{"id":3533,"date":"2015-01-22T12:17:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T12:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=3533"},"modified":"2015-01-22T12:17:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T12:17:42","slug":"iraq-war-report-delayed-until-after-uk-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/iraq-war-report-delayed-until-after-uk-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq War report delayed until after UK election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iraq-sir-john.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3534\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Iraq-sir-john.jpg\" alt=\"Iraq sir john\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Iraq inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot was expected to confirm in a letter to David Cameron that it would be delayed until after the election on 7 May.<br \/>\nThe inquiry began its work in 2009 and held its last public hearing in 2011.<br \/>\nDeputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the delay was &#8220;incomprehensible&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe Liberal Democrat leader said that the public would assume the delay was caused by those criticised in the report attempting to &#8220;sex it down&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe prime minister is to write a letter to the inquiry to &#8220;restate his frustration&#8221; at delay in publication and to say the report should have been published before the election, sources have told the BBC.<br \/>\nThe inquiry has been looking into the reasons for the UK&#8217;s involvement in the 2003 US-led invasion which toppled Saddam Hussein and the aftermath of the conflict, which saw UK troops remain in Iraq until 2009.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/iraq-war-report-delayed-until-after-uk-election\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot was expected to confirm in a letter to David Cameron that it would be delayed until after the election on 7 May. The inquiry began its work in 2009 and held its last public hearing in 2011. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the delay was &#8220;incomprehensible&#8221;. The Liberal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3535,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3533\/revisions\/3535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}