UK Envoy in Saudi 'collusion' claim

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Envoy in Saudi 'collusion' claim


Michael Hamilton was shot on his way to work

The UK's ambassador to Saudi Arabia says he believes the Saudi security services may have helped in the escape of a gang who killed 22 people. Briton Michael Hamilton, 61, who was born in Kilmarnock and lived in Sussex, was among those killed in a siege in the Saudi city of Khobar in May. His family believes the Saudi forces colluded with the terrorists.

Ambassador Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles told Radio 4's Today there appeared to have been some sort of "arrangement". Mr Cowper-Coles told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It is impossible to imagine the terrorists escaping without some sort of understanding with the security forces.

"One cannot be clear exactly what happened. We are still piecing it together. The Metropolitan Police haven't finalised their internal report. "But it does look as though there was something that enabled the terrorists to get out of that compound, which was surrounded by a very large number of security forces".

Mr Hamilton's brother, Douglas, also criticised Saudi security forces for allowing militants to escape. He added: "The thought that 40 special security people went in through various doors and in through the roof and they could not contain three men appears to be totally beyond belief. "I think if you equate that with the number of the SAS required to take this little lot out, it would have been very small and I think the result would have been conclusive. "I think they were allowed to escape purely because of their connections with the internal security at Saudi".

But Jamal Khashoggi, a media adviser to the Saudi Ambassador to London, claims that security in charge of the siege were worried that the militants might have taken hostages. He added: "The issue of colluding, it is not the case at all. "The speculation we have is that they had to let them go, because there was a potential threat of hostages".
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Sherrard Cowper Coles and his wife Bridget (nee Elliot) are 100% BFEE crooks. I have posted about them on DU, having known them for over 30 years.

HE is a nephew by marriage to Margaret Thatcher and was pivotal in making sure the UK Foreign Office via MI6 made sure that the CIA investigation of the Pan Am bomb that killed over 280 people over Lockerbie in 1988 never probed the fact that on the day of the actual bombing, there was a security break in in the baggage handling depots at London'e Heathrow Airport. Officially Libyan Al-Meghrahim took the rap on CIA evidence that the bomb was planted in Frankfurt on a feeder flight.

On the morning of 9/11 BBC News reported that the Heathrow break in story was about to be investigated after possible cover-up and associated collusion had come to light. Nothing ever came of this story though because 9/11 struck....

SHE is a IRA crook whose personal police record was wiped clean by Thatcher during her second term of office, in particular her role in the October 1983 Brinks Matt bullion heist at Heathrow airport and subsequent moneylaundering of the £26 million proceeds.... Also her role in the disappearance/murder of estate agent Suzie Lamplugh in July 1986, who was linked to a £1billion UK property/real estate scam laundered via the channel islands to Texas....

Used to now her uncle the movie actor Denholm Elliot (played the butler Coleman in "Trading Places" inter alia).

Her husband was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Robin Cokk during his tenure as Foreign Secretary, before being given the plum Ambassador's job in Tel Aviv, just before 9/11, and then onto Riyadh.

The knighthood he got this year is tantamount to giving Osama bin Laden the Nobel Peace Prize.