The transcript itself read that way-as a trial. But then as I read through the transcript I realized there was no need to do so.

I thought I would write a play based on the declassified transcript of this hearing by the UK Government on January 14, 2011. What happened when and who was where when it happened-and who and what event caused the next one.Īs I started to search out articles about Emma Sky, I came across one of the declassified transcripts from the Iraq Inquiry Committee-the Committee's questioning of her role in Iraq. To understand how such a catastrophe, could have been unleashed we must shed a light on the characters who played a critical role in its making. In November 2009, a couple of years before this testimony was taken, an article was published about Emma Sky, it read: Rarely does the hulking commander of American forces in Iraq meet with Iraqis or go to a news conference without a slight, dark-haired woman standing just a little to one side - as if to give him space, but almost always in his line of sight and within earshot' ( here and here).Įmma Sky-the woman who assisted in the unravelling of Iraq and the region, who became the right hand of General Odierno in Iraq-and the architect of the ‘Sunni Awakening'-is perhaps, the Mother of Daesh, the word for terror in Iraq and Syria and the entire region or as the West calls it, ISIS. ‘We will be taking evidence from you today in your roles as Governorate Coordinator for Kirkuk, and then Governance Advisor to CPA North from 2003-4, and your subsequent role as an advisor to the US military, both General Odierno and General Petraeus, between 2007 and 10.' So said, Sir John Chilcot, Head of the Iraq Inquiry, to Emma Sky at the start of her testimony to the Iraq Inquiry Committee on January 14, 2011.

The Unraveling by Emma Sky