The Report
of the Iraq Inquiry
•
Parliamentary
records;
•
documents
published by the US Government and international
organisations;
•
published
memoirs and diaries;
•
academic
papers, including papers produced to inform the two
seminars
organised
by the Inquiry;
•
meetings in
the UK with Service Personnel and their families, and with
UK
civilians
who worked in Iraq; and
•
views heard
during visits to Iraq, the US and France by members of the
Inquiry.
9.
The Inquiry
presents that material in the form of gists, which summarise the
key
points of a
document or part of a document, and quotes. The source of each gist
and
quote is
given in a footnote.
10.
The Report
quotes extensively from the full range of sources. To aid
comprehension
the Inquiry
has sought to standardise spellings, abbreviations and acronyms and
the
representation
of numbers, dates and times within quotes. All bold and italic text
and
underlining
appearing within a quote has been retained from the
original.
11.
Where the
meaning of a quote is uncertain or ambiguous, explanatory material
has
been added
in square brackets.
12.
US spellings
are used for all US job titles and for US and international
organisations
using US
spellings in their names, and are retained in all quotes from US
sources.
13.
Whole
documents and extracts declassified by the Government, transcripts
of the
Inquiry’s
hearings and written submissions to the Inquiry are published on
the Inquiry
website,
with redactions where necessary.
14.
Where the
Government has declassified a gist or quote from a document, but
not
the whole
document or an extract from it, there is no further material
available to the
reader
beyond the gist or quote in the Report.
15.
In the online
version of the Report, hyperlinks in the footnotes take the reader
to
documents
published on the Inquiry website.
16.
The footnotes
in the printed version of the Report do not distinguish between
those
documents
which have been published on the Inquiry website and those which
have not.
17.
The Report
does not include links to other published sources.
18.
The legibility
of a small number of government documents published on the
Inquiry
website is
poor. In each case, the Inquiry has published the clearest copy
available.
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