Posted on 10/23/2010 12:45:27 PM PDT by WebFocus
Britain's role in the alleged torture and unlawful killing of Iraqi civilians may be the subject of legal action following the publication of nearly 400,000 leaked military documents by the website WikiLeaks.
British lawyers said the classified US army field reports embroiled British as well as American forces in an alleged culture of abuse and extrajudicial killings in Iraq. Solicitor Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers, appearing alongside WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at a press conference in London today, said some of the deaths documented in the reports may have involved British forces and could now go through the UK courts.
The Iraq logs, Shiner said, indicated that UK as well as US commanders were likely to have ignored evidence of torture by the Iraqi authorities, contrary to international law. He said: "Some of these deaths will be in circumstances where the UK have a very clear legal responsibility. This may be because the Iraqis died while under the effective control of UK forces – under arrest, in vehicles, helicopters or detention facilities."
A number of the documents detail allegations of abuse by UK soldiers. Two reports dated 23 June 2008 describe claims by two Iraqi men – both Shias – that they were punched and kicked by unidentified British soldiers. Both men, according to the reports on the WikiLeaks website, suffered injuries that would have been consistent with their claims. There is no apparent record of an investigation of the allegations.
The Ministry of Defence condemned the actions of WikiLeaks, adding that it investigated any allegations made against British troops. It said: "There is no place for mistreatment of detainees. Any civilian casualty is a matter of deep regret and we take any incidents extremely seriously."
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I must have missed all the legal suits brought against the Taliban and Al Qaeda Islamofascists. Islamofascists...hmmmm...can I still say that in America?
He has correspondents in the United States who also become by logical extension ENEMY.
Seems to me they would be fair game for any sort of take-down now.
The little homo from wikileaks already said that anyone that worked with the Americans was guilty of treason and he wouldn’t be too concerned with their deaths.
He’s a French maggot. I wouldn’t have expected less. The French are a lost cause.
The Iraq prisoners probably had a fight over whose fault it was that they got caught, then when asked about who did it, they blamed the Brits.
So, the Brits let Julian Assange into the country, but won’t let Geert Wilders in? Or is this just the new government letting everyone in?
Maybe we should hold the Brit ambassador hostage until they give this puke up.
That's what ambassadors are for anyway.
I’m afraid that these days, the British Conservative Party isn’t much better than Labour in drag.
I think he’s an aussie maggot actually.
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