But the al-Sweady inquiry – named after an Iraqi teenager killed in the battle – found that soldiers were guilty of mistreating detainees, including depriving them of food and sleep, blindfolding them – in breach of Ministry of Defence rules – and threatening them – in breach of the Geneva convention.
At the end of his 1,350-page report, Sir Thayne Forbes, a former high court judge, concludes that the most serious allegations made against the soldiers were “wholly and entirely without merit or justification”.
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