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‘Just Like That 45 Minutes Claim’: UK Intelligence and the Iraq Legacy

Long shadow: former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair addresses Parliament on the Iraq invasion in 2003

Long shadow: former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair addresses Parliament on the Iraq invasion in 2003. Image: PA Images / Alamy


The flawed use of intelligence to justify the Iraq invasion cast a long shadow over the UK intelligence services. Only in recent years has this ‘Iraq legacy’ started to change for the better.

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