Minute-by-minute coverage as the foreign secretary and the defence secretary are grilled by MPs

British forces went into Iraq without enough body armour because planning for the war took place "at the last minute", Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup told the inquiry into the conflict.

The Iraqi Center for Federal Studies (ICFS) is a projject of the Forum of Federations which has received funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). It seeks to encourage discussion in Iraq about democratic forms of federal government. The English language version of the website provides some background explanations of the nature and theory of federal government. It also inc...

The claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction available to use at 45 minutes notice should never have been included in the infamous Downing Street dossier used to justify the war, a former Whitehall intelligence chief has said.

Including the 45-minute claim in an intelligence dossier on Iraq's weapons was "asking for trouble", Tony Blair's former security coordinator says.

In Resurgence of Taliban and al Qaeda we relied on the CTC Sentinel at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point to show that there had begun a steady redeployment of al Qaeda and foreign fighters away from Iraq and to Afghanistan and Pakistan.  “By 2007, jihadist websites from Chechnya to Turkey to the Arab world

The Wall Street Journal carries an interesting article, translated from the German, about the activity of the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism in Berlin. The Center's introductory paragraph is entirely praiseworthy: The Center for Research on Antisemitism, founded in 1982, is the only scholarly institution conducting interdisciplinary researches and teachings focussing on prejudices and t...

It's good to see that Alastair Campbell has lost none of his front. During his five hour grilling today by the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war, he said that he defended "every word" of the Iraq dossier. Including, presumably, such gems as the 45 minute warning, and the large numbers of WMDs just waiting to be fired off. He also announced that he was proud of the part he played; comfort, I'm sure...

Everyone should take 1 minute out of their day for this bit of brilliant blogging by Thomas Ricks. Update: Check out the first comment by Barney Rubel, Dean at the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the Naval War College. Talk about adding value to a conversation.

It is welcome that Carne Ross reminds us (Report, March 20) that intelligence available to the government before the invasion of Iraq made it "very clear" that Saddam was not a threat, but it's hardly a revelation. The confidential Downing Street minute from 23 July 2002 records Jack Straw, then foreign secretary, telling the meeting of senior ministers and officials that the case for war aga...