A few hundred metres from the police station is the bazaar, where battered trucks were yesterday unloading produce. There are no bullet scars here, but 24 hours earlier a disastrous incident led to claims that five Iraqi men died under British gunfire and sparked the later firefight at the police station.
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The only thing that occurs to me it does not discuss is compensation. The UN noted before the invasion that occupying powers are responsible for the basic safety of civilians. The British government should be sued for Iraqi as well as British losses.
Chris Burford London
