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"Chilcot Inquiry Into Iraq War May Be Delayed Until 2016"
A long-awaited report by the inquiry into the Iraq War may not be published this year, according to reports.
BBC Newsnight said the much-delayed findings of the Iraq Inquiry into the background to the 2003 conflict had been held up by the process of Maxwellisation - giving individuals criticised in the report a chance to respond - which had become a "nightmare".
Newsnight's defence and diplomatic editor Mark Urban quoted a source close to the investigation as saying "nobody thinks it will come out this year".
The inquiry's chairman Sir John Chilcot has been forced to defend delays after he said in January it would not be finished before May's General Election.
Prime Minister David Cameron has been among those expressing frustration that the report has yet to be finalised, more than five years after the inquiry, which took evidence from its last witness in 2011, was launched.
The BBC quoted the source as saying
"once they had failed to meet the pre-election deadline, they gave up trying to speed things up".
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