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Whilst I would love to see a grovelling apology by Piers Morgan (he is a prat really, and publishing them was bloody irresponsible), I think it's too early yet to celebrate.
The reason the government took so long to hammer the mirror over it was because they think they were reconstructions and therefore I wouldn't be suprised to see the results of these independent investigations bearing out a similar story.
Still, our conduct does look much better than it looked a week ago. It now looks like the army and DoD carried out all the recommendations in the red cross report when they first received it (for example they stopped using hoods) and it wasn't passed up to Ministers because it had all been taken care off. Investigations into the specific allegations in the report are nearing conclusion now because they were started back then, and really the red cross report doesn't mention many specific examples of British abuses, it mostly focuses on specific American ones.
But only time will tell I suppose
[ 05-13-2004, 06:39 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]
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