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UK Troops' Families Free From Paying for Iraq War Inquiry Copies

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UK Prime Minister David Cameron frees families of British soldiers who died in the Iraq war from being charged 767 pounds ($1,113) each for a printed copy of the long-anticipated Chilcot report on what led the United Kingdom into the conflict, 10 Downing Street said on Friday.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Sir John Chilcot’s 12-volume report into the United Kingdom’s part in the Iraq war is expected to be published on July 6, seven years after it was initiated and came through repeated delays in publication. The members of the public would have to pay nearly 800 pounds to assess the report, which was condemned by those who lost their loved ones during the operation in Iraq.

"There is no question of families of service personnel who died in Iraq having to pay for copies of the Chilcot report," the spokesman for the prime minster's office was quoted by The Telegraph as saying.

He did not specify how the costs would be covered, to issue a free copy for the families of 179 British soldier, who died in the Iraq War.

The United Kingdom was part of a US-led coalition that invaded Iraq in 2003, without a UN mandate, after accusing former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein of possessing weapons of mass destruction. However, such weapons were never found in Iraq.

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