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From: Jonathan Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [TW] The racist tirade continues The Evening Standard 8 June 2001
Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2001, 9:10 am
The headlines in the paper edition were even worse. This rag continues its
anti-Serb crusade, along with its sister paper The Mail with its notorious
headline the day after the murder "The Serbs Did It!". They have yet to
apologize.
JDK
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/top_story.html?in_review_id=39861
5&in_review_text_id=345819
Serb 'link' to Dando killing
BBC personalities and executives received death threats within days of
presenter Jill Dando's murder, apparently from Serbian terrorists, the Old
Bailey heard today.
The terrorists were said to be unhappy with the corporation's coverage of
the Balkan conflict, the Dando murder trial jury was told. Police also
received intelligence that Miss Dando's death was a contract killing ordered
by Serbian freedom fighter Arkan after security surrounding his initial
target Sir John Birt - then BBC director-general - was stepped up.
Jurors heard how Crimewatch UK host Miss Dando, 37, led a humanitarian
appeal on television on behalf of Kosovan refugees only two weeks before her
murder. Days after the appeal Nato bombed a TV centre in the Serbian capital
Belgrade, killing 17 staff. Some of their funerals were due to take place on
the day Miss Dando was shot dead on her doorstep in Gowan Avenue, Fulham.
Michael Mansfield QC, representing Barry George who is accused of Miss
Dando's murder, suggested police had not taken the numerous death-threat
phone calls to the BBC seriously. However, the officer in charge of the
case, Detective Superintendent Hamish Campbell, told jurors today, day 23 of
George's trial: "This whole concept has been seriously misconstrued."
Miss Dando's three-minute BBC2 appeal on 6 April 1999 was watched by an
audience of around six million and may have been interpreted by the Serbians
as "running against their policy", said Mr Mansfield. Nato's cruise missile
attack on the TV centre, which was run by former Yugoslav president Slobodan
Milosevic's family, happened a week later, while Miss Dando was killed on 26
April.
The day after her death, the BBC Television Centre in London received an
anonymous call from someone with an Eastern European accent, said Mr
Mansfield. The caller said her murder was in retaliation for the Belgrade
bombing and that Tony Hall, the BBC's head of news, would be next. Mr
Jill Dando:"Died to avenge bombing�, jury told
Mansfield read a transcript of the call to jurors: "Yesterday, I called to
tell you to add a few more numbers to the list because your Government, in
particular your Prime Minister Tony Blair, murdered and butchered 17
innocent young people who worked as make-up artists and technician
engineers.
"You butcher, we butcher back. The first one was yesterday. The next one
will be Tony Hall."
The court heard that the same caller is believed to have contacted the BBC
centre in Belfast the next day, saying: "You at the BBC are the voice of
your Government - that's why your reporter is dead, because your Government
killed 17 innocent people."
Mr Mansfield said there were numerous other phone calls which named several
BBC personalities as potential assassination targets, but their names were
not revealed today. Mr Campbell told the court he had not listened to the
recordings but knew that the caller had never been traced. However, he
admitted being shown a police intelligence report titled "Arkan ordered
Dando hit".
The National Criminal Intelligence Service report which was read to jurors,
said: "Jill Dando was the subject of a Serbian hitman. Intelligence sources
suggest as a result of the bombing on the Serbian TV centre...a contract was
put out on the head of the BBC's John Birt.
"As a result of him receiving threatening letters his security was stepped
up. After this the target was changed to Jill Dando. The hit was ordered by
Arkan, leader of the Tigers, and a Yugoslavian hitman arrived to the UK from
Germany via France using a ferry." Mr Mansfield also reminded jurors that
the bullet recovered outside Miss Dando's home had been "crimped" by hand -
a technique typically used by Eastern European military.
He asked Mr Campbell: 'There was a lot of material probative of a motive,
wasn't there?" The officer replied: 'There is also a wealth of material
leading to a lot of other possibilities. I would disagree that Yugoslavia
had anything to do with Jill Dando's death." Unemployed George, 41, of
Fulham, denies murder.
The trial continues.
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