This picture was taken by a British soldier after a firefight near Al Majaar Al Kabir in southern Iraq on 14 May 2004. The Iraqis were interrogated at a British military facility known as Camp Abu Naji. It is claimed that hours after the picture was taken, the four men were transferred to a UK-run detention camp where they were badly beaten and where 20 other civilians were murdered by British soldiers. A Public Inquiry is now underway after years of pressure by lawyers acting for the Iraqi families.
The German authorities are in the shit too in relation to civilian deaths:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,663696,00.html?#ref=rss
General Wolfgang Schneiderhan, the head of the German armed forces, has already quit over this today.
ReplyDeleteThis is what Lord Falconer said aboutthe War in Iraq on Question Time last night...
ReplyDelete'The British government never at any time suggested there was a link between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.'
This is far from the truth. Tony Blair did exactly that in his speech to the Commons when the vote was taken to support military action, on March 18 2003. Here is the quote:
Those two threats [terrorism and states with NBC weapons] have, of course, different motives and different origins, but they share one basic common view: they detest the freedom, democracy and tolerance that are the hallmarks of our way of life. At the moment, I accept fully that the association between the two is loose, but it is hardening. The possibility of the two coming together of terrorist groups in possession of weapons of mass destruction or even of a socalled dirty radiological bomb is now, in my judgment, a real and present danger to Britain and its national security.
Tony Blair, 18 March 2003, House of Commons"