UK must make public Iraq killings’ probe: Analyst

Press TV has interviewed Scott Bennett, a former US army psychological warfare officer in San Francisco, about Britain saying investigations into almost 60 alleged unlawful killings by its soldiers during the Iraq war have been dropped.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: The dropping of these almost 60 cases of these soldiers in Iraq, is it because there literally was nothing to prosecute them over or was this a cover up?

Bennett: Well the first question should be immediately all of the material in these cases, all of the evidence and the incidents should be made public. That should be first and foremost. If there is nothing to hide, then of course it should be given to the population of Great Britain and the world to examine and determine if there were any actions that were illegal, any actions that were violative of the British constitution and personality in the human rights and freedoms that it espouses to champion that it supposedly justified its invasion in the first place.

So if it is being kept secret then obviously there are secrets it wants to keep and it is conspiring the cover up and hide and I think of course there is always crimes that are done in war, of course there are always bloodshed and bad actors that are involved with murder and things that are really horrendous, we have seen it in the United States, we have seen it in the history of world going back to Genghis Khan.

However, that does not allow a turning away from incidents of wrong doing and raping and anything that may be animalistically barbaric as we see in the ISIS (Daesh) Takfiri and what they do every day. We should be doubly careful. So yes, it should be examined. If it is not public, then there is something to hide. I think the biggest thing is this is political cover up for allowing the British and the Americans to try and regain its lost reputation in Syria and trying to continue the Israeli Mossad Zionist agenda of destabilizing Iran. So Britain does not want to have any criticisms. It does not want any sort of wound to be bleeding that they can be picked at.   

Press TV: By not being transparent as far as these investigations go, don’t you think that it is also sending a green light to soldiers in the UK that they can commit and violate rules of war against an occupied population?

Bennett: Well of course it does. That is precisely what it does and it is even embolden more if there is a unanimous prejudice that is behind the training that the superior officers give to the soldiers.

The greatest tragedy in this century has been the false flag events of 9/11 that were used to trigger the 9/11 wars, to trigger the US hegemony into the Middle East and it was the greatest lie on the American people and the people of Great Britain who were led to believe that the Middle Eastern Saudi Arabians had crashed planes … on the World Trade Center tower. Subsequently all the evidence seems to point that that was more of a managed event to justify the neoconservative attempt to dominate the world, to dominate with democracy and capitalism. I think the larger agenda of course was destabilizing the co-enemies of Israel and they have turned this into a continuous unfolding Middle East war.

So that should be examined. There should be Nuremberg Trials and investigations about that, the cause of soldiers who were told to go and fight because they were lied to and then they do bad actions like this. Yes, there is criminality, there is wrong doing but there are a larger people that should be examined like Dick Cheney and George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle … and all sorts of Tony Blair but I think Russia and Iran and China are now positioning themselves and America and Europeans are waking up to this false flag.

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