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The UK, interrogation and Iraq, 2003-8

Newbery, SL

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The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003-8) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. The article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness, for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.

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Newbery, S. (2016). The UK, interrogation and Iraq, 2003-8. Small Wars and Insurgencies, 27(4), 659-680. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2016.1189519

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 13, 2015
Online Publication Date Jun 19, 2016
Publication Date Jun 19, 2016
Deposit Date Nov 16, 2015
Publicly Available Date Oct 17, 2018
Journal Small Wars and Insurgencies
Print ISSN 0959-2318
Electronic ISSN 1743-9558
Publisher Routledge
Volume 27
Issue 4
Pages 659-680
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2016.1189519
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2016.1189519
Related Public URLs http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fswi20/current

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