(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - In sharp contrast to Cameron's claims, ample evidence and scores of documents have drawn a picture of innocent killings, torture, and rape in Iraq at the hands of British troops.
Solicitor Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers, who represented Baha Musa's family, has asserted that he is dealing with 142 cases of alleged mistreatment himself. Horrific examples of indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians and torture could be found among these cases.
The alleged atrocities committed by British soldiers began as early as less than a month after the invasion, in May 2003, when fifteen-year-old Ahmed Jaber Kareem drowned after allegedly being forced into a canal by Guardsmen Martin McGing, Joseph McCleary, and Colour Sergeant Carle Selman.
Furthermore, casual killings started early in the invasion. Corporal Russ Aston, who later died in an assault on a police station in Al Majar, wrote, in March 2003: “I've shot 4-5 Iraqis and one of them were quite young, about 14-15 ... I felt bad at the time, but I'm OK now.”
Among the long list of missing Iraqis, 13-year-old Iraqi boy Memmon Salam al-Maliki's name can be found. On 29 April 2003, unexploded munitions abandoned by the British, near his Basra home, injured Memmon. He was picked up by a passing British patrol and transferred to the British base hospital at Shuaiba. Nothing has been heard of him since.
In October 2010, evidence about killing of an innocent 8-year-old Iraqi girl while playing in the streets rocked British public opinion. A British rifleman shot her dead while other Soldiers were handing out sweets to children.
Human rights campaigners claim these cases are just the tip of the iceberg and one should expect more cases being revealed despite the MoD's all-out attempts to cover up the crimes.
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9 September 2011 - 19:30
News ID: 264606
While the British Premier David Cameron has claimed the findings of the Baha Musa inquiry do not apply to the entire British Army, ample evidence depicts a different picture of the Army.
