Chilcot Iraq inquiry starts five-day visit to US to take evidence from Americans

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Source: Guardian UK

Panel also reveals it has interviewed French politicians including former foreign minister Dominique de Villepin

The Chilcot inquiry is visiting Washington, DC (above), and Boston. Photograph: Paul Owen

Members of the Iraq inquiry have started a five-day visit to the US to take evidence from American officials and military figures, it was revealed today.

The meetings are taking place in private and Sir John Chilcot, the inquiry chairman, has not revealed the names of those meeting his team.

But the inquiry has disclosed that it has taken evidence from various senior French officials and politicians, including Dominique de Villepin, the French foreign minister at the time of the war.

The team met De Villepin and other French witnesses during a one-day visit to Paris on Tuesday 4 May.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/18/chilcot-iraq-inquiry-visit-to-us-dominique-de-villepin