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Kirsty’s Story
Former Ambassador, Human Rights Activist
I knew with certainty that the BBC and official line of a lone gunman being responsible for the Tunisian attacks was a lie, because one of the victims of one of the “other” gunmen was my dear niece Kirsty.
We had a terrible day of the attack, because for hours Kirsty was simply missing. I was the whole day on the phone to the FCO and Tunisian authorities, and we feared the worst. My brothers Neil (Kirsty’s dad) and Stuart managed to get out to Tunisia that very day. The only thought that we had was Kirsty’s safety. Thankfully she has been (strange to say in the circumstances) miraculously lucky in the path of the bullets. Many others were less fortunate. Radley also was less fortunate. I know how the families must feel of others, and there are some who even now are suffering the agony of no confirmation of disappeared relatives. 12 hours of that were bad enough.
I was however simply astonished by the utter incompatibility of my knowledge of what actually happened, to the lone gunman line being pumped out by the BBC (I am in Ghana and not seeing other UK media). Every hour I kept expecting the lone gunman nonsense to be corrected, but instead the line hardened and was earnestly discussed and promoted by more and more BBC presenters and experts, despite being entirely untrue. It felt very weird to have direct personal access to the knowledge they were lying in this way; even though I saw it from the inside for years as a British diplomat.
We are a large and close family and tough, as Kirsty exemplifies. Kirsty has the love and support she will need after this traumatic experience. Now she is safely back and speaking to the UK media, I can acknowledge the connection with pride. It is, incidentally, a striking example of the stupidity of random terrorism. Kirsty was a leader in the series of school pupil walkouts in opposition to the war in Iraq.
Source: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/06/kirstys-story/
