Gary Gibbon
Waiting, in a tiny room, for the Iraq inquiry
Unlike the Hutton inquiry when documents poured out of government every day the opening taster at the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war is discouraging.
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Iraq inquiry: as it starts, what can we expect?
For a war that seared onto our TV screens via the US military doctrine of “shock and awe” the UK’s official inquiry into the Iraq conflict just started with a distinctly English sang froid. First things first – another inquiry? You could be forgiven a tinge of déjà vu, but the two best-known investigations that…
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Gary Gibbon
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The Iraq inquiry: blogging the investigation into the conflict
Channel 4 News will be blogging the Iraq Inquiry, the unprecedented investigation into how the UK became involved in the Iraq conflict, how the war was fought and what befell the people of Iraq afterwards.
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For Vietnam, read Iraq – and Afghanistan
The longer the US administration takes making up its mind about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, the more comparisons are made with Vietnam.
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Jon Snow
Has Iraq sunk Blair's presidency hopes?
The presidency of Europe is slipping rapidly from Tony Blair’s hands. My sources in Brussels and elsewhere report a rapid sea change in the former prime minister’s fortunes as ratification of the Lisbon treaty creeps closer (the Czech president could reluctantly sign it within a week). Those sources tell me that Blair’s candidacy has been…
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Gary Gibbon
Chilcot insists Iraq Inquiry won’t shy from pointing blame
At the Iraq Inquiry launch. Sir John Chilcot says don’t expect a report before the end of 2010 at the earliest. Witnesses will have to give undertakings that their evidence is truthful, fair and accurate. Senior figures in the US will be spoken to privately as they were in the Butler inquiry. That report concluded…
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Royal Navy cast adrift in Iraq?
This is the way the Brit mission ends. No bang; just the whimper of a procedural delay in the Iraqi parliament. After six years, the number of British troops in Iraq has gone from 46,000 to zero. (Well zero-ish, as there are some still based in Baghdad.) A photograph in The Times said it all.
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Gary Gibbon
Iraq Inquiry could hear mountains of evidence
The Iraq Inquiry looks like being unveiled soon – maybe next week. Folk close to it are talking about mountains of evidence. Word is that the inquiry may have decided against those saying “get a lawyer.” The Hutton Inquiry used a barrister, James Dingemans QC, to question witnesses in the first round of evidence sessions.…
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Jon Snow
As the US pulls out, what did the Iraq war achieve?
Iraq is a country I have visited many times since I was first there to report from the front line of the harrowing Iran/iraq war in 1980. Foreign intervention and interference has dogged it for more than a century. No wonder Baghdad is seized with parties and celebration. For the promised American pull-out from Iraq…
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Gary Gibbon
An open inquiry into Iraq war?
The Prime Minister will announce an inquiry into the Iraq war this afternoon. Given the nature of the military and intelligence material that’ll be under scrutiny Whitehall is expecting this to follow the precedent of the Franks Inquiry into the Falklands and be held in private.
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Jon Snow
Who’ll be the judge of Brown’s Iraq war inquiry?
Gordon Brown will announce an inquiry into the Iraq war this week. My sources tell me that this will not be chaired by a judge, senior or retired. It will be chaired instead by a historian. The hot tip in Whitehall is that it is likely to be the respected Churchill and Holocaust scholar Sir…
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Jon Snow
From Guernica to Iraq
There is undoubtedly a historic feel to the impending arrival here of the new American president. But despite the ascent of Barack Obama, Grosvenor Square, in London’s west end, together with the looming hulk that is America’s embassy, will be the focus of anti-globalisation protesters tomorrow. As a clapped-out old protester myself – to my…
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Iraqi refugees: still a 'long, long way to go'
During the war in Iraq, we were utterly reliant on a team of Iraqi drivers, translators and fixers. They were optimistic that the Americans would bring freedom and hope – but over the years, as violence escalated, many ended up in crowded, dingy quarters in Syria and Jordan. They had no work, and no income.
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Iraq war translators feel ‘abandoned’
A former British army translator, in exile from Iraq, tells Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller “every day the situation is worse” after being “abandoned” by the UK.
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Iraq war remembered: the rescue of 5-year-old Zahra
During the hunt for Saddam Hussein Lindsey Hilsum and her team encounter civilians who had been killed or injured in the fighting – including 5-year-old Zahra who had been shot in the head by American snipers.
