# Chilcott inquiry missing evidence ?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 28, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chilcott-inquiry-missing-evidence/735939 "2015-10-28T05:00:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chilcott-inquiry-missing-evidence/735939/1 "2015-10-28T05:00:53Z")

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Can someone say if the Chilcott inquiry asked Simon Mann about this?

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> **Weren’t you also asked to help kick start the Iraq War in 2002?**  
> Yes. A guy called David Hart told me he was friends with the American neocons and asked me to come up with ideas to get the war kicked off. The first was to pick an Iraqi city away from Baghdad, go there with a rebel force made up of 6,000 Iraqi émigrés, take the city, then say, “Yah boo” to Saddam. That would have forced him to come get us and be zapped on the road by the UK and US, or let the flag of rebellion spread.  
> The second was far more criminal. We wanted to buy an old rust-bucket ship, sail it to Karachi, load up secretly with some weapons-grade uranium, or whatever, then sail it into the Gulf with a motley crew, including me. We’d then leak our presence to the Saudis, get the navy to intercept us, sink their ship – hopefully without killing anyone – then sail into Basra. The world would have gone nuts and we’d have had an excuse for war in Iraq.
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> **That’s pretty scandalous.**  
> Well, yes. We actually got feedback from Number 10, via David Hart, that they liked the ideas, but not me. I believed him.

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**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chilcott-inquiry-missing-evidence/735939/2 "2015-10-28T16:18:41Z")

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…I don’t suppose Americans are familiar with Chilcott or Mann.

The [Chilcott inquiry](http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/) is a UK government inquiry into the whys and wherefores of the UK gov prosecution of the Iraq war.

Mann is a now famous mercenary.