{"id":253834,"date":"2016-07-04T13:26:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/blair-could-be-tried-for-war-crimes-in-scotland-salmond\/"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:26:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:26:45","slug":"blair-could-be-tried-for-war-crimes-in-scotland-salmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/blair-could-be-tried-for-war-crimes-in-scotland-salmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair could be tried for war crimes in Scotland: Salmond"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"91\">\n<p><strong>Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair could be tried for war crimes in Scotland\u2019s courts, Scottish National Party (SNP)\u2019s Alex Salmond says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salmond said on Monday that Blair must face a \u201cjudicial or political reckoning\u201d after the publication of the Chilcot inquiry report into the UK\u2019s involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq on July 6.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(40, 30, 30)\">&#8220;The domestic courts, at least in England, have chosen not to pursue crimes which were international. Incidentally, that has not been tested in Scotland,&#8221;<\/span> former Scottish First Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>The Iraq Inquiry, also referred to as the Chilcot Inquiry after its chairman, Sir John Chilcot, was established in 2009 to investigate Britain\u2019s role in the Iraq war and its aftermath that saw British forces remain in the Arab country for six years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#281E1E\">Blair told British MPs before invading Iraq that intelligence showed that<\/span> Saddam Hussein<span style=\"color:#281E1E\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color:#281E1E\">had \u201cactive\u201d, \u201cgrowing\u201d and \u201cup and running\u201d nuclear, biological and&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/07\/04\/473576\/Britain-Blair-Salmond-Chilcot-WMD-Arness\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair could be tried for war crimes in Scotland\u2019s courts, Scottish National Party (SNP)\u2019s Alex Salmond says. Salmond said on Monday that Blair must face a \u201cjudicial or political reckoning\u201d after the publication of the Chilcot inquiry report into the UK\u2019s involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq on July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-253834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}