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The invasion of Iraq - a scathing verdict from

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the long-awaited Chilcot inquiry on Britain's decision to go to war.

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Military action was based on flawed intelligence,

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there was no imminent threat from Saddam Hussein,

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It is an account of an intervention which went badly wrong

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Many of the families of the British troops who died in the conflict

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responded with fury as the catalogue of mistakes was revealed.

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There is one terrorist in this world that the world needs to be aware

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of and his name is Tony Blair. The world's worst terrorist.

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Tony Blair says he accepts responsibility for the mistakes made

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- but still feels he took the right decision.

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I can look, not just the families of this country,

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but the nation in the eye and say I did not mislead this country.

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I made the decision in good faith on the information

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We'll be examining the findings of the Chilcot report,

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and looking at the continuing impact of the Iraq war - 13 years later.

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Our other main news tonight: Wales fans prepare for the biggest game

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in their sporting history, in the semi-finals

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

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The long-awaited Chilcot report has laid out a catalogue of failures

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The scathing verdict on the invasion in 2003,

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says the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, posed

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no "imminent threat", and the military action against him

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The report says Britain went to war based on "flawed intelligence".

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Eight months before the invasion, Tony Blair had said to the US

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President George Bush, "I will be with you, whatever."

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The inquiry also found that post-war planning was "wholly inadequate".

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And in the end, the report says, the intervention went badly wrong,

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This afternoon, Mr Blair said he accepted full responsibility

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for the mistakes made, but he still believed going to war

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Our first report tonight is from our Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

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Those who lead us in. War criminal! Those who loved and lost. And the

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man who took longer than the Iraq war itself to judge what really went

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wrong. Then, not a sound in the Westminster conference Centre, where

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the Chilcot evidence was heard, and where the families waited for a

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final few seconds for the verdict that has taken seven years. We have

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concluded that the UK chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the

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peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at

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that time was not a last resort. Polite but clear and devastating.

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The judgments about the severity of the threat posed by Iraq's weapons

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of mass destruction, WMD, represented -- were presented with a

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certainty not justified. Despite explicit warnings, the consequences

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of the invasion were underestimated. The planning and preparations for

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Iraq after Saddam Hussein were wholly inadequate. The government

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failed to achieve its stated objectives. He found no evidence of

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deceit, but simply the case for war was wrong. The report says it is now

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clear that policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed intelligence

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and assessments. They were not challenged and they should have

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been. And he found a woeful lack of forethought for British forces and

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Iraq's future. Despite promises that Cabinet would discuss the military

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contribution, it did not discuss the military options or their

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implications. Blair did not ensure there was a flexible, realistic and

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fully re-sourced plan. But word troops sent into an illegal war?

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Nowhere in the 2.5 million words of this report was a legal judgment

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made. It was not set up to do so. -- illegal. But the report except the

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conflict may have broken the law. Circumstances in which it was

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decided there was a legal basis for UK military action were far from

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satisfactory. Blair lied! But there was rage outside. War criminal! Some

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anger will never be abated. The report catalogued the growing

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determination of Tony Blair and George Bush to take on Saddam

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Hussein. At the Bush ranch in 2002, a strategy for a UN ultimatum where

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such -- or Saddam would face the consequences. A couple of months

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later, in a previously unseen note, Blair wrote, I will be with you,

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whatever, still urging him to employ the UN. By September, flawed

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intelligence led to this claim. Which could be activated within 45

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minutes. But his determination was stronger than diplomacy. By

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mid-March, the talking was over. The war had begun. Tonight British

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servicemen and women are engaged from air, land and sea, their

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mission, to remove Saddam Hussein from power and disarm Iraq. A

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toppling of the regime that quickly turned to failure. Hopes of a

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transition were turned to dust. British forces without the basics

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they needed, humiliated, according to the enquiry. But Tony Blair, who

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made the decisions, was full of sorrow and regret, but still thinks

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he was right. The decision to go to war in Iraq and to remove Saddam

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Hussein from power, in a coalition of more than 40 countries led by the

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united states of America, was the hardest, most momentous, most

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agonising decision I took in my ten years as British Prime Minister. For

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that decision today, I accept full responsibility. Without exception

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and without excuse. The intelligence assessments made at the time of

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going into war turned out to be wrong. The aftermath turned out to

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be more hostile, protracted and bloody than ever we imagined. The

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coalition planned for one set of ground facts. And encountered

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another. And a nation whose people we wanted to set free and secure

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from the evil of Saddam, became instead a victim to sectarian

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terrorism. For all of this, I express more sorrow, regret and

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apology then you may have no or can believe. There were no lies, there

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was no deceit, there was no deception. But there was a decision

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and it was a controversial decision, a decision to remove Saddam and a

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decision to be with America. The point about being Prime Minister is

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that you are a decision make. You sit in the seat and take the

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decision. Your obligation to the country is to take it as you believe

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it to be. This report is a devastating catalogue of the

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failures of your government and paints a very clear picture of a

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Prime Minister who was determined to act with the United States almost

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come what may. Do you understand the sentiments of some of the families

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who believe you ought not to have said just sorry along time ago, but

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now you should say some kind of punishment? It is true, I took the

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decision after 9/11 we should be America's closest ally. Again, you

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can disagree with that. In the end, what more can I do then say to

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people, this is why I took the decision I did. If you disagree with

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me, fine. But please stop saying I was lying around some kind of

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dishonest underhanded motive. I had the motives I explained.

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Blair lied! Millions died. Some moments of decision, moments of

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protest barely last. Some stir anger and anguish and will never be

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forgotten. The Iraq enquiry may suggest once and for all this was

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never mission accomplished. Laura Kuenssberg, ABC News, Westminster.

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Sir John Chilcot says that plans for any future intervention

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should be calculated, debated and challenged in a way

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His inquiry report runs to 2.6 million words and

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Nicholas Witchell has been looking at it in more detail.

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For month after month, some of the most senior

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figures in the land, ministers, civil servants, military

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leaders and intelligence chiefs, came to give evidence.

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From their testimony and many thousands of documents,

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Sir John Chilcot has distilled his conclusions.

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It is on the use of intelligence that he offers some of his most

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It is now clear that policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed

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They were not challenged, and they should have been.

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In the House of Commons on the 24th of September 2002, Mr Blair

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talked up the credibility of the intelligence

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It is extensive, detailed, and authoritative.

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According to Mr Blair, Saddam Hussein could activate his

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chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes.

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The judgments about Iraq's capabilities in a statement

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and in the dossier published the same day were presented

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with a certainty that was not justifiable.

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Not only was intelligence flawed, so too with the discussions

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The Attorney General at the time was Lord Peter Goldsmith,

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but it is clear from the report that time and again, the Cabinet

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was denied a chance to hear his detailed arguments.

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One such an occasion was a matter of weeks before the invasion began.

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And so to the chaos of post-invasion planning and another

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According to the report Mr Blair 's government was warned explicitly

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of the risk that an invasion would destabilise Iraq and leave

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And as British forces faced the growing Iraqi insurrection,

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the government failed to equip them properly.

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We have found that the Ministry of Defence was slow in responding

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to the threat from improvised explosive devices and that delays

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in providing adequate medium weight protective patrol vehicles should

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Britain's invasion of Iraq has been minutely scrutinised.

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Sir John Chilcot has found that it was an unwarranted invasion,

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based on flawed intelligence, with insufficient discussion

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It was an intervention which he said had caused anguish and suffering

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The evidence is there for all to see, it is an account

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of an intervention which went badly wrong.

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Nicholas Witchell, BBC News, at the Iraq enquiry.

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More than 150,000 people died in Iraq during the war,

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and in the years that followed - among them more than

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For years many of their families had campaigned for an inquiry

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so they could finally find out the truth about why Britain

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Fergal Keane reports now on the families' reaction

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The bereaved have injured seven years of painful waiting and hoping

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for truth. Debbie Albright and her son were on their way to hear Sir

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John Chilcot speak. Steven all but, husband and father, was killed in

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Iraq in 2003. In the last few days, the trauma has returned. It has

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brought a lot of memories back. I dreamt I saw Stevie May shop. What

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do you want from this report? I am just hoping we find out why we went

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in and why we went in so quickly as well. In the quiet of nearby

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Westminster Abbey, former SAS man John Brown was remembering his son,

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Nick, also an SAS trooper. He wanted answers about the justification for

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going to war. We want to know what the enquiry says about the entry,

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the reasons to go to war. That is where the key questions are. I know

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they did not have an exit strategy. A the families came here looking for

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the truth that named names and apportioned blame. Well, they've now

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had a chance to consider the report's main findings. The families

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gathered here trust that we speak with honour and honesty. The

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families say they will study the conclusions and decide whether to

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launch legal action against Tony Blair. There were raw emotions. I'm

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going back to that time when I learned that my brother had been

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killed and there is one terrorist in this world that the world needs to

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be aware of and his name is Tony Blair. The world's worst terrorist.

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But there was a welcome for the reports findings from the families.

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What is your reaction to what you heard? Amazed, I didn't expect it to

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be as good an outcome, really. I thought we would have a bit of cover

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up or something. Sir John Chilcot has done us a good job. I'm really,

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really pleased with the outcome. It's good news but at the same time

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it's bad news as well because I think if Tony Blair was on the Prime

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Minister at the time, I think my dad could still have been here today.

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The former SAS man John Brown watched Tony Blair's response this

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afternoon. For all of this, I express more sorrow, regret and

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apology. Tony Blair has just apologised. What does that mean to

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you? It's a joke. He is putting on an act. The Chilcot report has not

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given the families all the answers they sought, but it has restored

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some measure of their faith in British public life.

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The violence which erupted in Iraq in 2003 has continued to this day.

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And Sir John Chilcot underlined the suffering of the Iraqi people,

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including a million forced from their homes,

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As our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, reports from Baghdad,

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the war sent shockwaves across the entire region.

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The people of Baghdad and the rest of Iraq are still living and dying

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with the consequences of the 2003 invasion.

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Security is being beefed up yet again after the bomb that killed

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But the fear of a sudden random death is never far away.

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When the US forces reached Baghdad in April 2003, pictures of them

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helping Iraqis topple a statue of Saddam Hussein went

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Hadi Al Jabari started knocking lumps out of the plinth to celebrate

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Now like many Iraqis, he's nostalgic for the brutal

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TRANSLATION: Saddam has gone and we now have 1000 Saddams.

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If Tony Blair was here this morning, what would you say to him?

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TRANSLATION: I would say to him, you are a criminal.

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Less than an hour's drive from Baghdad, these are Iraqi Shia

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militiamen, trained and equipped by Iran,

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Chilcot says the British Government ignored a warning that removing

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Saddam would offer Iran an opening in Iraq.

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Captured IS positions seemed to have been prepared by trained soldiers,

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IS commanders include former Iraqi officers who joined

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the jihadists when the US and Britain dissolved the Iraqi army.

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Not all of the chaos, violence and war in the Middle East

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at the moment can be traced back to the invasion of Iraq in 2003,

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It was like throwing a great big rock into a pond,

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it sent out shock waves, geopolitical, religious,

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And 13 years later, they're still crashing around the region.

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Warnings about internal strife, regional instability and the rise

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of jihadists were also ignored by Number Ten, says Chilcot.

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Iraq's sectarian violence spread to Syria, Yemen, and elsewhere.

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As leaders used and abused Shia Sunni fears to fight for power.

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Jihadists were on the attack before the invasion.

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But Iraq after 2003 offered Al-Qaeda haven and launch pad that Islamic

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Small numbers of British troops who we filmed on condition

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At this base, Australians and New Zealanders

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It is a long way from what Chilcot caused the humiliating

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end of an intervention that went badly wrong,

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But first, our Security Correspondent, Gordon Corera,

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is at MI6 headquarters in central London.

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How damaging is this reporter for the intelligence services? Well,

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there was a colossal intelligence failure when it came to Iraq. We

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knew that already but what we got from the Chilcot enquiry was really

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stunning new details about the nature of that failure. Let me give

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you one example. In September 2002, just as the dossier was being drawn

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up, MI6 here thought they had a new agent who was providing intelligence

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on Iraq chemical and biological weapons who promised them more

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details in the near future. And yet, soon suspicion emerged about that

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agent and, in fact, one person even in government suggested that it

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looked odd that this agent Michael Bost ascription is of chemical

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weapons were nothing like real chemical weapons but instead looked

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identical to the descriptions in Hollywood films, in other words that

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agent was a fabricator and he wasn't the only one making up the

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intelligence on Iraq 's WMD. Not the only failure but a challenge to the

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assumptions of intelligence even when the inspectors found nothing

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and to challenge the government, Tony Blair, when he said the

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intelligence was beyond doubtful well, it wasn't. All of that

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together has left a damning legacy of trust in government as well as

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spies. Gordon, thank you. John Simpson, this investigation has

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taken years to complete. How long lasting with impact be? Far more

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than seven years it took. I think we looking at the decades. Let's look

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at the individual elements of it. I think you've got to go back to 1956,

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the Suez crisis, which brought Britain's history as a colonial

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power effectively to an end. To see anything comparing all. Iraq, I go

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there a lot. As often as I possibly can. It is a damaged, deeply, deeply

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damaged society, as we saw in Jeremy's piece. The damage goes

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right through, it's not going to recover quickly. The United States,

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well, it got involved because after 911 it wanted to show it was still

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the dominant military power so it took on a country which looked

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strong but actually wasn't. Iraq. And yet, within a few years, the

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Americans were having to say, we can't fight two medium-sized wars at

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the same time. Britain will never be quite as close to the USA again.

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Certainly we won't just automatically follow what they do.

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And I think you can say there is a line to be drawn from 2003 and the

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invasion right through to a couple of weeks ago, that cynicism about

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politics in this country, I think fed into the whole business of the

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EU referendum. John Simpson, thank you. Some other news for you now.

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The South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is back in prison

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tonight after he was sentenced to six years in jail for the murder

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A court overturned his original conviction for manslaughter last

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year, instead finding him guilty of murder.

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Pistorius shot Ms Steenkamp four times through a locked

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He said he had mistaken her for an intruder.

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The pound fell to a new 31-year low against the dollar today

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amid continuing concerns about Britain's economy

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following the vote to leave the European Union.

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Sterling slumped below $1.28 for the first time since 1985 before

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There were also falls across many of Europe's

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It's the biggest game in their history.

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Wales take on Portugal in the semifinals of

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More than half the population of Wales are expected

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to watch the match in Lyon as Hywel Griffith reports.

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With a roar that fills the streets of Leon, Wales is on an all-time

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high. So new to success, so hungry for more. Very confident. He is very

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confident today. I'm cautiously optimistic. Having never reached the

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semifinal before, history has already been made. Now thoughts on

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the future. It's not just about now, we want to qualify for the next

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World Cup and the next major tournament after that, but also

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inspire younger kids. We want to get more people playing football in

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Wales which ultimately will be better players, more players to

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choose from. For this team, it's been a journey to test emotions.

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Many made their debuts in former manager Gary speed. His death formed

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a bond which has proved a unbreakable. Gary 's father will be

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at tonight 's game. Very emotional, it is. He is watching, I'm sure he

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is, up there watching. It's fantastic, brilliant. You are the

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proud dad, watching? Are very proud dad, yeah. Stronger together has

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been Wales' motto, happily mixing with the fans of every opposing

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team. Somewhere along this journey things have changed for Welsh

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supporters after decades of dealing with defeat. Now everyone seems to

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believe maybe this is not the end of the line, maybe they could go all

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the way to the final in Paris on Sunday.

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CHEERING Our correspondent Sian Lloyd

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is with fans in Cardiff. What a night ahead. Absolutely,

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Sophie, because the fans at home has been following and savouring Wales'

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journey every step of the way and the atmosphere here in Cardiff

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really building this evening. The principality Stadium, home of Welsh

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rugby, has been transformed into a football fan zone and the gates will

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be opening very, very soon. There are fans zones set up up and down

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the country. Yesterday, 20,000 tickets were released for here and

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they were snapped up within 90 minutes. 7500 were released today

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and they went in half an hour. From inside the stadium denied, and of

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course in France, from the Welsh fans, we can expect some fantastic

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singing, cheering and perhaps some nail-biting come to, because this

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really is a pinch me territory for Wales. It is a story would have

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captured the imagination of the nation and one that these fans hope

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won't end tonight. Thank you. Time for a look at the weather

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with Matt Taylor. Thanks, soapy. I think the fans have

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got the best deal in France. 27 degrees, not doing too badly across

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southern parts of the UK. It's been a different story north and west.

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The cloud has been thickening up and rather grey and gloomy skies. At

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least the rain has held for many in northern England so far but further

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north, across Scotland, the rain has been coming down through much of

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this afternoon. A lot of it has eased off for the time being.

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Northern Ireland, damp evening. Wet elsewhere through Scotland and

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Northern Ireland. Rain spreading to the Shetland Islands after a lovely

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day in the sunshine. Northern England, rain across northern and

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western parts of Wales, but because the wind is coming from the

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south-west, unlike last night, a good deal milder, temperatures

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holding in the mid teens. Expect plenty of cloud in northern England,

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the North Midlands and Wales through the day. Patchy drizzle on and off.

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Turning heavier through the south-west later. A wet start in

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Scotland, turning to blustery showers. Sunshine across Northern

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Ireland, and temperatures in eastern areas up to around the low 20s.

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22-23 in the south-east of England. Sunshine breaking through the cloud

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now and again. As they go through Thursday night into Friday, a great

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start. Occasional rain and drizzle through the day. For those heading

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to Wimbledon, bear that in mind. Showers starting to these and the

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afternoon should be dry and brighter. Once the sun is out,

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feeling quite pleasant. The next batch of rain will then take it into

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the next part of the weekend. For some of you, this low-pressure over

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my shoulder coming in, will bring a windy start of the weekend as well.

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Thank you.

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