1.
The Executive
Summary contains the Inquiry’s key findings and
conclusions.
2.
The 17
Sections of the Report contain accounts of the relevant decisions
and events,
the
Inquiry’s full analysis and conclusions, and, where appropriate,
lessons for the
future.
3.
The Sections
address separate themes arising from the sequence of events
between
2001 and
2009. In each Section the Inquiry draws on the available evidence
to provide
an account
of events, policy discussions and decision-making
processes.
4.
The Inquiry
does not present all its conclusions in the same way. Different
topics
benefited
from different approaches. In the Sections covering the period
before the
invasion,
conclusions are placed alongside the main evidence in a single
Section. In
the
majority of post-invasion material, the conclusions appear in
separate analytical
Sections.
5.
Bold text is
used in the pre-invasion Sections of the Report to highlight
Inquiry
comment and
analysis, and to signpost or summarise key events. Bold text is not
used
in
post-invasion Sections. Throughout the Report, bold text is
retained in quotes as it
appeared in
the original.
6.
Cross-references
to other Sections are used where an issue or event referred to
in
one Section
is addressed in more detail elsewhere.
7.
Identical, or
very similar, material can appear in two or more Sections where
that aids
comprehension
or is necessary for an accurate description of events.
8.
The Report
draws on material from a wide range of sources,
including:
•
UK
Government documents;
•
transcripts
of the Inquiry’s public and private hearings;
•
written
submissions to the Inquiry;
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