No action on Gulf War detainees (1)
01 January 1991
No action on Gulf War detainees
artdoc February=1992
An internal inquiry into the detention of 90 innocent Iraqis
during the Gulf War has concluded that no action should be taken
against MI5, the Special Branch and Immigration officials who
drew up the list. The inquiry was made by Sir Philip Woodfield,
formerly Permanent Under Secretary at the Northern Ireland Office
and currently the Staff Counsellor for MI5. His secret report to
the Home Secretary said the officers involved should be neither
criticised nor disciplined.
The list was apparently based on out-of-date files and scant
suspicions. A spokesperson for Amnesty International said: `An
inquiry which simply exonerates the perpetrators of the
violations does nothing to stop abuses of human rights happening
again'.
Independent, 16.12.91.
Statewatch, Volume 2 no 1, January/February 1992