Team set up by the government will not proceed in dozens of cases days after David Cameron calls for halt to ‘spurious claims’Officials have decided to drop investigations into nearly 60 claims of illegal killings by soldiers who served in Iraq.
The Iraq historic allegations team (Ihat),set up by the last Labour government in 2010 to examine claims of murder, abuse and torture during the Iraq war, or has decided not to proceed in 57 cases,the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. A further case was stopped by the military’s service prosecuting authority.
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Source: theguardian.com