Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair could be tried for war crimes in Scotland’s courts, Scottish National Party (SNP)’s Alex Salmond says.
Salmond said on Monday that Blair must face a “judicial or political reckoning” after the publication of the Chilcot inquiry report into the UK’s involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq on July 6.
“The domestic courts, at least in England, have chosen not to pursue crimes which were international. Incidentally, that has not been tested in Scotland,” former Scottish First Minister said.
The Iraq Inquiry, also referred to as the Chilcot Inquiry after its chairman, Sir John Chilcot, was established in 2009 to investigate Britain’s role in the Iraq war and its aftermath that saw British forces remain in the Arab country for six years.
Blair told British MPs before invading Iraq that intelligence showed that Saddam Hussein had “active”, “growing” and “up and running” nuclear, biological and…