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Behind Chilcot: Son’s Iraq death ‘ripped my heart out’
Ahead of the publication of the Chilcot report – the long-awaited report into the Iraq War - 5 live has been speaking to the people behind the headlines.
Rose Gentle’s son, Royal Highland Fusilier Gordon Gentle, was killed in a bomb blast in Basra in 2004 aged 19. He had been in Iraq three weeks.
Rose said Gordon’s death had “ripped her heart out,� and left her asking questions about why and how he was killed.
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