A wanton cover-up No British soldiers found guilty in murder of Iraqi worker
Simon Whelan, WSWS
On September 14, 2003, Baha Musa, a 26-year-old hotel receptionist and father of two, was detained along with several others in a raid by the Queens Lancashire Regiment in the Haitham Hotel in Basra. Over the course of the next 36 hours, Musa was humiliated, starved, robbed, forced to drink his own urine, choked and repeatedly pummeled by perhaps dozens of British soldiers. He died as a result of the sadistic abuse. Last month, a six-month court martial ended with the acquittal of the soldiers charged in Musa’s death. This was despite the Ministry of Defence using a High Court judge and leading barristers quizzing more than 100 witnesses...
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On September 14, 2003, Baha Musa, a 26-year-old hotel receptionist and father of two, was detained along with several others in a raid by the Queens Lancashire Regiment in the Haitham Hotel in Basra. Over the course of the next 36 hours, Musa was humiliated, starved, robbed, forced to drink his own urine, choked and repeatedly pummeled by perhaps dozens of British soldiers. He died as a result of the sadistic abuse. Last month, a six-month court martial ended with the acquittal of the soldiers charged in Musa’s death. This was despite the Ministry of Defence using a High Court judge and leading barristers quizzing more than 100 witnesses...
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