Chilcot Report: Iraq families want Tony Blair to face justice
SCOTT MACNAB
20:17 Tuesday 05 July 2016
It is now seven years since the inquiry under Sir John Chilcot got underway and families will today learn of its findings when it is published. It was hit by delays, notably wrangling over the de-classification of communications between Blair and former US President George W Bush ...
It is now thirteen years after British troops crossed into Iraq which cost the lives of 179 British soldiers and left hundreds more injured, while up to 170,000 Iraqis were killed ...
General Sir Michael Rose, who commanded British troops in Bosnia in the 1990s and has been advising the families of some of the British dead and injured, said they were preparing to launch a civil action against Mr Blair ...
“The consequences of that war have been utterly catastrophic. The families want to see justice and if it proves as a result of reading the report that there was dereliction of duty, malfeasance in public office, intelligence was negligently handled, then they will take action” ...
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