Goldsmith's Iraq Advice 'Warned UK Troops Faced Prosecution'

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Channel 4 News this evening broadcast details from a document which it claimed was the Attorney General’s secret advice to Prime Minister Tony Blair about the legality of war in Iraq.

The programme said that the contents of the document, drawn up by Lord Goldsmith on March 7 2003, differed sharply from the summary of his opinion given to MPs on the eve of war 10 days’ later.


The document warned that British troops involved in any invasion of Iraq might face prosecution in the international courts and said that the “safest legal course” would be to secure a new Security Council resolution authorising war, Channel 4 News reported.

And it said that Lord Goldsmith believed that the UK and US would need “strong factual grounds” and “hard and compelling evidence” of Iraqi breaches of United Nations resolutions before taking military action. There was no immediate response to the broadcast from 10 Downing Street.

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1. copy of the summary:

http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=91

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2. Will anything bring the poodle to heel???

Will this?
I worry Englands troops have gotten a right good screw.