‘Chilcot inquiry faces further delay until next summer’
The UK’s long-delayed Iraq war probe, otherwise known as the Chilcot inquiry after the name of the investigation chief, John Chilcot, will not be released until the summer of 2016, British media say.
This is while it has been claimed that a draft report was “riddled with errors.”
Senior UK military commanders have reacted furiously to the draft of the report which blames them for the decisions taken at the time of the US-led war in Iraq in 2003, according to the Independent.
The report has argued that UK generals and admirals made decisions which were indeed the responsibility of politicians and civil servants. But the officers argue that they only obeyed legal orders.
The Iraq inquiry, conducted over the past six years, has been looking into the circumstances surrounding the invasion of the country.
British media say the findings could eventually pave the way for the victims of the Iraq war as well as their families to launch criminal proceedings and sue high-ranking British army officials.
The inquiry has repeatedly delayed its report under the pretext of needing to interview all individuals implicated in the US-led invasion of Iraq.
The last of the hearings of the inquiry was held more than four years ago.
John Chilcot last week apologized to the families of UK soldiers who died in Iraq for the length of the inquiry, but refused to set a date for publication.
Earlier this month, lawyers representing 29 families said they would move to the London High Court, if the Chilcot inquiry fails to give a publication deadline in two weeks.
The US-led invasion of Iraq lasted for over 8 years. The war, which was initiated under the false pretense of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, took the lives of 179 UK personnel and nearly 4,500 US soldiers.
The number of Iraqi civilian deaths has been estimated to be over one million by some sources.
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