25 items found

• 2 Feb 2011

  

  Egypt crisis: the secret American game plan?

  When Obama spoke to Mubarak, what exactly did he say? Channel 4 News examines America’s game plan in Egypt as Sarah Smith plots a timeline of the US President’s biggest foreign policy test yet.

• 9 Nov 2010

  

  Bush: ‘waterboarding’ prevented UK attacks

  As George W Bush defends the use of “waterboarding” for saving British lives, Channel 4’s Job Rabkin looks at the former US president’s defiance and regrets from his time in office.

• 22 Oct 2010

  

  Iraq’s secret war logs: Iraqi torture

  Iraq’s war logs published by WikiLeaks reveal US troops appeared to abuse Iraqi prisoners after the Abu Ghraib scandal, turned a blind eye to Iraqi-on-Iraqi torture and imprisoned one in 50 Iraqi men.

• 22 Oct 2010

  

  Iraq war files ‘the Pentagon never wanted you to see’

  There is so much data the Channel 4 Dispatches team had to design their own computer programme to sift through it – and the results of that are truly startling, writes Alex Thomson.

• 20 Jul 2010

  

  Ex-MI5 chief: Iraq, Afghanistan radicalised youth

  The former head of MI5 says that Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war “radicalised young people”, as Channel 4 News’ Jonathan Rugman reports on Baroness Manningham-Buller’s “haunting” statement.

• 1 Feb 2010

  Stirrup admits Iraq body armour problems

  Short session but some pretty important points. Missing kit and procurement problems have come up before but remember this; the Chief of the Defence Staff is “the professional head of the UK Armed Forces and the principal military adviser” to the Defence Secretary and the government. Put another way: top brass. Jock Stirrup got in…

• 20 Jan 2010

  Iraq inquiry: Hoon's sombre last stand

  Geoff Hoon lands blows on prime ministers past and present as the former defence secretary appears before the Iraq inquiry, writes the Iraq Inquiry Blogger.

• 7 Dec 2009

  Iraq inquiry: Cross told Blair 'we are not ready'

  Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq war inquiry: “Explosive” evidence from Major General Tim Cross reveals Tony Blair was told “we are not ready” for post-war Iraq, writes the Iraq Inquiry Blogger for Channel 4 News.

• 23 Feb 2009

  A looted museum and a satellite phone

  I remember the horror when we entered the plundered Baghdad Museum two days after the Americans took the Iraqi capital in April 2003. We picked our way through broken shards of pottery and destroyed statues – the looters had smashed as well as grabbed. A lone archaeologist was wandering around in shock. “We would have…

• 14 Jun 2013

  Matt Frei

  Obama opts for ‘intervention lite’

  President Obama has reconsidered his stance on Syria. That decision comes from more than just the crossing of a red line.