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Ex-MI6 chief to give secret testimony
Guardian/Toby Helm, Jamie Doward
MPs from all parties say his testimony should be heard in public
Crucial evidence to the Iraq inquiry by Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6 at the time of the 2003 invasion, is likely to be heard in private.
He presented to Tony Blair the intelligence, obtained from an agent known as “Curveball”, [...]
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North Korea
North Korea fired artillery shells near the Yellow Sea’s maritime border with South Korea for a third day, a South Korean military spokesman said Friday.The North sent dozens of artillery shells near Yeonpyeong Island just 50 miles from the South Korean mainland, the Yonhap news agency reports.
Canada: Khadr
Canada’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that it [...]
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40 days that made illegal attack into legal war on Iraq
Guardian/Richard Norton-Taylor
• First law chief said second UN vote needed
• Then Bush lawyers changed his opinion
• Eve of battle revision to give troops clear yes
Lord Goldsmith, attorney general at the time of the Iraq war, acknowledged today that he changed his advice on the legality of the invasion twice in the five weeks leading up [...]









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