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Iraq inquiry: a corker of a declassified document
Interesting papers on the Iraq legal opinion released by the coalition government – there was a long fruitless struggle to get them from the last government.
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Former head of the army, General Sir Richard Dannatt, tells the Iraq inquiry that an overstretched army ‘almost seized up’ due to troop commitments abroad, writes Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.
“I have often thought whether my predecessor or I should have challenged more,” Baroness Manningham-Buller told the Iraq inquiry in the most haunting quotation of the day.
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.
Interesting papers on the Iraq legal opinion released by the coalition government – there was a long fruitless struggle to get them from the last government.
The tone of Labour’s leadership contest has been courteous so far. But, asks Krishnan Guru-Murthy, will the candidates’ claims over the war in Iraq change all that?
Peter Moore dismisses as “propaganda” new video released by his kidnappers in Iraq, which claims to show he was not mistreated during the two years he was held hostage.
Former Iraq hostage Peter Moore, abducted with four security guards in 2007, speaks to Channel 4 News at length about his two and a half years in captivity.
“There’s a wonderful phrase: ‘the Fog of War.’ What the fog of war means is: war is so complex it’s beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend all the variables. Our judgment, our understanding, are not adequate. And we kill people unnecessarily.”
Gordon Brown has left the building. He closed his evidence repeatedly referring to his “sadness” at the lives lost in Iraq. There was no expression of regret. He thought it was the right war entered into for the right reasons, he repeatedly said. Everything he said, he said repeatedly.
The Iraq Inquiry blogger poses questions that Gordon Brown may face when he gives evidence.
Channel 4 News’s Iraq Inquiry blogger reviews a day of predictable evidence delivered in unexpected ways.
Channel 4 News’s Iraq Inquiry Blogger hears Sir John Chilcot mention plans to hold further hearings in Iraq.
The Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry blogger looks ahead to the day’s evidence.
The Iraq Inquiry blogger assesses Clare Short’s evidence and Sir Peter Ricketts’s third appearance.