Chilcot report published

The long-awaited report into the UK’s involvement in the Iraq War is likely
to be critical of the way then-Prime Minister Tony Blair led the country
into the 2003 invasion of Iraq

Report in numbers

Seven Years since Chilcot Inquiry was launched. Report covers lead-up
to invasion from 2001 to withdrawal of majority of British troops in 2009

2.6 million Words included in report – four times length of War and Peace

150,000 Documents analysed

150 Witnesses who gave evidence during more than 130 sessions

$13.3m Estimated cost of report

6-11 million People that marched in up to 60 countries across world
on Feb 16, 2003, to express opposition to imminent war in Iraq

$12.30bn Cost of British funding of Iraq conflict (includes $740m in aid)*

179 UK military personnel killed in Iraq during conflict in which tens of
thousands of Iraqi civilians died

*UK government figures released June 2010
 
Source: Iraq Inquiry

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