The Ministry of Defence has been ordered to hand over any reports by British troops where they suspected US forces in Iraq were mistreating detainees.

The instruction to search for allegations of US military abuse has been authorised by Mr Justice Turner at the high court in London as the bitter legacy of the conflict continues to work its way through the courts.

The latest development could prove highly embarrassing for future US/UK military cooperation if any documents contain critical comments by British soldiers of their American allies.
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The order follows two court hearings before the judge in late October that dealt with claims brought by the law firm Leigh Day on behalf of two, unnamed Iraqi suspects who were arrested in 2008 in Basra, southern Iraq, and handed over to US custody.

It was in 2009 when Brian Muller first met his wife, Amie.

“We actually met at a music venue. And at the time I was playing music in a band and she had some friends there that were at the event,” Muller, 45, from Woodbury, Minn., recalls in a recent interview with Fox News. “Her friends forced her to go out. I forced myself to go out and just to see some music.”

He remembers how they discussed her service with the Minnesota Air National Guard.

“We ended up talking about what she does with the military,” he says, “and at that time, she was doing a project to make video memorials for gold star families. Families that lost loved ones in Iraq or Afghanistan or any type of war.”

Following months of indecision and in fighting between political parties, politicians and their outside backers (US and Iran) a consensus was finally reached over who would be appointed as Iraqs new Prime Minister (PM). Abdul Adel Mahdi was the man chosen to fill this position. Touted across many western media outlets as an independent technocrat outside of the sphere of influence of the US and Iran, the reality is far from this.

What Abdul Mahdi has shown is that he is a political mercenary. His background includes links to Iraqs former monarchy, his involvement with the Baath party, communist and also islamist movements before fleeing Iraq in 1969, only to return in 2003 following the US occupation of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. He then took up various positions within the current failing political system, as Minister for Finance, Vice President, and also Minister for Oil.

His consistent changing political outlook points to where his allegiances truly lie. Prior to taking up his new role Abdul Mahdi was seen in an Iranian promotional advert and since taking power has met with several Iranian high profile figures. His involvement since 2004 in the current US installed political system also highlights the fact he is not the change in guard that many had hoped for and some had claimed he was.

He is further indicted by his involvement with a Baghdad bank robbery committed by his personal bodyguards in 2009. As one journalist, Ahmad Abdulhussein, put it at the time “do they (Iraqis) want a leader who has bodyguards who rob banks and kill?”.