1,000 UK troops face war crimes charges

1,000 UK troops face war crimes charges


Tony Blair speaks to UK soldiers in Iraq in 2003.

Wed Sep 5, 2012 1:4AM GMT


Up
to 1,000 British soldiers face an investigation into war crimes
allegedly committed during the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the
following occupation of the country.


The charges are mostly based on testimony given by detainees in Iraq
and are related to the abuse and torture of detainees, reported
Antiwar.com.


The report comes as Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu has
called for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former US
President George W. Bush to be tried at the International Criminal Court
for war crimes they committed in the invasion of Iraq.


Bush and Blair invaded Iraq under the pretext that former Iraqi
dictator Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. However,
almost two years after the US-led invasion on Iraq, the CIA’s top
weapons inspector in Iraq said they found nothing of the kind in the
country.


After Baha Mousa, an Iraqi hotel receptionist, was tortured to death
in British custody, a public inquiry found that there were “systemic”
problems related to the treatment of detainees at the hands of British
soldiers.


The Telegraph reported that members of Britain’s Special Air
Service (SAS), Special Boat Service (SBS), interrogators from a unit
called the Joint Support Group, senior officers, and hundreds of
soldiers are to be questioned over their role in the 2003 US-led
invasion of Iraq.

Source:-
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/05/259889/1000-uk-troops-face-war-crimes-charges/