Could the Iraq inquiry pass judgement on the legality of war?
Might the Iraq inquiry team be testing the ground to see if it should dare to pass judgement on legality, just as the Dutch inquiry did a couple of weeks ago?
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Might the Iraq inquiry team be testing the ground to see if it should dare to pass judgement on legality, just as the Dutch inquiry did a couple of weeks ago?
Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon looks at the conclusions drawn by the Dutch Iraq inquiry in The Hague.
Admiral Boyce claimed officials were told to “stay in their tents” rather than rebuild post-war Iraq. Lt Gen Sir Robert Fry told the inquiry its staff “could barely conceal their moral disdain” for UK government policy. Major General Tim Cross called its then-Secretary of State Clare Short “unhelpful.”
As Sir John Chilcot continues his inquiry into the Iraq conflict, Channel 4 News discovers pro-war voices are becoming hard to find.
Good morning once again from the cosy confines of the QEII conference centre in London where the Iraq inquiry gets under way shortly. Yesterday’s evidence was very much of a military bent taking us through pre-combat planning to the fall of Baghdad. With the soldiers’ war “won” – at least as seen from Washington…
At the start of the second week of the Iraq inquiry, four well-known opponents of the conflict gave their reaction to the findings so far to Channel 4 News.
The Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry blogger says there has been a flurry of excitement among journalists as details emerge about intelligence concerning Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons plan, received on the eve of the conflict led by Tony Blair and George W Bush.
The Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry blogger says there has been a flurry of excitement among journalists as details emerge about intelligence concerning Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons plan, received on the eve of the conflict led by Tony Blair and George W Bush.
Sir John Chilcot insisted he would be passing judgement on the legality of war but wouldn’t come to all that till the 2010 sessions.
We spoke to Brigadier General Amir Avivi, who previously served in the Israel Defense Forces and founded the Israel Defense and Security Forum.
Celebrities often support aid agencies, but by recognising the role of regional powers in Sudan, Macklemore has done something more significant: he has identified the real cause of the suffering and called for action.
In this episode of The Political Fourcast, Nicky Morgan and Charlie Falconer join Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss how the war in Gaza could change the political fortunes of UK parties.
Iraq has warned of disastrous consequences for the region, after the US launched air strikes on 85 targets used by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. It said 16 people were killed in Iraq, some of them civilians. The strikes were in retaliation for a drone attack which killed three US troops last Sunday. And…
We spoke to United States congressman Seth Moulton – who’s an Iraq war veteran and began by asking him about President Biden’s wording that last night’s hospital blast was committed by ‘the other team’ – and why he might have said that.
The education secretary Nadhim Zahawi is an Iraqi Kurd who left his home country when he was just 11, his family fearing for their lives under Saddam Hussein.