Kelly`s Baha`i mentor `denies being US spy`
IRNA
London, Sept 10, IRNA -- An American woman, serving in the US Air Force, is expected to make a statement Thursday about her relationship with David Kelly in which she is likely about whether she had her own theory about the former Iraq arms inspector`s death. According to the Times newspaper Wednesday, Mai Pederson, who is said to have introduced Kelly to Baha`ism has hired a leading lawyer, Mark Zaid, following reports that she may be called to give evidence to the inquiry into his alleged suicide on July 18. British press reports have suggested that the 43-year-old Pederson, who met the former arms inspector during two UN missions to Iraq five years ago, is a spy for the US air force. But the Times said that Zaid denied claims she was a spy and said he would be issuing a statement on Thursday in which she was likely to talk about reports whether she had a theory about Kelly`s death. Pederson, a multi-linguist Arab-American, was reported to have suggested that foul play may have been involved when she told a friend not to believe what was written in the newspapers. The death of Kelly, which is being investigated following claims that he was the source of a BBC report accusing the UK government of exaggerating Iraq`s arms threat, has sparked the imagination of conspiracy theorists around the world. Hundreds of thousands of websites have been dedicated to discussing the circumstances surrounding the demise of former weapons expert, who worked as an adviser to the British Defense Ministry. According to research carried out by the Guardian newspaper, Google internet search engine returned 235,000 results for a search on "who killed David Kelly?", 103,000 for "David Kelly conspiracy" and 39,200 for links relating to whether Kelly was murdered. Some of the theories on website networks stretching from the UK and the US across Europe to Australia have included writers expressing concern about the reported suspicious circumstances on the deaths of other microbiologists. In one of the latest, editor of Jane`s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense Weekly, John Eldridge, reportedly told a national newspaper that there was a link between Kelly`s death and that senior researcher Ian Langford, who was found dead at his home last year. The walls of Langford`s living room in Norwich, eastern England, were covered in blood when his body was found in February 2002, but tests concluded he died from natural causes and an inquest never took place. HC/216 End
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