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January 13, 2010 Frans Bieckmann

Yesterday, the Davids Commission – a high-level group of independent experts appointed by the government – presented its report into the Dutch decision-making process regarding the invasion of Iraq in 2003. This came after a year of research, including secret documents. They came up with some quite heavy conclusions: There was an insufficient international legal basis for the invasion. Repeated warnings by Dutch intelligence services that the information received by other – mainly Amer...   read more >>