Mohammed Al-Fayed to drag an American intelligence agency to establish his claim that the British secret service assasinated his son and Diana on the orders of Prince Philip.
LONDON: Mohammed Al-Fayed, whose son Dodi was killed alongside Princess Diana in a Paris car crash ten years back, is considering to drag an American intelligence agency to establish his claim that the two were assassinated by British secret service on the orders of Prince Philip.
Al-Fayed's legal team would make a demand for top US intelligence files on the Princess of Wales to be made available at the inquest into her death, 'The Guardian' reported on Sunday.
The Harrods boss insists that the National Security Agency had amassed a wealth of intelligence on the Princess of Wales. His lawyers believe the material could shed important light on crucial issues such as whether Diana confided she would marry Dodi or whether she was pregnant.
But, Al-Fayed's team wants Coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker to decide whether the tapes would be presented to the jury at the inquest which opened this month.
"I can see no reason why these documents should not be made available to the coroner. For the sake of transparency -- and to determine whether they are germane to the inquest -- the Coroner should ask to see the files," Harrods Head of Security John McNamara was quoted by the daily as saying.
"And if they are to be made available they should be made available to all interested parties," said McNamara who worked closely with the British police probe team that produced a report last year that Princess Diana's death in 1997 was an accident.
In a related development, two key witnesses have refused to give evidence at the Diana inquest.
According to a report in the 'Daily Mail' on Sunday, Jacques Langevin, a paparazzi who took the last picture of Princess Diana outside the Ritz Hotel in Paris, has reversed an earlier decision to appear as a witness.
He is joined on the sidelines by 32-year-old French taxi driver Le Van Thanh, who many believe was the driver of the Fiat Uno that collided with Diana's car in the Pont d'Alma tunnel before it crashed.
"I do not want to get involved in this. It happened a long time ago," Thanh said.
The loss of both men is a severe blow to the investigation as their evidence could have quashed the many conspiracy theories, including the claim that Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed were executed by MI6, the daily claimed.
Last week, a CCTV footage of Dodi's driver Henri Paul waving at Langevin as he walked around to the back of the Paris hotel, was shown to the jury at the inquest. Moments later he slipped around to the rear of the hotel and took the picture of Diana through the front of the car windscreen, just before they set off.
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