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Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (11 Jun 2007)

Khalid Mahmood: ...has been proceeding for some time. Hon. Members have mentioned Sir Jeremy Greenstock—he will attend the inquiry to give evidence about tackling what is going on. The number of insurgents in Iraq who are taking action to inflame the situation further has been mentioned. We need somehow to defuse matters and allow the people of Iraq to return to some sort of normality. The actions that...

Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (11 Jun 2007)

Khalid Mahmood: .... We could scrutinise that action, as the Opposition suggest, but I want to tackle what is happening on the ground. How do we engage with people and try to overcome a situation in which innocent Iraqis are killed daily? People lose their lives while they wait in queues for food and for jobs. We need to address that. Are we engaging in policy making with people from the Organisation of the...

Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (11 Jun 2007)

Khalid Mahmood: ...to make a difference. We need to get them engaged in the process. Perhaps that will mean those countries contributing positively through allowing their armed forces to support the training of Iraqi forces, as opposed to American and British forces being targets for the insurgents. We need to examine methods of changing the arena in which our soldiers and the other coalition soldiers...

Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (11 Jun 2007)

Khalid Mahmood: ...have attended the inquiry and Sir Jeremy Greenstock will attend it. People such as Baroness Williams from the upper House serve on it. We are seriously considering how to tackle the situation in Iraq in future. My objection to the motion is that it does not do that. What are the terms of reference of the inquiry that the Opposition propose? Would it tackle what people want it to address?...

Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (11 Jun 2007)

Khalid Mahmood: ...place is that whatever decisions have been taken and whatever has happened needs to be addressed. As hon. Members have said before, an inquiry will have to look at the whole build-up of arms in Iraq. We would have to go back to the Matrix Churchill affair and other issues that have come after it. We would need to see how Iraq was allowed to get itself into the position that it did, and we...

Opposition Day — [14th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (11 Jun 2007)

Khalid Mahmood: ...want a positive way forward, rather than navel gazing and continuous scratching of wounds in order to inflict damage. He realises that we need to move towards a decent future for the people of Iraq. That is the most important thing in any inquiry. What we should do in this place is to look into that very seriously and try to determine how it can happen.

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Iraq and the Middle East (21 Feb 2007)

Khalid Mahmood: I agree with what my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said about the professionalism of our forces in Basra, which has enabled them to come back. I also agree that the real issue in Iraq is to resolve the situation in Baghdad. In order to do that, would he look towards the Organisation of the Islamic Conference—apart from Syria—having a greater engagement?

Opposition Day: [Un-allotted Half-Day] — Iraq (31 Oct 2006)

Khalid Mahmood: Those lives have been taken as a result of action by the insurgents. Our troops are there to make sure that action does not take place. Every day, a huge number of people in Iraq lose their lives, and what Opposition Members have done today is encourage that process. What we need to do— Hon. Members: Withdraw!

Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (24 Sep 2002)

Mr Khalid Mahmood: I welcome my right hon. Friend's commitment to the enforcement of the UN resolutions on weapons inspections in Iraq. Will he affirm his belief that all UN resolutions should be respected, particularly resolutions 242 and 338 concerning Israel and Palestine, which, if implemented with a time scale, would have a far-reaching impact on the stability of the whole region?

Written Answers — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: Iraq (18 Jun 2002)

Mr Khalid Mahmood: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what goods on the Military List have recently been approved for export to Iraq.