The impressive thing is the way government and army spokesmen can keep a straight face while saying that all this happened long ago, and that casual murder of innocent people by the military could never happen today.

Meanwhile the inquiry into the killing of Baha Mousa, the Iraqi hotel worker beaten to death by soldiers in 2003, is taking place round the corner.
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I note that General Michael Jackson, who after Bloody Sunday was associated with the labelling of victim as bomb-throwers and snipers, and later became head of the army, has issued a statement in which he referred to David Cameron's "fulsome apology". Look up "fulsome" in a dictionary. It doesn't mean "full"...