u.k. ministry of defense has yet to present its argument in court but refused to order a new inquiry into these allegations do you think the government is afraid of a public inquiry i think it's worth saying that there is a new government since the events that happened the ministry of defense is is certainly very much opposed and very much afraid of a public inquiry i'm not so sure about the government and the politicians the secretary of state for defense liam fox has said that he has an open mind if things come out that might actually justify a wide range of you that they will allow that but i think the ministry of defense the civil servants the soldiers they always fight tooth and nail against any public inquiry and they were going to inquiries that you referred to earlier that were really been set up they've been allegations that they withheld information from from court proceedings previously they really don't want another inquiry like this while this investigation. of the current inquiry on the u.k.'s involvement in iraq . well it's interesting that i've been following the iraq inqui

u.k. ministry of defense says it's investigating the claims but as journalist chris ames believes the british military service is afraid of a public inquiry. the claims are that soldiers used a range of techniques to humiliate and terrify iraqi detainees into giving information to them there's allegations of sexual abuse sexual humiliation stress positions prevail and starvation a number of techniques in theory banned by britain have been put under the geneva convention but the allegation isn't just that soldiers use these techniques but that they were systemic the rules around it and they were part of a deliberate policy that was that was widespread rather than just being the actions of a few bad apples at the ministry of defense he is certainly very much opposed and very much afraid of a public inquiry the secretary of state for defense liam fox has said that he has an open mind if things come out that might actually justify a wide range of you that they will allow that but i think the ministry of defense the civil servants the soldiers they always fight tooth and nail against any public in

u.k. ministry of defense says it's investigating claims and there's no need for a public inquiry such probes already been launched for two such similar cases involving the alleged torture and murder of civilians by british soldiers phil shiner one of the lawyers taking the current case to the high court in london says abuse is widespread and any inquiry has got to be public there's no doubt that this is systemic within the interrogation. policy because we have those documents from the bar inquiry so we know for example that there was a policy of getting them naked get the make you keep them like you do if they don't cooperate the way in which there was still be searched the harshing we have video. the training video of us on the bomb mission quite a website this is clearly systemic issues and it's absolute nonsense to me. is a few bad apples that's the interrogation also needs to be exposed and we need to ensure all but we never go into theatre again with with an interrogation policy which is blatantly unlawful poverty and a lack of opportunities in iraq forced many to make a living illegall