Tony Blair pressured officials to keep UK soldiers accused of abusing Iraqis out of civil courts, files reveal

Newly released government files suggest former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair put pressure on officials to prevent British soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi detainees from being tried in civil courts, according to reports by British media on Tuesday, Anadolu reports. The documents, released to the National Archives at Kew, west London, reveal that in July 2005, a senior aide wrote to Blair reporting that the attorney general had met army prosecutors to discuss the case against British soldiers alleged to have beaten Baha Mousa to death. Mousa was an Iraqi hotel receptionist who died in British military custody in Basra, Iraq, in Sept. 2003. He was one of several civilians detained at a British army interrogation facility and subjected to […]