did. Nothing was left to chance. Diana’s favourite music, the theme from The English Patient, was played over and over as the couple cruised on The Jonikal. Diana and Dodi had much in common. Both had been born into wealthy families and their fathers were distant figures. Both had experienced the breakdown of their parents’ marriages as their mothers left home. They even attended finishing schools close to each other in Switzerland. But we should not rule out the possibility of mind manipulation techniques being used on both parties. I have met a number of former mind controlled slaves who were programmed to fall madly in love with someone they normally would not even like and there are endless examples of ‘love spells’ concocted by black magicians to cause someone to fall madly in love with them. My scientist friend, Brian Desborough, tells me that the feeling of being in love is dependent upon the brain producing phenylethylamine. This is a chemical which also diminishes the ability to discriminate effectively, hence the term ‘love is blind’. Production of this chemical is sustained by the release of endorphins, a naturally occurring chemical linked to memory, learning, pain suppression, sex drive and hormone regulation. If these chemicals could be stimulated in both parties they would fall instantly in love. I think there is a very good chance that something like this happened as the sting was set up for both of them. There was talk of engagement in the air, but it is impossible to say how imminent that was, because reports conflict. I have great doubts about that myself. Diana and Dodi left the South of France from Olbia Airport at 1.3Opm on August 30th bound for Paris on Al Fayed’s Gulfstream jet. They apparently intended to stay one night at Dodi’s apartment, which looks out on the Arc de Triomphe, before going on to London where Diana was due to meet her sons. It was to be her last full day alive. The plane touched down at Le Bourget Airport in Paris at 3.2Opm and they were met by 20 or so celebrity photographers known as the paparazzi (from an Italian word meaning ‘buzzing insects’). A Mercedes was waiting for the party and a green Range Rover was to follow on behind. This is normal security procedure and the very minimum you would expect to protect someone so globally famous. With Diana and Dodi in the Mercedes was Dodi’s bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, the 29-year-old former member of the elite British military regiment, the Paras or Parachute Regiment. Along with the SAS, the Paras are the most highly trained (and therefore mind controlled) regiment in the British forces. In the Range Rover were the driver, Henri Paul, the acting Head of Security at the Ritz, and another bodyguard, Kes Wingfield. They drove from the airport to the Villa Windsor on the Bois de Boulogne, the former home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Duke and Duchess lived there after the duke, as King Edward VIII, abdicated the British throne when the government and establishment would not accept his marriage to the America divorcee, Wallis Simpson. They then moved to Paris as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Their house is now owned by Mohamed Al Fayed and it is said that he was going to give it to Dodi and Diana as a wedding present. This talk of a wedding, however, is unsubstantiated, much as Al Fayed has sought to promote it. His publicity machine led the public to believe the couple had spent time at Villa Windsor discussing decor, but the bodyguard Kes Wingfield said that they only stayed there for “Around ten minutes”.42 From here they were driven to the Ritz Hotel where they arrived at 4.20pm. The Ritz is in the Place Vendome and all around that square at first floor level are symbols of the Sun and the cross, very much like the symbols used by the ancients to symbolise the ‘journey’ of the Sun through the year which I featured earlier in the book. This was the symbol of King Louis XIV, who was known as the ‘Sun King’. At his palace at Versailles in the 17th century he decorated rooms in honour of Apollo, the Sun god, and Diana, the goddess of the Moon. There was also a statue of the goddess Diana at Versailles. In the centre of the Vendome Square is an immense pillar with a statue of Napoleon on the top and it mirrors the famous Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square, London. At this stage Diana still had the same level of security that she’d had since the airport, but this could have been increased considerably if support from the French High Protection Police Security Service (SPHP) had been requested. It is there to protect VIPs visiting the city, but a request for their services must be made. It wasn’t. All Diana’s security was provided by Al Fayed’s people from start to finish. If they had enlisted the protection of the French police, Diana would still be alive. When a celebrity like Madonna visits Paris, the French Police have one car in front of hers and another behind, together with two motorcycle riders front and back of the motorcade. The cars are driven by trained drivers and they carry armed security men. According to reports, the SPHP made three, possibly four, offers to protect Diana, but each one was refused by Dodi. Was he, himself, under instruction to reject these offers from someone to whom he could not say no? An officer of the SPHP told Dodi: “If you will not use our car, we recommend that two police cars accompany you on your excursions around the city.”43 This advice, too, was ignored. Diana and Dodi went straight to the $6,000 a night 18th century Imperial Suite at the Ritz. From there, Diana rang her friend, the Daily Mail journalist Richard Kay. She told him she intended to retire from public life in November and he said that he had never heard her so happy. The couple booked a table at the Chez Benoit restaurant for 8.45pm and they intended to spend the night at Dodi’s apartment. At 6.3Opm Dodi went across the Place Vendome to a jewellers, Repossi, to buy a diamond ring for Diana which was later delivered to the Ritz. A little after 7 pm, the couple were driven in the Mercedes along the Champs Elysees to Dodi’s apartment on Rue Arsene-Houssaye close to the Arc de Triomphe. Here they unpacked and prepared for dinner. Again the back up Range Rover was there and so was another car carrying bodyguards for added protection. Why was this level of security thought necessary in the early evening, but not in the early hours of the morning at the time of the crash? Dodi’s apartment is known as the ‘Etoile flat’ after the Place de L’Etoile, the ‘Sun or star circle’ road around the Arc de Triomphe. The route they took to the apartment was out of the Place Vendome onto the Rue de Rivoli, and half way around the Place de la Concorde they turned right onto the Champs Elysees and drove straight up that famous avenue to Dodi’s apartment (see Figure 52). Remember that route, it is crucially important. As they arrived at the apartment at 7.1 5pm, bodyguards were seen to rush from their car to hold back six paparazzi. Diana and Dodi became concerned about eating at the unprotected Chez Benoit restaurant and decided to head back to the Ritz to eat. They took the same route back, down the Champs Elysees and around the Place de la Concorde. The couple, with bodyguards Wingfield and Rees-Jones, walked into the Ritz, captured by the now famous video pictures, at 9.47pm. As the paparazzi gather in numbers outside, amid rumours of an engagement announcement, Diana has already started the last three hours of her life. Who was feeding the rumours and the whereabouts of Diana during the day to create the paparazzi stampede that dominated Diana and Dodi’s movements and decisions that night? I think I can guess, somehow. Al Fayed. And who were some of these ‘paparazzi’ making life uncomfortable for Diana, thus changing the plans for the evening? The Ritz security video also identified a number of people who had been outside among the onlookers for most of the day and were still there on the edge of the crowd.44 Now the plot seriously thickens. After speaking on the phone with his father at his estate in Oxted, Surrey, Dodi Fayed announced a quite ludicrous plan. To avoid the paparazzi, the Mercedes which had been transporting them all day together with the back up Range Rover were to be taken around the front of the hotel and used as a decoy for the paparazzi. At the same time another Mercedes would be brought around to the back entrance of the hotel to whisk the couple away to the apartment on the Champs Elysees. Henri Paul, the 41-year-old acting head of security at the Ritz, was called on his mobile phone by Dodi and told to report back to the hotel. He went off duty at 7pm and by the time he returned it was 10pm. No-one has established where Paul was in those three hours. Dodi said that his father, Mohamed Al Fayed, had personally authorised that Henri Paul should drive the Mercedes. For me, that is Dodi-speak for “My father told me this is how it is going to be”. Henri Paul was not a qualified chauffeur and had no hire car permit. L. Fletcher Prouty, a former colonel in the US Airforce who worked closely with the intelligence agencies, once said: “No-one has to direct an assassination - it happens. The active role is played secretly by permitting it to happen. This is the greatest single clue. Who has the power to call off or reduce the usual security precautions?”45 Absolutely right. If we apply Prouty’s rule to Diana and ask who had the power -and used that power - to reduce the usual security precautions for her that night, we have a rather interesting answer: Mohamed Al Fayed. Given these circumstances he must answer the obvious question: Why was this security reduced? When President Kennedy was assassinated, there were no bodyguards standing on his car while four were standing on the one immediately behind (see picture section). He was also in an open-topped car at a dangerous time in a dangerous city. When Martin Luther King was shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4th, 1968, the black police officer in charge of security for King was sent home against his will hours before the shooting. The only two black firemen at the station next to the motel were sent to other stations just for that day. The scapegoat for this assassination was a guy called James Earl Ray. Not even King’s family believed he was responsible. So much so that they attended his funeral a few years ago. When Bobby Kennedy was murdered after making a speech at the Ambassadors Hotel in Los Angeles on June 4th 1968, again the security arrangements were tampered with. The plan was for Kennedy to walk off the stage and through the crowd to the exit. But immediately after the speech, Kennedy’s ‘aides’, especially Frank Mankiewicz, insisted that it was safer for him to go out through the hotel kitchen. When he walked into the kitchen he was met by the mind controlled Sirhan Sirhan with a gun in his hand. It is far more•425 likely that Bobby Kennedy was actually shot by members of his ‘security’ team, particularly Thane Eugene Caesar, the ‘security guard’ who was employed at the last minute and had endless connections into far right groups and the intelligence community. But with Sirhan Sirhan at the scene with a gun, they had a mind controlled scapegoat to take the rap and that was all they needed. Sirhan Sirhan had been on a ‘mind expansion’ course with the Rosicrucians in the weeks before he was implicated in Kennedy’s death (see .. .And The Truth Shall Set You Free). Frank Mankiewicz, who guided Kennedy to the kitchen, was a former public relations man for the Mossad-front in America, the Anti Defamation League. He turned up later as head of publicity for the Oliver Stone film, JFK, which claimed to be an expose of the assassination of President Kennedy. It wasn’t. When the Israeli Prime Minister, Zitzhak Rabin, was shot dead by an assassin in Tel Aviv in 1995, an extraordinary video taken by an onlooker showed how Rabin’s security detail stepped back in unison to leave the assassin alone and free to kill his target. You can see the pattern. And what happened in the crucial last minutes of Diana’s life? They withdrew her security on the orders of Mohamed Al Fayed via his son. That is a fact. All day she had travelled in the same Mercedes with the Range Rover as a back up vehicle. Now she would transfer to another Mercedes with no back up support whatsoever. This was an extraordinary decision for a man obsessed with his own security. Bob Loftus, the former Head of Security at Harrods, said: “Compared with the protection that Al Fayed affords himself, which is very professional, of a very high standard, that which was afforded to the mother of the future King of England was a Mickey Mouse operation.”46 He added that “Al Fayed was absolutely paranoid about his personal protection”. Just for him to walk around his own store, there would be three or four plain clothes members of his personal protection team who travelled with him all the time, plus another four uniformed security who would act almost as ‘outriders’ to create two rings of security around him. That’s in his own store! But is it paranoia, or the knowledge of the seedy, cesspit, world of arms dealers and Brotherhood fixers of many kinds, in which Al Fayed constantly operates? People who think nothing of the mass murder of children, let alone the assassination of a wealthy ‘yes’ man like him. Dodi Fayed was obsessed with his security for the same reason. A lot of this security was also inspired by the size of Al Fayed’s ego, to be fair. Mostly he recruited his body guards from the SAS and the Parachute Regiment and used the Brotherhood operation, Control Risks, to make recommendations. Tom Bower tells in his book about Al Fayed of how armed guards at the Oxted estate hide behind bushes wearing full combat uniform and blacked out faces. Whenever Al Fayed travelled in his Mercedes there was always a back up Range Rover carrying emergency medical equipment and security staff, but now he withdrew that protection from Diana. More than that, a new car was introduced for her, another Mercedes was sent to the rear entrance of the Ritz, supplied by a car hire company called Etoile Limousines, the same name as Dodi’s flat. Etoile Limousines is•426 based at the Ritz and depends for its entire income on contracts with the hotel and its guests. In other words, it is controlled completely by Mohamed Al Fayed and whoever controls him. The new Mercedes was an S-280, lighter in weight than the 600 series they had used all day and without the dark tinted windows. Other cars were available, but this one was chosen instead. A director of Etoile, Niels Siegel, told the inquiry into Diana’s death that he delivered the car to the rear entrance of the Ritz, but the Dispatches programme showed that this is a lie. It was delivered by a driver called Frederic Lucard and he can be seen doing so on the security video. Lucard said he found it very strange that Etoile would allow Henri Paul, a man not qualified as a chauffeur, to drive one of their cars. So why did they do it? Because Mohamed Al Fayed told them to, that’s why. Brian Dodd, the former Head of Security for Al Fayed in the 1980s, gave his assessment of the situation to Dispatches: _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://messenger.msn.co.uk