World News 25-02-2005 who: Corporal Daniel Kenyon what: Found guilty of abusing Iraqi civilians where: Osnabrück, Germany when: Thursday snippet: Corporal Kenyon and Lance Corporal Mark Cooley from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers were awaiting sentence at time of publication of Friday afternoon after pleading not guilty to charges of mistreated alleged looters at Camp Bread Basket, an aid depot near Basra, shortly after the end of the war, says The Independent. Fellow soldier Gary Bartlam was earlier sentenced to 18 months and Darren Larkin was also awaiting sentence on Friday. Both had pleaded guilty. A report in Thursday`s Times revealed that 18 more British troops are due to be charged with similar offences. In other Iraq news, an article by Washington correspondent Rupert Cornwell in Thursday`s Independent says William "Bucky" Bush is profiting handsomely from the war, sitting as he does on the board of Engineered Support Systems Incorporated (ESSI), a major supplier to the Pentagon and supplier of equipment to the US military in Iraq; Wednesday`s Guardian revealed that attorney general Lord Goldsmith "warned Tony Blair in a document on March 7 2003 that the use of force against Iraq could be illegal"; the BBC says Daawa Party chief Ibrahim Jaafari is the front-runner for the job of Iraqi prime minister; and finally, on Thursday ten people were killed in Saddam Hussein`s home town Tikrit when a suicide bomber attacked a police station. [... more]

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