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  • 21 Jan 2011

    As Tony Blair appears again at the Iraq Inquiry, Channel 4 News examines the questions likely to be on the agenda as Tony Benn insists the former PM’s secret letters to President Bush must figure.

  • 21 Jan 2011

    A leading QC tells Channel 4 News that there is enough evidence for the International Criminal Court to mount a case against Tony Blair. The former PM has faced the Iraq Inquiry for the second time.

  • 20 Jan 2011

    As Tony Blair faces more questions from the Iraq inquiry about his decision to go to war, risk consultant John Drake looks at the ongoing violence in Iraq that has left a hundred dead in recent days.

  • 18 Jan 2011

    As the Iraq Inquiry resumes public hearings, a written statement from former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith reveals Tony Blair’s public statements were at odds to the legal advice.

  • 18 Jan 2011

    The man chairing the inquiry into the Iraq war says he is “disappointed” that secret messages between the former Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush have been blocked from publication.

  • 8 Dec 2010

    Former prime minister Tony Blair has been recalled to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war for further questioning, the inquiry team announced today in a statement.

  • 28 Jul 2010

    Chief correspondent Alex Thomson blogs from the Iraq Inquiry. General Sir Richard Dannatt came before the Chilcot folk with their gentle, leisurely questioning of various people involved in what critics describe as the UK’s greatest foreign policy disaster of modern times. Whether that is the case or not, it remains fascinating to watch the rather…

  • 28 Jul 2010

    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.

  • 20 Jul 2010

    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 Jul 2010

    A fascinating haul of classified documents released yesterday shed new light on the legal shenanigans in the run-up to the Iraq war. Among them, we see the former attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, setting down on 30 January 2003 that he believed war without a second UN resolution would be illegal. The next day, Blair met…

  • 30 Jun 2010

    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.

  • 9 Mar 2010

    “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.”

  • 8 Mar 2010

    Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry blogger looks ahead to David Miliband and Bill Jeffrey’s evidence.

  • 5 Mar 2010

    Iraq inquiry: Brown sadness at lives lost in ‘right war’

    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.

  • 5 Mar 2010

    Brown rattles off the numerical artillery

    For those of you who were following that penultimate session with the Prime Minster, resource account budgeting lived up to its billing. It is tough stuff but central to the whole story of whether the MOD was getting enough money to make long-term investments in the sort of kit now very clearly needed. Gordon Brown…

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