Chilcot report to 'open the flood gate,' analyst says
The newly-released inquiry into Britain’s role in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq is not “the end of the line” but it “opens the flood gate,” says the CEO and founder of the Cordoba Foundation.
The Chilcot Inquiry, established in 2009 to investigate Britain’s most controversial military engagement since the end of the Second World War, published its 6,000-page report on Wednesday, slamming former British Prime Minister Tony Blair over support for former US President George W. Bush in the war.
Blair presented the case for war with “a certainty which was not justified” based on “flawed” intelligence about Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which was not challenged as it should have been, the report concluded.
In an interview with Press TV on Wednesday, Anas Alkitriti said Chilcot Inquiry does not mark an end to the investigation.
“We need to know who is behind those intelligence reports, meaning that this isn’t by any means the end of the line,” he said. “Chilcot nearly opens the flood gate.”
He added that it was time to act because “those allegations that were often denied and refuted by Blair himself and his advisors and those who opted for the war are now undeniable facts.”
“The fact that the preparation, the planning, the execution, the intelligence that came in, which built the policy for Iraq, were entirely flawed, was totally unsatisfactory.”
The report, Alkitriti further said, could pave the way for “the families of the military personnel, who lost their family members in Iraq to bring some sort of legal action against Blair.”
He added that “Chilcot has changed nothing in the reality” as the Iraqi nation is still suffering from consequences of Iraq War.
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