As we reported elsewhere, there are strong indications that Austrian politician Jorge Haider may have been assassinated and a car “accident” effectively used to cover the crime; in much the same way Princess Diana met her end.

Now a reader informs us that Austrian authorities are going to some considerable lengths to cover the crime and effectively blacken Haider’s name.

They have to, particularly after an estimated 25,000 mourners turned up at his funeral in Klagenfurt, the capital of the Austrian province of Carinthia where he was governor for more than a decade. If they don’t Haider may become an icon.

So for a start, the Austrian authorities are changing their story about the circumstances leading up to his death. Now they are saying Haider drank a bottle to vodka before he left on his fatal trip, instead of the vast quantities of Italian white wine, as they originally claimed.

There are now also …