Two Iraqis accused of killing British prisoners of war have been awarded thousands in legal aid to fight being tried in their own country, it emerged today.
Faisal Al-Saadoon and Khalaf Mufdhi allegedly killed Sapper Luke Allsopp and Staff Sergeant Simon Cullingworth in cold blood in 2003, at the start of the Iraq war.
At the time, then Prime Minister Tony Blair described their deaths as an 'execution' and the two men have been held in British custody in Iraq ever since.
Now the Government want to hand them over to Iraq for trial but their lawyers have launched a High Court challenge, claiming this would breach their human rights. [snip]
'Would we have given legal aid to Nazis who committed war crimes? Of course not. This is arrant nonsense,' ...
'What the hell is the point in fighting a way to try and establish democracy in a tyranny and then show a complete lack of trust in the new regime by failing to deliver alleged killers for trial?
'If these men do not stand trial in Iraq it would make a mockery of the blood spilt by British troops in fighting this war.'
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