(UK)Families Want Inquiry

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Relatives of soldiers killed during the Iraq war are launching a High Court bid to force the Government to hold an independent inquiry into the legality of the conflict. Military Families Against the War say they want "to bring Tony Blair to account".

They believe the war to have been "based on a series of lies and to be an illegal act". They will ask Mr Justice Collins, sitting at the High Court in London, for permission to seek a judicial review of the Government's decision in May to reject their call for a full public inquiry. Government lawyers turned down their request, and the Prime Minister later said there was no need to go "back over this ground again and again".

The action group represents 17 families who have lost loved ones in the conflict and its aftermath, which has claimed the lives of 98 British soldiers with hundreds injured. The first named applicant is Rose Gentle, from Pollok, Glasgow, whose 19-year-old son Gordon, of the Royal Highland Fusiliers, was killed by a roadside bomb in Basra on June 28, 2004. Another of the applicants is Reg Keys, from northern Wales, father of Lance Corporal Thomas Keys, 20, who was killed in Al Majar, near Basra, on June 24, 2003, while serving with the Royal Military Police.

Mr Keys said recently that parents would not be taking such action "if weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq". He said: "We most strongly feel our sons were sent into a conflict not backed by international law or the United Nations. "They were sent to war on a falsehood, against a background of propaganda of weapons of mass destruction." The families argue that, under human rights laws, if the UK state is involved in the use of lethal force there must be an independent inquiry.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13468277,00.html

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1. Props to these 17 families who

are "launching a High Court bid"..I wish them Well and condolences for their losses in bush and blair's illegal War On Iraq.