Sunday, May 09, 2004

Coalition of the Collusive

New reports have implicated a second British unit in the abuse claims. Added now to the Queen's Lancashire Regiment is the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. It's definitely not just a few bad apples, but rather pretty much the whole barrel, in case you had any doubts left.

And please don't try to tell me that the highest levels of British command (up to and including Tony Blair) were not in discussions with the highest levels of U.S. command (up to and including George Bush) about this. Well, maybe they really don't tell the Oaf anything - plausible deniability and all that, not to mention the fact that he apparently likes to be ignorant.

At any rate the idea that the top, top military command of both countries were not discussing the situation is totally unbelievable, considering the British involvement at Abu Ghraib and the Red Cross reports to both countries.

The news that UK troops were based at Abu Ghraib raises further disturbing questions about what the British military knew of the abuse going on there. A Downing Street spokesman last night confirmed that the Red Cross drew their attention to allegations of abuse earlier in the year.

The spokesman said: "The International Committee of the Red Cross showed the government a copy of the report in February to enable the government to comment and take action on this."

He said the Red Cross informed the government because parts of the report concerned areas of British responsibility. He refused to reveal what action was taken.
  Iraq Net article

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