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The Baha Mousa Public Inquiry.
http://www.bahamousainquiry.org/report/index.htm

Link derived from : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14825889

In a statement to the Commons, Defence Secretary Liam Fox said the Army had been guilty of systematic failures but he rejected one of the 73 recommendations of the inquiry's 1,366-page report - that soldiers should not be allowed to shout during interrogations.

He said such actions would only be used in future to "secure swiftly, in appropriate circumstances, the intelligence that can save lives".

Mr Fox added: "What happened to Baha Mousa and his fellow detainees in September 2003 was deplorable, shocking and shameful...

"It was avoidable and preventable, and there can be no excuses. There is no place in our armed forces for the mistreatment of detainees. And there is no place for a perverted sense of loyalty that turns a blind eye to wrongdoing or erects a wall of silence to cover it up."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14825889

Baha Mousa inquiry: Death cast 'dark shadow' over Army

Sir William Gage's inquiry made uncomfortable reading for the Army, with its blow-by-blow account of the violent abuse suffered by Baha Mousa and the other Iraqi detainees in the custody of the 1st Battalion the Queen's Royal Lancashire Regiment in 2003.

Today, the head of the British Army, General Sir Peter Wall, said Mr Mousa's death had "cast a dark shadow" over the Army's reputation and soldiers were now in no doubt about the need to treat detainees humanely and respectfully.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14835527



And later Sky News twitter :
Sky Sources: Any serving officers mentioned in Iraq abuse inquiry could be suspended today.
http://twitter.com/#!/SkyNewsBreak/status/111772384889020417

On live tv news coverage here that's been changed to "WILL be suspended today"