Noah posted a response which, in part, reads as follows:

"I don't get it. Fayed goes to the Feds immediately and ruins a chance to get to the bottom of it. If he believes he was being set up for buying classified information then why go along at all?"

If, as has been suggested, Mohammed Al Fayed understands the ins and outs of British and American intelligence, then it was probably his estimate of the situation vis-a-vis the London CIA operation. There are those who believe that this station is not and has not been loyal to the United States for a long time.

"Playing boy scout did not get him closer to the truth instead he got leads and then burnt them by turning them over to the Feds and keeping his $20,000,000."

A man in his position has assets and abilities that the average person does not have, and one thing has been consistent and true during the Clinton years (and, in fact, beginning in the Bush years after Reagan). Money is the grease which makes things operate -- and the lack of money is the cause of a whole lot of squeaking and whining.

Al Fayed could not be dispossessed of his properties or his business interests in any normal way, but if he -- as a person who is not a "citizen of the United Kingdom" or whatever it really is, under their law -- was accused of espionage or of aiding and abetting terrorists, he could lose all ... everything.

"Sounds like to me he never intended to pay the money, and now he thinks he is going to get the U.S. to rollover on a foia request and civil suit??"

That is by far the worst possible way to look at it. Only by getting this controversy into the public view, and that means by getting it into a court somewhere that he might have some rights, can Al Fayed protect what is his and sort out the conflicting lies and the royalist spin. Remember, he follows Islam and if he exacts revenge or seeks justice, it must be "an eye for an eye" unless there is a conciliation and the payment of an indemnity.

"He has a lot of skeletons in the closet, and with the Bush clan on the scene and prepared to take over do you really believe he is going to get what he wants???"

Nothing succeeds like persistence.

"He knows LeWinter et al were not hoaxing him; because why piss [off] U.S. intelligence and spend millions on a lawsuit if it was all a big con??"

People in the United States understand very well that perjury is a serious crime and that it can be punished rather severely. If Al Fayed considers that the CIA station in London is completely compromised, or a wholly-owned operation of the royal family, is there a better way to exert pressure on the malefactors than by filing a civil suit? He has to have been receiving some real behind-the-scenes encouragements. The tabloid press here in the U.S. has been consolidated in recent months, and their various publications are no longer in actual competition with each other.

They have, however, repeatedly carried a variety of stories which actively and assertively "stick forks" into 'the drunken Henri' cover story spun out by the royalist cadres loyal to Elizabeth II. One of these stories was carried in the June 27th issue of the National Examiner -- "Owner Of White Fiat Found Dead."

It refers to Jean-Paul "James" Andanson, 54, a photographer with the Sipa Agency. He was among the papparazzi who pursued Dodi and Princess Di while they were on holiday in the week before they died. He owned a white Fiat like the one suspected in that crash, but he was not in Paris on August 31st and his car, which he sold to a scrap yard only one month after the assassination, was tested (and cleared, according to the Examiner), for paint.

He left his home on May 4th, after contacting Sipa to request that his pending photographic fees be paid to his wife -- from whom he was estranged. His body was found hundreds of miles from his home, burned beyond recognition in a red BMW, very soon afterwards. It took the authorities a month to identify his remains. It has been said that Andanson was familiar with the latest digital imaging equipment and technology, and may have known too much for his own good, concerning Diana and Dodi.

It certainly seems like he was a man who was prepared to die, and was trying to deflect any danger from the woman or the people he loved ... even if she or they no longer loved him.

What remains to be done now, is to cross-check the list of those who died on Swissair 111, when it crashed into the cold waters of Peggy's Cove, two years ago at this time. Find a link between any one of those people to Andanson and that might turn up another link and another ... etc. Walking the cat backwards.

Did someone exact a murderous retribution for the deaths of Dodi and Diana, in taking that plane down? What caused the pilots' cabin to fill with smoke when there was no apparent fire? And, has anyone noticed that Lloyd's of London has filed with the Canadian government, to seek salvage of the diamonds and other valuables carried on Flight 111 and which -- it is presumed -- are still in the water? What of the cash and the Picasso?

Many of the bodies of the people who perished on Swissair 111 have not yet been recovered, and will most likely never be found, yet Lloyd's is sufficiently concerned about the missing diamonds to spend their own money to try to find them. That should tell us precisely what value is set on human life for those who call themselves "royals," in the house of Windsor and among their allies. That includes any and all rogue agents who might be drawing their pay from the U.S. government but who are no longer loyal to it, to us, or to the Constitution which they were sworn to preserve, protect, and defend.