Iraq Inquiry live: Gordon Brown Faces Grilling -- Times Online
12.16pm It's lunch. See you back here at 1.30pm.
12.15pm “Everybody would like more money than they receive,” Mr Brown says with a knowing smile that encapsulates a decade of saying “no” while he was Chancellor.
12.11pm Sir John is laying the groundwork for the financial dispute. Mr Brown is on very firm ground in these early skirmishes – he is right to say that nobody has made any accusations against the Treasury for failing to meet all funding requests at the start of the war.
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MIDDLE EAST
Shaky start for Iraq vote.
Iraqi Shiites turn prayer meetings into election rallies.
Turkey pulls envoy after U.S. moves to recognize Armenian genocide.
Syria hints Israel planted nuclear traces on its territory.
ASIA
Pakistan: Key Taliban leader 'held in Karachi'.
Afghan war to get tougher: Petraeus.
Engagement pays off in Philippines terror war.
China rhetoric raises threat concerns.
AFRICA
London rebuffs President Zuma's request for lifting of Zimbabwe sanctions.
Grenade blast wounds 16 in Rwandan capital: police.
Vote counting begins in Togo presidential election.
EUROPE
Ferries freed from ice off Swedish coast.
Clashes at Greek protest against austerity.
After banking bust, Iceland turns to free-market innovation.
AMERICAS
Chile quake death toll lowered in revision.
Gunman killed after shooting 2 Pentagon police.
In Haiti, lack of suitable land hampers relocation of quake victims.
TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR
Charming and chilling: Osama bin Laden's bodyguard.
Singapore raises terror alert levels.
German terror trial convicts four for plotting attacks on US targets.
McCain, Lieberman attempt to ban civilian trials for 'enemy combatants'.
ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS
Greek debt crisis could raise problems for U.S. and other countries.
Oil rises to near $81 ahead of key US jobs report.
China economy faces 'crucial' year: Wen.
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China's war rethoric may soon subside and give way to more conciliatory tones: There will be much more hardship soon with a looming Chinese collapse bigger than the Soviet Union's.
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