Exile Sami Ramadani in london. Into bangladesh and saudi arabia, which both suffered isis attacks this week during the final days of the holy month of ramadan. We will speak to islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan in oxford and go to bangladesh. The militant groups are taking our innocent young people and in the name of religion, their misguiding them and sending them to the deathtrap. Islam is a religion of peace. It does not support killing innocent people. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The federal bureau of investigation is not recommending charges against democratic president ial candidate Hillary Clinton over her use of multiple private email servers while she was secretary of state. This comes despite fbi director james comeys saying clinton was extremely careless in her handling of classified information. Although we did not find clear evidence that secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the healing of classified information, there is evidence they were truly careless in their handling a very sensitive, highly classified information. Amy the fbi analyzed 30,000 emails, finding at least 110 that contained classified information at the time they were sent or received. Fbi director comey said a handful of these were marked as classified at the time, a finding that contradicts clintons claims. The fbi found eight email chains containing top secret information. Comey also said it was possible that hostile actors gained access to secretary clintons personal email account. Republican lawmakers and Presumptive Republican president ial nominee donald trump criticized fbi director james comeys announcement the agency would not be recommending charges against Hillary Clinton. House Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted, the announcement defies explanation. Trump said it is evidence the system is rigged. Mr. Trump that our system is absolutely, totally rigged. Amy the fbis announcement came only hours before president obama campaigned alongside Hillary Clinton during a rally in charlotte, North Carolina. Pres. Obama i can tell you this , Hillary Clinton has been tested and there has never been qualified woman more for this office than Hillary Clinton. At the North Carolina rally, president obama and clinton faced protests from teachers demanding the immigrations and Customs EnforcementAgency Release local students who are currently detained and facing deportation. In a statement, the teachers said ice is denying our students the right to an education and preventing many from graduating. North carolina has been one of the states hardest hit by ice raids this year. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton faced more criticism from teachers during a speech at the National EducationAssociations Assembly tuesday, when she provoked booing from unionized teachers by suggesting Public Schools and Charter SchoolsWork Together to improve education. , when schools get it right, whether their traditional Public Schools or public Charter Schools, lets figure out what is working. Lets figure out what is working. And share it with schools across america. We can do that. We have got no time for all of these education wars. Amy the National Education association is the largest teachers union. Its leadership endorsed Hillary Clinton in october 2015, despite protests from some of its rankandfile members, who supported bernie sanders. A jewish employee of a newspaper owned by Donald Trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner has called on him to speak out against antisemitism surrounding trumps campaign. Cheered kushner isnt orthodox jew. He has been a key member of Donald Trumps campaign. In the open letter observer , Entertainment WriterDana Schwartz wrote when you stand silent and smiling in the background, his jewish soninlaw, youre giving his most hateful supporters tacit approval. This comes after trump tweeted an antisemitic image showing Hillary Clinton, a pile of cash, and a sixpointed star of david, along with the words most corrupt candidate ever the image originally appeared on a white supremacist message board. In response to the open letter, jerk kushner wrote them trump does not also scrubbed any racist or antisemitic thinking. Iraq, the inquiry to the iraq war has just been released. The chilcot report is 2. 6 Million Words long, about three times the length of the bible. It blames former british Prime Minister tony blair of deliberately exaggerating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in the lead up to the iraq war. This comes as the interior minister has announced his resignation following the suicide bombing in baghdad that killed as many as 250 people. It was the deadliest bombing in iraq since the 2003 usled invasion. Well have more on sundays bombing and the chilcot report after headlines. In yemen, a suicide car bomber has killed 10 soldiers at a checkpoint near a military base in the Southern City of aden. Yemini Officials Say militants went on to raid the military base, leading to hours of fighting. Meanwhile, at least six people have been killed by two u. S. Drone strikes in southern yemen over the weekend. Yemeni Officials Say the victims were suspected to be members of al qaeda. In south africa, a judge has sentenced olympic and paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius to six years in prison for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. He had been facing a minimum 15year prison term, but today the judge gave him less than half that sentence, citing mitigating factors, such as pistorius remorse. This is the same judge who convicted pistorius to a lesser charge of manslaughter two years ago a charge that was later reversed by a higher court for being too lenient. In baton rouge, louisiana, protests have erupted over the Fatal Police Shooting of 37yearold African American alton sterling. Cell phone video of the shooting appears to show a Baton Rouge Police officer pinning sterling to the ground outside a convenience store, then pointing a gun at his chest. The video then captures the sound of multiple gunshots. A warning to our television audience, this video is graphic. They shot him . Yes. Oh, my god. Amy the east baton rouge coroner says sterling died from multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and back. Hundreds have been protesting in baton rouge since the shooting. Meanwhile, in new rk, attoey general Eric Schneiderman has openedinvestiohe fatal offduty police shootingon the 4th of july. Delrawn small was driving with his girlfriend and three children through east new york, when he and offduty Police Officer wayne isaacs had a confrontation while driving. The police say small then got out of his car and punched officer isaacs in the face, although a witness says it was themall did not and then officer shot small multiple times killing him. This comes as baltimore prosecutors have been dealt another blow in the next trial of a Police Officer charged in the death of freddie gray, who died of spinal injuries sustained in Police Custody last year. On tuesday, a judge ruled prosecutors cannot use evidence of officer brian rices training to make their case during his trial, which begins thursday. His training was key to the prosecutors case. Two Police Officers have already been acquitted on all charges for their role in freddie grays death. And awardwinning iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has died. He was one of the most significant figures in a new wave of iranian cinema that emerged following the 1979 revolution. In 1997, he won the top prize at cannes for his film, taste of cherry. This is kiarostami speaking in 1997. I think even if we have censorship in iran, we should deal with it ourselves. As my father used to say, if youre had brakes, a better break in your own hat. We should not talk about it anywhere else because there is no advantage in it. No one can untie our knots. Or solve our problems. That reason, i never speak about censorship outside of iran, especially for foreign reporters. I often asked them, dont you have your own censorship . Amy kiarostami died on monday of cancer at the age of 76. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Juan and im juan gonzalez. Welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. In iraq, the death toll from saturdays car bombing in baghdad has topped 250, making it the deadliest car bombing in iraq since the 2003 u. S. Invasion. The massive blast targeted shoppers preparing for the eid marking the end of ramadan. A fire then spread to nearby buildings. On sunday, a local resident decried the bombing. Is this eid . Every eid we celebrate. Is this our eid . Is this our eid that everybody celebrates . Is this our eid that we should celebrate . People came to buy close to celebrate eid, now they are buying coffins. May god punish those who are responsible. Amy while iraq is marking the third day of mourning, a longawaited british inquiry into the iraq war has just been released. Future of the official inquiry, sir john chilcot, announced the key findings earlier today. We have concluded that the u. K. Chose to join the invasion of iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at that time was not a last resort. We have also concluded that the judgments about the severity of the threat posed by iraqs weapons of mass destruction, wmd, represented were presented with a certainty that was not justified. Despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated. The planning and preparations for iraq after Saddam Hussein were wholly inadequate. The government failed to achieve its stated objectives. Juan the chilcot report goes on to blame former british Prime Minister tony blair of deliberately exaggerating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. Part of the report includes private correspondence between blair and president george w. Bush. Eight months before the invasion, blair wrote to bush, i will be with you, whatever. In june 2003 less than three months after the invasion began blair privately wrote that the task in iraq is absolutely awesome and im not at all sure were geared for it. Blair added, and if it falls apart, everything falls apart in the region. Earlier today members of the , stop the War Coalition gathered in london to read off the names of iraqis killed since the u. S. uk invasion. Aged 8. 16. Corporal james amy to talk more about the state of iraq today and the newly release chilcot inquiry, we are joined by two guests in london. Tariq ali is a political commentator, historian, activist, filmmaker, author, and editor of the new left review. His most recent book is, the extreme centre a warning. Sami ramadani is an iraqiborn lecturer in sociology. He was a political exile from saddams regime and serves on the Steering Committee of stop the War Coalition. Tariq ali and Sami Ramadani, welcome to democracy now Sami Ramadani, you are an iraqi exile. You live in london. The chilcot report has just come out. Prime minister cameron has addressed it on the floor of the parliament. Sir chilcot has given this report. Talk about his findings. This has been, what, seven years in the making. Basically, i think the chilcot report, from what i have just read briefly about it, it seems it has confirmed what many of us thought. Overwhelmingly, iraqis and middle easterners and people across the world felt long before the war started, actually, that this buildup to the war was being based on false evidence, on exaggerated evidence, on lies. The chilcot report, i think, confirms this. It brings into the open more evidence to prove that point. To that extent, it is not brought something radically new. But it has confirmed and that is important, it has confirmed what we all knew that the iraq war was based on a lie and that it was predetermined. And i think it was on your program that general wesley clark was interviewed i think by yourself, amy, that the pentagon decided within days of 9 11 to have regime change interventions and war in seven countries, in addition to afghanistan. Named iraq, syria, lebanon, somalia, sudan, and finishing off iran. You are looking at the scenario where since the mid1990s, the socalled neocons brought a strategy following the collapse of the soviet union to go on the offensive and topple regimes and expand and secure Important Oil resources and raw materials, cut down any rival competition. In the meantime, iraq as a society, as a state, was destroyed in the cruelest of fashions. Shock and awe, mass crimes on an untold scale since world war ii and the vietnam war, of course. You have a situation where a society, that we had a dictator ruling, it wasnt removing the dictator that was the real objective, but really controlling barak and failing to control it, they eventually destroyed it, just like they are doing in libya and syria and so on. It fits within that scope of the biggest tragedy of all is the loss of life. Over one Million People lost our lives in iraq. The infrastructure is destroyed. The Health Service is destroyed. Educational system, employment at every turn, electricity, clean water, iraq was a fairly advanced country but all of this was destroyed. Ordinary lives of the people were ruined. Sectarianism was encouraged. Terrorism was brought into the country. The terrorism we see today was in fact consciously encouraged so that the usled occupation in britain, of course, could dominate the country and shape its future. Juan i would like to ask i find it difficult sometimes to even emotionally control myself talking about the tragedies that befell the iraqi people. Juan i would like to ask tariq report, response to the especially the sections that talk about blairs honest obsession with regime change, with getting rid of Saddam Hussein. And why did it take seven years to produce this report . It took seven years because it took seven years because every Single Person interviewed had to have a chance to see the report. Blair and his lawyers were looking at the fine print very closely, as was the generals and other people. The findings of the report quite honestly are not very remote kabul remarkable. Theyve already said these were things that were being said by all of us before this war started. It is what virtually every stop the warat the demonstration in london. Tony ben and germany corbyn in particular Jeremy Corbyn in particular have been saying all of this. So to have official confirmation that what we were all saying was right is nice, but it is too little and too late. And because the report had no desire or was not permitted to discuss the legality of this exercise, it means that while there is evidence in the report for independent lawyers to proceed and file a citizens sued, the report does not allow the state to actually prosecute blair for war crimes. He is a war criminal. He pushed the country into this illegal war. His supporters in parliament are trying to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn, who was 100 right on ofs war, backed by the bulk the media. So we are in a strange situation now. The report, i think, will anger lots of people who unlike us are not convinced by the movement that what was taking place was a lie, based on a light, and it was illegal. What is going to happen now remains to be seen, but i would very much hope that independent groups of lawyers and jurists demand now that blair is charged. It is very clear he pushed the war. He forced the Intelligence Services to prepare dodgy doss iers. His attorney general to changing his opinions before he was allowed to address the cabinet. All of that we have in the report. The question is, is anyone going to answer for it or is this just designed to be therapeutic . Juan about the whole issue of the labor leadership in parliament trying to remove Jeremy Corbyn, even though he was one of the most vocal antiwar advocates, and even though the majority base of the Labour Party Still supports him . Well, i mean, it is bizarre. Some people said to me that the reason they tried this coup against jeremy and parliament is so he was not the leader when the chilcot report came out. We will see what he says today at his press conference in three or four