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Iraqi Civilian Deaths ... caused by Bush's unprovoked war

 

Senior military investigator found dead in Iraq
(Kim Sengupta, The Independent, 17 October 2005)
A senior British military police officer in Iraq involved in the investigation of alleged abuse of Iraqi civilians by soldiers has been found dead at a camp in Basra. . . . Defence sources said the death was "not due to hostile action and also not due to natural causes". . . . However, it is believed that investigators have not found a suicide note, nor firearms related to the incident. Capt Masters was not receiving any medical or psychological treatment. . . . Friends and colleagues of Captain Masters, who was married with two children, said that his death had come as a "total surprise". . . . After his body was found early on Saturday evening a siren sounded over Basra camp, flares were fired in the air, and all military personnel were confined to barracks. . . . Despite being of middle-rank, Captain Masters was in charge of all serious incidents involving the British military in Iraq. . . . It was not immediately known which particular cases he had been personally involved in investigating. The British military is, however, looking into several dozen cases. . . . Seven members of the Parachute Regiment are on trial for the murder of an Iraqi teenager, Nadhem Abdullah. . . . Several Fusiliers have been convicted at a court martial in Osnabrück, Germany, of abusing civilians and photographing the acts. . . . Some soldiers have been charged in relation to the death of a hotel receptionist, Baha Musa.

posted by LoZo 2:07 PM