Iraq war files show US-UK tensions
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Leaked documents have revealed the extent of tensions between UK military commanders in Iraq and their US allies.
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Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Leaked documents have revealed the extent of tensions between UK military commanders in Iraq and their US allies.
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The head of the long-awaited Iraq War Inquiry pledged to produce a "full and insightful" account of the decision-making process which took Britain into the conflict.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
By public demand Gordon Brown's early efforts to keep the inquiry into the Iraq war secret were defeated by the chairman himself Sir John Chilcott , former father confessor to the intelligence community and NIO chief. In that role, he had probably the most extensive knowledge of anyone of MI5's role in the province and throughout the UK. I can feel hackles rising already at the sight of his pedigree...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The Iraq war inquiry will not result in a report that is a whitewash, the probe's chairman pledges.
icWales (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The head of the long-awaited Iraq War Inquiry pledged to produce a "full and insightful" account of the decision-making process which took Britain into the conflict.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
FORMER BRITISH prime minister Tony Blair’s repeated declarations that the planning for an Iraq invasion did not begin until 2003 have been cast into doubt on the eve of the opening of an official British inquiry into the war.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Forget the clichés: whitewashes, establishment cover-ups et al. Sir John Chilcot is the right man to head the inquiry which opens for business this week. He has a lucid, forensic intelligence. He knows how government works. He also knows that this will be his momentum aere perennius; this is how he will be remembered. So he will want to produce a report that wins the respect of his peers: has...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The former Whitehall mandarin heading the long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war has said his team will not shrink from criticising Tony Blair and other senior government figures if they are found to be at fault.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The Iraq war inquiry will result in a "full and insightful" account of events surrounding the conflict, the probe's chairman pledges.
icWales (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
THE Government should submit itself to the International Court of Justice if the Chilcot inquiry finds in broke the law in the run-up to the Iraq war, Plaid Cymru said last night.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's forces were sent to war in Iraq poorly prepared and ill-equipped by a government that was also "hopelessly optimistic" about post-war reconstruction, the Sunday Telegraph quotes leaked documents as saying.
Adloyada (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oliver Miles is Chairman of MEC International, a lobbying group which is mainly focused on lobbying on behalf of Arab and other Middle Eastern regimes and of companies which seek to do business with them. Inter alia it offers the...
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
The nation’s public reckoning over the Iraq war will finally go public tomorrow when witnesses start giving evidence to the official inquiry. Chaired by Sir John Chilcot, a retired Permanent Secretary, the committee faces a huge challenge to satisfy public expectations on the most controversial military and foreign policy action for half a century.
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
If even a fraction of the stories tell the truth about how Iraqi football was run by Uday Hussein, Saddam’s elder son — the punishment for missing a penalty in an important match was said to be a sound whipping — they vividly illustrate the country’s ancillary sufferings, aside from the death and destruction of war.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
• Inquiry to hear how Blair hid true intentions for war • Military 'ill-prepared' for aftermath of invasion Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony Blair's government's attempts to mislead the public. They were so shocked by the lack of preparation for...
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legaleagle1 | 05/10/2009
[Print] [Email] British firm fined for breaching UN sanctions in Iraq, corruption in Jamaica, Ghana Associated Press 09/25/09 1:35 PM PDT LONDON — A British bridge-building company was fined 3.5 million pounds ($5.6 million) on Friday for breaching United Nations sanctions in Iraq and for corruption offenses in Jamaica and Ghana. The Serious Fraud Office said the case against Mabey & Johnson Ltd. was...
abdulruff | 10/07/2009
Few US-led terror Forces Quit Iraq, at Last! By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal ----- Global media with a sense of “democratic pride announced that on 2009 30 June Tuesday, US troops have withdrawn from towns and cities in Iraq, six years after the invasion ostensibly to locate Osama and his hidden nukes, having formally handed over security duties to new Iraqi forces. A public holiday - National Sovereignty...