Countdown to War
Between 10 - 20th March the TODAY programme is broadcasting a series looking back at the same day five years ago - each day Sanchia Berg speaks to those involved in, or close observers of, the key events.
Clare Short
March 10: Clare Short, former Secretary of State for International Development, talks about how Tony Blair persuaded her to stay in the government after she'd promised on air to resign over the war.
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Colonel Larry Wilkerson
March 11: Colonel Larry Wilkerson, Chief of Staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell talks about the day Donald Rumsfeld suggested the US might invade Iraq without the UK.
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Sir Jeremy Greenstock
March 12: In the third of her reports looking back at the countdown to war in Iraq, Sanchia Berg speaks to Sir Jeremy Greenstock then Britain's Ambassador at the UN.
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Iain Duncan-Smith
March 13: In the fourth of her reports looking back at the countdown to war in Iraq, Sanchia Berg speaks to Iain Duncan Smith.
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Dominique Moisi
March 14: Our reporter talks to Dominique Moisi of the French Institute for International Relations in Paris about the countdown to the war in Iraq five years ago.
Lindsay German
March 15: Later this morning the stop the war coalition is organising a demonstration in central london to mark the 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq. In the latest of her reports Sanchia Berg speaks to Lindsay German.
Jose Maria Aznar
March 16: The Azores Summit between George Bush, Tony Blair, and Jose Maria Aznar marked a decisive moment in the countdown to war.
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Hans Blix and Margaret Beckett
March 17: In the latest of her reports on the Countdown to War, Sanchia Berg talks to Hans Blix, Head of the UN Weapons Inspectors, and Margaret Beckett, former Secretary of State for Rural Affairs.
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Peter Kilfoyle MP and Elizabeth Wilmshurst
March 18: Sanchia Berg talks to Elizabeth Wilmhurst and the MP Peter Kilfoyle in the latest of her reports on the Countdown to War.
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Abu Mustafa
March 19: Sanchia Berg talks to Abu Mustafa, a Baghdad resident in the latest of her reports on the Countdown to War.
Major General Tim Cross
March 20: In the last of her reports on the countdown to war, our reporter Sanchia Berg speaks to Major General Tim Cross.
Ten Days to War
This week and next Newsnight are making a foray into drama with a series of films entitled 10 Days to War.
"This may prove controversial, but we hope it will also open up the debate about the war in Iraq in new and revealing ways. The issue our viewers most often ask us to revisit is - by some distance - the decision to go to war in Iraq". Newsnight Editor, Peter Barron.
