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A JUDGE investigating allegations that an Iraqi teenager drowned after being thrown into a river by British troops in 2003 said the “invaluable” radio logs of the incident are missing.
Sir George Newman told a directions hearing attended by the soldiers’ lawyers and – by video link – the father of Saeed Shabram, the dead teenager, that he still does not have access to the logs.
The hearing, which took place earlier this month, was interrupted by power cuts as Mr Shabram tried to observe from Iraq.
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion
MOLLY QUELL reports on the sanctions placed on International Criminal Court officials by the Trump regime, making it increasingly difficult for the tribunal to conduct even basic tasks