Iraq War: The English court refuses to investigate Tony Blair

The British Supreme Court has blocked the bid to privately investigate former Prime Minister Tony Blair's war on Iraq. The former British executive leader was charged by former Iraqi General Abdul Wade Chanan Al Rabbat for conducting “Aggression” occupying Iraq in 2003.

Despite the prosecution, however, such a crime does not exist in England or Wales, and the court ruled that there is no prospect for this matter to continue successfully.

BBC reports general has requested the investigation of Blair, former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, as well as former Chief General Lord Goldsmith.

Meanwhile a year earlier, the Westminster Magistrates court had rejected Al Rabbat's request to launch a private investigation.

The latter called for a judicial review in an effort to reach the Supreme Court, the highest in Great Britain, to reverse the 2006 decision of the House of Lords that there was no such crime as that of aggression based on the laws of England and Wales.

The case has also been reacted to by Britain's chief prosecutor, who had intervened, prompting the Supreme Court to block this indictment with justification that it was hopeless.

Responding already after the decision, a spokesman for the Prosecutor General's Office said the case in question has raised “important issues on the scope of criminal laws”.

“Should be handed over to the Parliament, not to the courts, to establish new criminal offences. This principle was considered when the Chamber of Lords decided in 2006 that the crime of aggression did not exist in English laws. In this legal challenge, we argued that this base was still in modern times, so the court agreed with us”, the spokesman for the Prosecutor General's Office said.

In 2003, Great Britain joined the United States - led coalition to overthrow Saddam Hussein after US President George W. Bush and Tony Blair accused Iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction.