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Updated on 18 June 2009

By Gary Gibbon

The process of gathering evidence in the government's Iraq war inquiry could now be held in public.

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The inquiry, which was announced on Monday, was to have been held behind closed doors.

But now Downing Street says it will be up to the inquiry chairman, Sir John Chilcot, to decide how the inquiry should be structured in order to establish the truth.

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