Iraq inquiry: Bremer says UK backed post-war plan
British officials backed the purge of Saddam-era officials, the US administrator of post-invasion Iraq has told the Chilcot inquiry.
Senior British diplomats and Army officers have blamed Iraq’s post-war descent into chaos on Paul Bremer’s policy of de-Baathification.
But Mr Bremer told the inquiry UK officials agreed with it at the time.
Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry met 15 leading figures on a five-day visit to the US last week.
Unlike in the UK, where most of the evidence sessions have been televised, the discussions, conducted between 17 and 21 May, were held behind closed doors.




