{"id":140887,"date":"2021-10-06T01:51:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T01:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=140887"},"modified":"2021-10-06T01:51:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T01:51:16","slug":"sir-john-chilcot-dead-at-82-kidney-disease-kills-civil-servant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/sir-john-chilcot-dead-at-82-kidney-disease-kills-civil-servant\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir John Chilcot dead at 82: Kidney disease kills Civil Servant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Sir John Chilcot dead at 82: Civil servant who led the damning inquiry into Tony Blair&#8217;s Iraq War dies of kidney disease<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The senior civil servant was chairman of the probe into the failings in Iraq War\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Born in Surrey, he had attended Brighton College and then Pembroke College<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sir John\u2019s career included being a private secretary to three home secretaries\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sir John Chilcot, who led the damning inquiry into Tony Blair\u2019s conduct surrounding the Iraq War, has died aged 82.<\/p>\n<p>The senior civil servant was chairman of the probe into the failings in the conflict, which killed 179 British personnel and tens of thousands of Iraqis.<\/p>\n<p>Sir John died of kidney disease on Sunday. He is survived by wife Rosalind.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Surrey, he had attended Brighton College and then Pembroke College, Cambridge, before joining the Civil Service in 1963.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2021\/10\/06\/00\/48810829-10063095-image-a-41_1633476327139.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sir John\u2019s career included working as private secretary to three home secretaries<\/p>\n<p>Sir John\u2019s career included working as private secretary to three home secretaries and important contributions to the peace process in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>His 2.6million-word Iraq report was long delayed, but when it was finally published in 2016 it was excoriating.<\/p>\n<p>Sir John criticised Mr Blair for his handling of \u2018flawed\u2019 intelligence, for failing to plan for the aftermath of the invasion, and for secret promises given to George Bush committing Britain to the war eight months before MPs voted on it.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10063095\/Sir-John-Chilcot-dead-82-Civil-servant-led-Iraq-War-inquiry-dies-kidney-disease.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John Chilcot dead at 82: Civil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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