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11/06/2007
Brown visits besieged Baghdad
Gordon Brown has visited Baghdad as part of a "fact-finding" tour.
The trip is Mr Brown's second to Iraq and he had talks with the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki with tight security.
Mr Brown described the trip as "an assessment more than anything else" to "listen and learn."
He met with senior officers, including British commander Lt General Graham Lamb, US General David Petraeus, US officials, the US Ambassador Ryan Crocker.
The Chancellor, who is prime-minister-in-waiting told reporters: "I think the issue in Iraq is this - how can we help the Iraqi people not only run their own security and build a democracy but offer a prosperity they are perfectly capable of doing?"
Before Mr Brown left Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone", the most heavily guarded area of the capital, it came under mortar fire.
Meanwhile MPs in London are to examine the merits of Conservative calls for an inquiry into the Iraq war.
(SP/JM)
The trip is Mr Brown's second to Iraq and he had talks with the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki with tight security.
Mr Brown described the trip as "an assessment more than anything else" to "listen and learn."
He met with senior officers, including British commander Lt General Graham Lamb, US General David Petraeus, US officials, the US Ambassador Ryan Crocker.
The Chancellor, who is prime-minister-in-waiting told reporters: "I think the issue in Iraq is this - how can we help the Iraqi people not only run their own security and build a democracy but offer a prosperity they are perfectly capable of doing?"
Before Mr Brown left Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone", the most heavily guarded area of the capital, it came under mortar fire.
Meanwhile MPs in London are to examine the merits of Conservative calls for an inquiry into the Iraq war.
(SP/JM)
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