AFP: An independent commission set up by US President Barack Obama kicked off a two-day meeting in Washington Monday to probe the massive oil spill from a wrecked BP-leased rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The commission — which hears from the US-pointman for the crisis Thad Allen and Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar, among others — will probe the use of controversial chemical dispersants to combat the spill, government decisions made during the disaster and the US moratorium on …