Revealed: MPs to demand end to witch hunt of British troops in Iraq after 10-month inquiry – Telegraph.co.uk

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Mr Mercer, a former Army captain, told The Telegraph: I have made my distaste for the methods and behaviour of Ihat - and the MoDs complicity in it - very obvious over the last year.

The evidence has been clear and I look forward to publishing our report a week Wednesday.

And in a withering attack on Whitehall mandarins, he added: I am pretty clear where the problems lie.

"There is a rotten core of civil servants in the MoD who have made decisions without Ministers or military input, and have in the process demonstrated a disturbing lack of understanding or respect for the more subtle qualities that bind an army together and make men fight for each other or a cause.

Things have improved this year but, prior to my investigation, there was no heed whatsoever paid to how this process has affected our people. That is a deep regret of mine.

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