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September 21, 2006

MOD failures in casualty reporting

"The statistics provided just do not add up"

The failure by the British Ministry of Defence to report full and accurate information on British casualties, during the war in Iraq has been previously documented by a number of sources. It now appears that the MOD admit that even the system of reporting casualties to the next of kin did not function correctly during the Iraq invasion.

As casualties continue to rise, in both Iraq and Afghanistan, LFCM provides the latest update on their attempts to unravel this bizarre case of continuing official obfuscation.

Posted by andrew on September 21, 2006 9:09 AM in the category UK Policy