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Chilcot Inquiry

Published: 09/14/10

Britain Had No Clue What to Do in Iraq, Colonel Testifies

By  Paul Wachter - AOL News
Britain Had No Clue What to Do in Iraq, Colonel Testifies

(Sept. 14) -- In an admission more befitting of a satirical film, Col. Tim Collins, who led his Royal Irish regiment into Iraq at the outset of the war, told a British inquiry team today that his superiors had "absolutely no idea" what to do after the invasion. "I rather thought that there would be some sort of plan and the government had thought this through, and I was clearly wrong," he said. "It became very apparent to me shortly after crossing the border that the government and many of my superiors had no idea what they were doing." Collins was paid a visit at the army base in Tidworth, ...

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Published: 03/8/10

Will the War in Iraq Ever Go Away?

By  Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily
Will the War in Iraq Ever Go Away?

The war in Iraq just isn't going gently into the night, is it? Sunday's parliamentary election took place amid a backdrop of mortar, grenade and bomb attacks in Baghdad and other major cities. The good news is that the elections went ahead and people voted. But the extreme political fragmentation that characterizes the country -- with some 6,000 candidates, from more than 80 parties, chasing a mere 325 parliamentary seats -- means that whatever coalition government results will be necessarily fragile. And even as President Obama praised Iraqi voters for their bravery in casting their ballots, ...

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Published: 02/17/10

CIA Torture Case Entangles U.K. Government, Prompts Charges of Cover-Up

By  Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily
CIA Torture Case Entangles U.K. Government, Prompts Charges of Cover-Up

Britain's top military intelligence agency -- MI5 -- has been accused of covering up its complicity in the torture of a U.K. citizen. The case has created a political firestorm in this country, reigniting controversy over government secrecy, the morality of torture and Britain's special relationship with the United States. The case concerns one Binyam Mohamed. Mohamed is a U.K. resident who was detained by the U.S. government on suspicion of terrorism shortly after 9/11 and spent 6½ years imprisoned in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Morocco and Guantánamo Bay. Mohamed has long alleged that he was ...

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Published: 01/29/10

Tony Blair: Jesus Christ or Richard Nixon?

By  Delia Lloyd - Politics Daily
Tony Blair: Jesus Christ or Richard Nixon?

LONDON -- Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared before a government-appointed panel in London Friday to answer questions about his role in the war in Iraq. It was, in many ways, the moment this country has been waiting for ever since Blair's government joined the United States in invading Iraq in 2003. And in a telling sign of just how torn up the U.K. is over this man -- and this conflict -- he was alternately compared to both Jesus Christ and Richard Nixon as he took the stand. ...

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