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...Opportunity? The helter-skelter movements of Dodi Fayed and Diana in the hours before the crash, with last-minute changes of plan - Paul had been off duty until shortly before he got in the car, which left from the back of the hotel instead of the front, as expected - meant a murder operation of this complexity, to provoke a crash on an unanticipated route, could not have been mounted...
...celebrated white Fiat Uno that scraped the Mercedes before it crashed has still not been found. Stevens attacked head-on the idea that James Andanson, a photojournalist who owned such a car and later was found to have committed suicide, was a secret agent and was involved in the Diana crash. Stevens found Andanson had been home with his wife that night, before flying the next day to an assignment in Corsica...
...sounds convincing, but will it put Diana conspiracy theories to rest? For most people, yes. But for conspiracy theorists and tabloid editors who see sales jump every time they can contrive a reason to put Diana's picture on the front page, probably not. Already this week, the blogs were buzzing with a report from a British newspaper claiming that "U.S. security services" had been bugging Diana's hotel room on the night of her death, prompting a highly unusual and direct refutation by the National Security Agency, the agency in charge of such things. "NSA did not target Princess...
...huge emotional outpouring Diana's death provoked around the world means a similar sense of loss may be at work among those who never met her. "Some people have a predisposition to believe in conspiracies. They' re people who need structure, who want there to be an order in the world, who can't believe that unhappy events can just occur," says Cooper...
...Peter Knight, a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester who studies conspiracy theories, agrees that "if a major event happens, people want a major cause behind it." But he notices other trends at work in the persistence of Diana conspiracy theories. "Over the past 50 years, there's been a shift from scapegoating minorities - 'the Jews did it, the blacks did it' - to blaming people in power, like the royal family, the government, intelligence agencies. That's always been a bigger theme in the U.S. than in Britain, but Britain, indeed Europe as a whole is following...