Reply to: Al Sweady Inquiry - Is this some sort of joke?

[alluvial]

So we should prove that we're better than them by reducing ourselves to their level?

I don't think anyone's said we should start cutting heads off with a blunt kitchen knife yet.

[woohoo]

The Al Sweady Inquiry into mistreatment of Iraqi insurgents after the Battle of Danny Boy.



FFS
What are the army supposed to do? Sit them down with a nice cup of tea, give them a bit of a cuddle and ask them nicely if they'd mind spilling the beans on their chums?
Maybe all army interrogators should be trained in Spanish Inquisition techniques and have comfy chairs and cushions issued as standard equipment.
You really couldn't make this stuff up.

Well, next time we could save ourselves the trouble, a load more money, thousands of lives and not go invade some random country.

[BolshieBastard]

no but we could have withdrawn legal aid when it appeared the opposition were on a fishing trip. Or better make the lawyers responsible for costs when it was proven they had knowingly lied.

disbar a few "pour encourager les Autres".

Im all for the due process \ course of law and all that. I used to work on Civil Legal Aid when a permie and one of the conditions of a successful claim was they had to have a better than 50% chance of winning in court.

Im not sure if this was persued under civil or criminal LA scheme.

The problem with these shyster ambulance chasing lawyers \ solicitors is, they'd probably pull some other obscure reasons why LA shouldnt be pulled. What makes matters worse, is that the two law firms involved actively went to Iraq touting for business!

[BlasterBates]

No Iraqi official signed a surrender document, the US marched in and occupied it, George Bush stood on an Aircraft carrier and unilaterally declared the war over. This happened in 2004.
So I think these guys should be treated like any other POW's.

[EternalOptimist]

So we should prove that we're better than them by reducing ourselves to their level?

the bastids would end up getting better treatment than the squaddies.

'YOU, YES YOU, you horrible little scouse cnt. put your pigswill down and take that nice mr taliban a cup of tea and a chockie bikky. ask him if hes been naughty'

[tractor]

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So we should prove that we're better than them by reducing ourselves to their level?

Simply notify the world that after 1/1/2015 no prisoners will be taken. Problem solved. You do know they have a choice whether to ambush poeple or cut the heads off aid workers and journalists.

[vetran]

I can imagine where this bleeding heart liberalisation is going but just to be clear, what are you trying to say by 'So we should prove that we're better than them by reducing ourselves to their level?

no but we could have withdrawn legal aid when it appeared the opposition were on a fishing trip. Or better make the lawyers responsible for costs when it was proven they had knowingly lied.

disbar a few "pour encourager les Autres".

[original PM]

To beat the monster you have to become the monster

[BolshieBastard]

I can imagine where this bleeding heart liberalisation is going but just to be clear, what are you trying to say by 'So we should prove that we're better than them by reducing ourselves to their level?

[NickFitz]

So we should prove that we're better than them by reducing ourselves to their level?

[BolshieBastard]

It's not a joke.

They've spent 5 years and £30million on it..

Because the solicitors kept pushing these unfounded claims and their 'clients' kept changing their stories.

Fallon has just said he's referring the two solicitors firms for investigation and attempt to recover some costs. Obviously, its going to be nowhere near the 30 million cost to the taxpayer.

[BrilloPad]

It's not a joke.

They've spent 5 years and £30million on it..

OMG! That's nearly as much as you charge!

[BolshieBastard]

Just shows you cant trust a ******* terrorist. As for their lawyers........

It grips my tulip this nonsense. We send young lads (and girls soon?) to put their lives on the line, pay them, what, £200 a week and fight these terrorist.

Then we expect them to behave like they were in some private club function and behave perfectly after they have been shot at or seen comrades blown up?

Haha, just hearing the lawyers for these iraqi's are to be investigated. Good show, what?

[vetran]

It's not a joke.

They've spent 5 years and £30million OF OUR MONEY on it..

FTFY




Shock horror if you ask terrorists nicely they don't tell you anything.

[alluvial]

It's not a joke.

They've spent 5 years and £30million on it..

Mad isn't it?
Although I am glad that they went to the trouble of disproving the more serious allegations, the findings of mistreatment because they shouted at them is mental.