Iraqgate And Tess Lawrence Burglary

EDM number 1002 in 1992-93, proposed by Ken Livingstone on 03/12/1992.

That this House calls on the Prime Minister to investigate allegations made by the Australian-based journalist Tess Lawrence in an affidavit to Lord Justice Scott that Iraqi intelligence, aware that Matrix-Churchill personnel and others fed information to MI6, MI5 and the CIA, arranged for the transmission of selected disinformation, a consequence of which was the bombing of women and children seeking refuge in the Amiriya shelter, Baghdad on 13th February 1991, herded there by Hussein's regime in the certain knowledge that the site would be targeted as a military installation by the allies, that President Bush was outraged at the bombing since he had instructed his Saudi-based intelligence personnel to downgrade as unreliable British intelligence material culled from businessmen, that, in communications with these personnel, President Bush had also voiced disquiet about Mark Thatcher's business activities which would compromise both the British and American Governments, that when the Americans killed nine British personnel in the friendly-fire incident on 26th February 1991, a deal was done between both countries that neither would press suit on the other over either atrocity and that consequently the right to a full and proper investigation was denied to relatives of both innocent civilians and British soldiers; and further calls for a Home Office inquiry into the burglary on 26th November at 109 New Bond Street, W1 which resulted in the removal of source documentation supporting Tess Lawrence's allegations.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs.