Iraq anniversary call over troops

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The war has claimed the lives of 175 British service personnel, nearly 4,000 Americans, 210 journalists and media assistants, and an estimated 90,000 Iraqi civilians.

And the bill to the British taxpayer for military operations in Iraq is more than £6 billion - more than £100 for every man, woman and child in the UK.

Campaigners including the Stop The War Coalition (STWC), CND and the British Muslim Initiative will stage a vigil outside Downing Street and deliver a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown demanding a public inquiry into the conflict, with access to all government papers and minutes of cabinet meetings as well as the power to question former premier Tony Blair.

They are also urging people to hold a minute's silence at noon in remembrance of the civilians and soldiers who have died in the conflict.

The letter to Gordon Brown describes the Iraq war as "disastrous" and calls for March 20 to be declared International Peace Day.

Few decisions divided public opinion so sharply as the decision to topple Saddam Hussein.

A month before the bombings began, on February 15 2003, STWC led the UK's biggest ever demonstration, with organisers claiming that up to two million people attended the London protest.

British troops helped invade Iraq as part of multi-national task force.

At the peak of the operation, some 46,000 British servicemen and women were deployed, dropping to 8,600 after the initial invasion. At present there are around 4,000 British troops in Iraq, the majority based in Basra.