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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Diana's death officially a 'tragic accident'

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LONDON -- A three-year investigation has concluded that the death of Princess Diana in a high-speed car crash in Paris nine years ago was a "tragic accident," not the result of a conspiracy engineered by Britains royal family to murder her and her Egyptian boyfriend.

According to the long-running inquirys official report, published today, Diana and Dodi Fayed died when their drunken chauffeur, Henri Paul, crashed their Mercedes limousine in the French capitals Pont de l'Alma tunnel while trying to outrun a pack of photographers on motorbikes at up to 100 miles an hour on the night of Aug. 31, 1997.

"There was no conspiracy to murder any of the occupants of that car," said former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner John Stevens, who headed the $7 million investigation, code-named Operation Paget. "This was a tragic accident."

However, at a London news conference he called to release the 832-page document, Mr. Stevens conceded that debate will go on without end about how and why the princess, ex-wife of Prince Charles, heir-apparent to the British throne, and her boyfriend, son of the Egyptian owner of one of Londons most prestigious department stores, died that summer evening in Paris.

"I have no doubt that speculation as to what happened that night will continue and that there are some matters, as in many other investigations, about which we may never find a definitive answer," Mr. Stevens said.

A hastily organized opinion poll for the British Broadcasting Corp. suggested that more than three persons out of every 10 in Britain still do not believe it was an accident.

Some puzzles remain, and Mr. Stevens himself alluded to one when he was asked whether, as some news reports had suggested, a U.S. intelligence agency had "bugged" Dianas telephone calls. He sidestepped a direct answer, saying only that the CIA had told his 13-strong team it had "no records" that would assist their investigation.

Distinctly unhappy with what he described as the Stevens inquirys "unbelievable judgment" was Dodi Fayeds father, Mohamed al-Fayed, who since the crash has claimed that his son and Diana were murdered by British secret agents because their relationship was an embarrassment to the royal family.

Mr. al-Fayed pinned the blame for their deaths directly on Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth IIs husband, who he said ordered intelligence services to carry out the killings because Diana was pregnant with his sons baby and the royals feared the possibility of a Muslim baby in their family tree.

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