MoD inquiry into 48 suspect Iraqi deaths (UK)

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Independent Digital (UK) Ltd

British military police have opened investigations into the deaths of 48 Iraqis - a jump of nearly a third in the previously disclosed official figure, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.

The Ministry of Defence also admitted on Friday that armed forces police have investigated, or are still looking into, a total of 94 cases of alleged deaths in custody, illegal shootings, injuries and suspected ill-treatment involving British troops. ,,

It has now emerged that the MoD quietly stripped regimental commanders in Iraq of their right to block police inquiries into suspicious deaths in February. Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, is now under intense pressure from the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, to abolish the right of commanding officers to block prosecutions. ..

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"Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men ... The government of Iraq , and the future of your country, will soon belong to you. ... We will end a brutal regime ... so that Iraqis can live in security.”
General F. S. Maude, commander of the British forces, to the people of Mesopotamia , 1917