After an assassination you can follow the Motive, the Man or the Money...and with enough resources you can run all three investigations in parallel. The methodology for the Motive Investigation is to begin with a Who? Whom? Analysis (WWA) to establish who wins and loses by removal of the turbulent priest. The best people for this are insiders intimate with the work flowing across their desk, the phone calls made and the meetings scheduled.

Anna Lindh may have been Sweden’s Foreign Minister but she was also a long-standing Social Democrat Party Member. It is easy to look the wrong way. As one example Anna Lindh understood Stockholm and would have realised that replacing the long-established Tenancy System with a Bostadsrätt System would further impoverish the poor and benefit only the rich...many of them from outside Sweden in Germany, Russia and elsewhere.

Anna may have set herself against allowing local residents to work four days a week to pay mortgage interest to the banks when they could continue working just one day a week to pay rent to their Housing Association. Most Social Democrats would have opposed a Clearance Policy in Stockholm’s inner suburbs. Anna Lindh with leadership ambitions may have made this issue her rallying point for the Party Faithful. Hers would have been a powerful voice.

Stockholm Property Mafias with billions of kronor at speculation would have no qualms in paying for her removal. They might threaten her children first. Perhaps they did? Who would she tell? Perhaps the modern way is to kill first to avoid questions later. It would be a bonus that investigators would be looking elsewhere for her killers. After the assassin is back under your control the next task is to lay false trails across the path of your pursuers. Investigative websites spring up after most assassinations...some may be disinformation sites. Scepticism is required.

This example is not intended as a subtle hint...there are no whistleblowers whispering in my ear...but as a way to explain and illustrate the Motive Search Process (MSP). In practice this particular Suspect Scenario is on my C-List...an ABC Analysis being an extension of the Pareto Principle where list allocation criteria is action-oriented.

A common policy would be applied to investigating C-List Suspects. A fully resourced team would be set to work investigating each A-List Suspect while the investigative focus for B-List Suspects would be to assess whether to treat them as A-List or C-List. These Desk Studies are similar to the Profiling Approach used by Terrorism Prevention and are unlikely to overlap with Police Investigations. In general the police can be thought of as being interested in the greasy rag while the Who? Whom? Analysis is looking for the engineer...and the command structure behind him.

A cursary glance at Conspiracy Theory Websites suggests that the Usual Suspects in any high profile assassination are Mossad and the CIA. But I tend not to put the American and Israeli Governments very high on my list. They both appear to have Assassination Procedures in place. Israel may hunt down the Munich killers of their Olympic Athletes and go after the leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas for instance. And the Wiesenthal Centre pursues Nazi Holocaust Perpetrators to the ends of the earth.

But in general my sympathies are with the Israelis. I believe they weigh these steps carefully. But the notion that an Israeli Government Committee should sit around a polished cherry-wood conference table in Tel Aviv and approve the assassination of Anna Lindh because she was in the habit of criticising Israel and siding with the Palestinians seems rather far-fetched. So neither the CIA nor Mossad are on my Anna Lindh A-List or B-List.

I tend to put the Supra-Government Groups (SGG)...those who anoint governments...and Global Interest Groups (GIG) much higher on my list. Governments are just one of many potential assassins. The Moscow or Washington Governments may come under suspicion when their interests are threatened. And Black-Ops seem to be something that Stupidity Services delight in telling us they carry out. But I suspect much of this is posturing to bolster their own flagging self-esteem. The world according to Grahame Greene and John Le Carré rings true...with cock-ups galore.

My Anna Lindh A- and B-Lists consist of seven Supra-Government Groups and three Global Interest Groups. Top of the A-List is One World Order followed by Guns, Gold, US Imperialists and Austro-Hungarian Supremecists. On the B-List are the Fear Factory (Politico-Legal-Media Complex & Bank-Industry-Government Complex), TransNational Corporations (Drugs, Chemicals, Energy etc), Zionists, European Union and the EuroBankers.

Nowadays the Hollywood Studio System...not its Rogue Actor-Directors like Robert Redford, Oliver Stone, Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner etc...is doing good Conspiracy Genre films. Obviously for them the bottom line is good. But they are not pulling punches and directors are not being leaned on to take a party line. Lord of War with Nicholas Cage and John le Carré’s The Constant Gardener with Ralph Fiennes are good examples of this genre...and I would expect Michael Crichton’s State of Fear to get fair treatment. In each case Global Interest Groups are portrayed as the Bad Guys...Global Arms Trade, Global Drug Companies and Environmental Groups respectively.