An attempt to secure a wide-ranging public inquiry into how UK forces treated detainees during the Iraq war will be launched today. Lawyers for 66 Iraqis who claim they were abused by British troops are lodging a claim for a judicial review on behalf of all the alleged victims. Birmingham-based legal firm Public Interest Lawyers argues that the cases are so numerous and so similar that Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth must hold a single inquiry into the UK's detention policy in south-eastern Iraq. The allegations include claims that British troops subjected Iraqi prisoners to rape, sexual humiliation and torture.
An attempt to secure a wide-ranging public inquiry into how UK forces treated detainees during the Iraq war will be launched today.
Lawyers for 66 Iraqis who claim they were abused by British troops are lodging a claim for a judicial review on behalf of all the alleged victims.
Birmingham-based legal firm Public Interest Lawyers argues that the cases are so numerous and so similar that Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth must hold a single inquiry into the UK's detention policy in south-eastern Iraq.
The allegations include claims that British troops subjected Iraqi prisoners to rape, sexual humiliation and torture.
But I thought European occupiers were supposed to be so much better than the barbarian Americans... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
AFP - A mortar bomb attack on the last day of a major mourning ceremony in Iraq killed 20 Shiite pilgrims and wounded dozens more on Friday in an atrocity blamed on Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein loyalists. The bomb struck pilgrims who were leaving the holy shrine city of Karbala, 110 kilometres (68 miles) south of Baghdad, where more than a million devotees had gathered to mark the festival of Arbaeen. It was the third major attack this week on worshippers who have for weeks been travelling there on foot for the climax of the event earlier on Friday.
The bomb struck pilgrims who were leaving the holy shrine city of Karbala, 110 kilometres (68 miles) south of Baghdad, where more than a million devotees had gathered to mark the festival of Arbaeen.
It was the third major attack this week on worshippers who have for weeks been travelling there on foot for the climax of the event earlier on Friday.
