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WATCH: Waiting for Chilcot - an Iraq Inquiry primer

From the day British troops left to the eve of the Chilcot report release, a video history of the UK's inquiry into its involvement in the Iraq war
Then-British PM Tony Blair meets troops in Basra in 2004 (AFP)

More than 13 years after the invasion of Iraq and almost seven years since it began, a report by Sir John Chilcot examining the UK's involvement in the war is finally set to be published on Wednesday.

MEE looks back over the long wait:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x1nyfm3pfk

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