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Screengrab from SkyNews' coverage of David Kelly's testimony before the UK's Foreign Affairs Select Committee meeting on 15 July 2003, two days before his death.

A Forgotten Casualty of the Iraq Invasion

Lies, Law and Liquid Gold

T.J. Coles March 23, 2025

David Kelly’s lifeless body lay on Harrowdown Hill, Oxfordshire, England. The dead doctor was a microbiologist working for the British Ministry of Defence. Kelly was said by the Tony Blair government to have taken his own life four months after Britain and America invaded Iraq in March 2003. The illegal occupation of the oil-rich Middle […]

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T. J. Coles is director of the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research and the author of several books, including Voices for Peace (with Noam Chomsky and others) and  Fire and Fury: How the US Isolates North Korea, Encircles China and Risks Nuclear War in Asia (both Clairview Books).

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