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Iraq report: Secret papers reveal blunders and concealment

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By Andrew Gilligan - Nov. 23 (News Report) - On the eve of the Chilcot inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the 2003 invasion and its aftermath, The Sunday Telegraph has obtained hundreds of pages of secret Government reports on “lessons learnt” which shed new light on “significant shortcomings” at all levels. They include full transcripts of extraordinarily frank classified interviews in which British Army commanders vent their frustration and anger with ministers and Whitehall officials.

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Hostility between British and American military leaders revealed

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By Andrew Gilligan - Nov. 22 (News Report) - The deep hostility of Britain's senior military commanders in Iraq towards their American allies has been revealed in classified Government documents leaked to the Daily Telegraph. In the papers, the British chief of staff in Iraq, Colonel JKTanner, described his US military counterparts as “a group of Martians” for whom “dialogue is alien,” saying: “Despite our so-called ‘special relationship,’ I reckon we were treated no differently to the Portuguese.”

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