"The Egyptian parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs after reviewing Chilcot report came to a conclusion that everyone who was involved in Iraq's distraction and destruction of its statehood, regardless of their position, should be tried for war crimes. The report of the Committee soon to be reviewed at the Parliament," Ali Abdel Aal said.
On July 6, Sir John Chilcot revealed a report on the United Kingdom’s role in the 2003 war in Iraq. After the publication of the report, the Committee of the Egyptian Parliament called on the UN Security Council to request the International Criminal Court to hear a trial against both Blair and Bush for war crimes related to the invasion of Iraq. The Egyptian lawmakers urged the international community to assess the economic and political damage done to Iraq over the years following the invasion and to demand compensation from London and Washington.
The United Kingdom was part of a US-led coalition, which also included Australia and Poland, that invaded Iraq in 2003, without a UN mandate, after accusing then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein of possessing weapons of mass destruction, which were never found. The report by Sir John Chilcot concluded that the United Kingdom's decision to join the war was taken on the basis of flawed intelligence data and assessments.
