Alex Thomson
Poll shows public at odds with reality of Iraq war
A new poll on public perceptions in the UK of the Iraq war is so staggeringly at odds with reality as to leave this journalist speechless.
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Fight for justice over Iraq chemicals ‘exposure’
14 RAF airmen claim a US defence contractor’s negligence meant they were exposed to toxic chemicals during the Iraq war. But they also feel let down by Britain’s MoD.
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River of refugees flee Syria for Iraq
A flood of 30,000 Syrian refugees have entered Kurdish Iraq in the past three days. It is the biggest single wave of refugees to leave Syria since the 2011 uprising started says the UN.
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UK and US condemn ‘cowardly’ Iraq bomb attacks
“Cowardly”, “shocking” and “inhuman”: global powers condemn a wave of car bomb attacks that sources say killed nearly 80 people in Iraq on Saturday.
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Iraq’s leaders ‘must find solution to violence’
As Iraq is hit by deadly bomb attacks, arguably the latest consequence of Western intervention, Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt says it is up to Iraq’s political leaders to find a solution.
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Deadly car bomb attacks shatter Iraq’s Eid celebrations
As Muslims across the world celebrate Eid, a religious holiday of ‘unity’, Iraq is once against bloodied by car bomb attacks in Shi-ite areas, which kill at least 60.
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Al-Qaeda claims Iraq prison raids in Abu Ghraib and Taji
Al-Qaeda claim responsibility for simultaneous raids on two Iraqi prisons in which more than 500 inmates were reportedly freed.
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Alex Thomson
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Iraq 10 years on: the faces of change
Blindness, bereavement and post-traumatic stress disorder. Andy Davies meets three people whose lives have been forever changed by the decision to go to war in Iraq a decade ago.
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Lindsey Hilsum
This was it. After the waiting, the Iraq war had begun
With the start of Operation Shock and Awe unfolding in front of them, the Channel 4 News crew received an unwelcome visit to their room in Baghdad’s Hotel Palestine.
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For many of America’s Iraq veterans, the fight continues
US Marine Corps veteran Brandon Blackstone suffered severe injuries when his unit ran over a tank mine. But 10 years on from the invasion, he still believes George W Bush was right to go into Iraq.
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Iraq war 10 years on: what have we learned?
It was the most divisive war of modern times. In our second special report a decade after the Iraq invasion, Channel 4 News asks leading figures what have we learned from it all?
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Fifteen faces of the Iraq war. What happened next?
They were familiar figures of the Iraq war. A decade on from the start of the invasion, some have faded into obscurity while the legacy of others endures. Where are they now?
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Baghdad bombings kill dozens on Iraq war anniversary
More than 50 people are feared dead after a wave of car bombings in Shi’ite areas of Baghdad on the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
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Alex Thomson
Jack Straw ‘edging towards the S word’ on Iraq
Jack Straw clearly cannot stand by the statement that the British are not kidnapping and torturing people using third-party countries, merely that he insists he was not involved himself.
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Inquiry opens into alleged Iraqi murders by British troops
Graphic photographs of alleged victims of torture are shown at the long-awaited inquiry into the treatment of Iraqi detainees by British soldiers during the Iraq war.
