The panel

Rear Admiral Stephen Baker is an analyst at the Centre for Defence Information in Washington. He served in the Gulf war and helped impose sanctions on Iraq

Hans Blix is the executive chairman of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission

Ben Bradshaw is the Foreign Office minister responsible for Middle East policy

Dr Burhan Chalabi is an Iraqi-born British businessman

Charles Duelfer was deputy chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq from 1993 to 2000

Ali Muhsin Hamid, a Yemeni-born diplomat, is the Arab League's ambassador in London

Dr Rosemary Hollis is head of the Middle East programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs

Sir John Moberly was the British ambassador to Iraq from 1982-85, and returned in 1992 with a UN humanitarian mission

John Pike was a military analyst for a Washington think tank

Scott Ritter was an intelligence officer in the US marine corps. After the Gulf war, he was head of the Concealment Investigations Unit which tried to find Iraq's weapons

Paul Rogers is professor of peace studies at Bradford University

Brigadier General Najib Salihi is an Iraqi exile living in Virginia, US, who is a rising figure in the Iraqi opposition

Colonel Terry Taylor is assistant director at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is a former member of the UN inspection team

Judith Yaphe served for 20 years as a senior analyst on Middle Eastern and Persian Gulf issues in the CIA's Directorate of Intelligence