NEWS & PRESS
The Guardian, Thursday 4 August 2011 12.42 BST
BBC, 7 July 2011
BBC, 14 June 2011
British Forces News, 25 April 2011
"Investigators examining claims that British troops committed abuses in Iraq have begun interviewing the alleged victims.
The Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) began taking statements last month from the first of over 150 Iraqis who say they suffered violence and ill-treatment at the hands of British forces from 2003 after the invasion of Iraq..."
The Guardian, Saturday 23 October 2010
The Times, 14 July 2009
"Screaming obscenities, a British soldier hauls the hooded Iraqi detainee off the floor and forces him to lean, legs bent, against a wall as other captives, sacks over their heads and wrists bound with tape, groan in discomfort.
The damning images, captured on an amateur-style video, were released for the first time yesterday at the opening of a public inquiry into the death of an Iraqi in British military custody in southern Iraq six years ago"
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Comments
The Gage inquiry into detainee abuse by British soldiers in Iraq judges it to be “a very great stain on the reputation of the army”. A "large number" of soldiers assaulted Mr Mousa and the other detainees, and several officers must have known what was happening but did nothing.
Some just didn't hear the screams of the dozens of victims as they were being tortured for 30+ hours at a time.
A revealing Radio 4 programme examining "how soldiers are taught to kill and the psychological effects of becoming a killer." There's some disturbing and provoking interviews in this, signing over your life and whole personality to be re-programmed by a State to kill strangers...