In a suite of rooms in a ‘safe house’ in a city in southeastern Europe, investigators employed by the British government have been interviewing a stream of Iraqi civilians for the past 18 months. The questioners are members of the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) and the men and women they are seeing are victims or witnesses of alleged unlawful killing and serious abuse at the hands of British forces serving in Iraq between 2003 and 2008. The whole process is codenamed ‘Operation Mensa’.
Every month, a small group of IHAT staff travels to the safe house with a psychologist and …read more
Source: Newsweek
