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The Report of the Iraq Inquiry
UK commercial interests ......................................................................................... 439
The UK ‘Vision for Iraq and the Iraqi People’ .......................................................... 440
Growing pressure for Ministerial decisions ................................................................... 444
Mr Blair’s meeting on post-conflict issues, 6 March 2003 ...................................... 448
The UK plan for Phase IV ....................................................................................... 458
Treasury discussions with the IMF ................................................................... 463
DFID update on humanitarian assistance ............................................................... 464
DIS Red Team report on retaining the support of the Iraqi people ......................... 465
UK military and humanitarian co-ordination in the South ........................................ 468
Mr Straw’s statement to the House of Commons, 10 March 2003 ................... 471
DIS report: ‘Basra: Post Saddam Governance’ ................................................ 472
DFID’s Humanitarian Strategy and Immediate Assistance Plan ...................... 473
Extending the Oil-for-Food programme .................................................................. 478
Plans and preparations on the eve of the invasion ....................................................... 478
The UK military plan ............................................................................................... 486
UK objectives for post-conflict Iraq ......................................................................... 491
The Azores Summit, 16 March 2003 ...................................................................... 493
Post-Azores concerns ............................................................................................. 497
Parliamentary debate on Iraq, 18 March 2003 ....................................................... 507
Revised arrangements for Ministerial discussion of Iraq ........................................ 512
Mr Blair’s conversation with President Bush, 19 March 2003 ................................ 513
Prime Minister’s Questions, 19 March 2003 ........................................................... 513
Security Council debate on Iraq, 19 March 2003 .................................................... 514
Straw/Hoon joint minute to Mr Blair ........................................................................ 515
The invasion .................................................................................................................. 521
The role of the UN .................................................................................................. 524
MOD update on Phase IV planning ........................................................................ 527
Draft UK post-conflict objectives ............................................................................. 530
Mr Blair’s meeting with President Bush, Camp David, 26 and 27 March 2003 ...... 534
Witness comments ........................................................................................................ 540
Conclusions .................................................................................................................. 551
What was known on the eve of the invasion ........................................................... 551
The failure to plan or prepare for known risks ........................................................ 561
The planning process and decision-making ........................................................... 563
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