British troops ‘tortured and killed Iraqi civilians seized after battle’

Blares the misleading and inflammatory Times headline. It's not until parapgraph nine that you find:

"A ten-month Royal Military Police investigation involving interviews with 150 British personnel and 50 Iraqis concluded that all 20 were killed during the battle, and there was no evidence that another nine who had been detained and held at Abu Naji had been abused."

And in the last paragraph the Times notes the BBC is to air the findings of its own yearlong investigation. As I reported yesterday the BBC has already reported its findings under a similar misleading and inflammatory headline "Claim UK troops 'executed' Iraqis". Like the Times, the BBC bury their findings in the report.

"Panorama has seen no proof that prisoners died at the hands of their captors at or after the Battle of Danny Boy."

There is no doubt our enemies will be using both these misleading and inflammatory headlines against us.

We truly live in sad times when British news ogranizations use heroic British troops to create sensational headlines.