Although the British contingent of the Allied Forces in Iraq were relatively successful in keeping the peace after Saddam's overturn, there were several complaints about serious abuse, some of which can be proved. After a lengthy 2006 court-martial, the most expensive ever, lead to conviction for torture by 'hooding' causing the death of civilian Ben Musa, new evidence arose that the full extent of the truth had been covered up in what amounts to a conspiracy of the military against its own legal order.
—KGF Vissers