JFIT
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 JFIT  | |
|---|---|
| Parent organization | UK/Army |
| Type | military |
| British military interrogation unit set in Iraq after the 2004 invasion | |
Joint Forward Intelligence Team or Joint Forward Interrogation Team - An acronym identifying the British military interrogation unit set up at Umm Qasr, Iraq soon after the start of the Iraq war 2003 by members of F Branch of JSIO and interrogated Iraqi prisoners between 2004 and 2007. [1][2][3][4]
Former prisoners interviewed by the legal firm Public Interest Lawyers alleged that British soldiers, including at least one female soldier, were responsible for abuse that included sexual abuse, stress positions, sleep deprivation and beatings. [1]
See Also
- IHAT - Iraq Historic Allegations Team
References
- ↑ a b http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7053351.ece
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8437090.stm
- ↑ "Colonel Nicholas Mercer, the Commander Legal for British forces in Iraq in 2003. ... [He] told the court martial that on March 27, 2003, he intervened after seeing about 40 hooded Iraqi detainees being kept in a stress position in the sun next to an electric generator at the Shaibah Logistics Base. The prisoners were in the care of interrogators from the JFIT. He said the interrogators told him that he was not authorised to end the prisoners’ treatment because the unit answered directly to the Defence Intelligence Security Centre in Britain."(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article6973482.ece
- ↑ "Lieutenant Colonel Nick Mercer, one of the army's most senior legal advisors, gave evidence to the Baha Mousa inquiry. ... [He] told the inquiry that shortly after the invasion, he had visited an interrogation centre near Basra operated by the army's joint forward intelligence team ... He had warned that hooding and the use of stress positions were illegal, but was informed that it was 'in accordance with British army doctrine on tactical questioning'." (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/01/iraq-deaths-custody-military-legal
