Accidente Curiosamente Similar a la de Diana de Gales

Píldora: Durante la audiencia que se lleva a cabo en Londres por la muerte de la Princesa Diana de Gales en 1997 surgió el testimonio de un agente del MI6 (servicio secreto exterior inglés) sobre los planes para asesinar a un líder de los balcanes a comienzos de los `90. Lo curioso que surge es la gran similitud entre ese plan de asesinato y lo que le aconteció finalmente al automóvil de Diana. El agente "no nombrado" comentó como se preveía un atentado en un túnel y se le mostraron luces estroboscópicas para cegar al conductor y lograr que este se estrellase. ¡Ah!, las coincidencias.

MI6 plot detailed at Diana inquest
13/02/2008

An MI6 officer confirmed he drew up detailed plans to assassinate a top Balkan leader suspected of genocide to prevent him coming to power, a British court heard.

The admission from an unnamed agent emerged in the unlikely setting of the Diana, Princess of Wales, inquest at the High Court in London.

During evidence from disaffected former spy Richard Tomlinson, counsel to the inquest Nicholas Hilliard revealed that the man named only as "A" had confirmed he drew up the assassination plan for MI6 around 1993.

Mr Hilliard said A had described the document as a "contingency plan" to kill the man in question should he come to power, but added that the agent had been told it was out of the question by his superiors. Although it was not confirmed who MI6 considered assassinating, the court heard that it was specifically not Slobodan Milosevic.

The revelation is likely to provoke speculation over whether MI6 was considering an attack on a figure such as feared Serbian warlord Arkan who was eventually gunned down in January 2000. There is no suggestion MI6 was involved.

Mr Tomlinson was called as a witness to the Diana and Dodi inquest after he told a French magistrate that the crash in Paris on August 31, 1997 in which the Princess died, bore an "eerie similarity" to a plan he had seen when he worked for the organisation in the 1990s.

He claimed he had been shown a document around 1992 which detailed three options for killing Mr Milosevic, justified by his "destabilising" plans for a greater Serbia, covert support for Radovan Karadzic and suspected genocidal ambitions towards the Albanian population of Kosovo.

Mr Tomlinson claimed in his book The Big Breach - published after his dismissal from the service - that the options outlined included staging a crash in a tunnel involving a blinding flash of light from a strobe gun while Mr Milosevic was at a peace conference in Geneva, the court heard.

But the jury was told that in an earlier draft of the book he had spoken instead of a drive-by ambush.

The court heard that Mr Tomlinson, who was recruited by MI6 in 1991 after studying at Cambridge, told a Scotland Yard team investigating Diana's death: "MI6 do have a capacity to stage accidents whether by helicopter, aeroplane or car and also that the strobe light was shown to us by the SBS at Poole during our training."