Now there's your problem. What do you do when the good guys are the bad guys? If you're the British army, apparently nothing. The Independent reveals what really happened to sergeant John Jones in Basra:
"Just weeks into his second tour of Iraq, Sgt John Jones, 31, of the 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was killed by a roadside bomb as he commanded a routine patrol in Basra. Four other soldiers were injured.
"A charismatic, compassionate man with a sharp sense of humour, Jonah, as he was known to his friends, was killed in what John Reid, who was Defence Minister at the time, described as a "barbaric act of terrorism".
"It was revealed yesterday, however, that Sgt Jones was one of several British soldiers murdered by Iraqi police. Just a week after the anniversary of his death, his parents received a report from the Army that appeared to suggest his killer or killers may have been among the same Iraqi security forces the British have been training.
"Describing the moment of Sgt Jones's death on 20 November 2005 as his patrol was heading back to the Shatt al-Arab base, it read: "It was observed at this point that there were a number of unknown Iraqi males wearing Iraqi Police Service and military uniforms and that they were observing the scene from the Port Authority area. An Iraqi Police Service car was seen to turn around and head away from the scene, back the way it had come."
"The Ministry of Defence has long claimed that Britain's exit strategy from Iraq relies on building a strong Iraqi police and army, trained by the military. Senior officers have now conceded that there is a "small rotten core" within the Basra police. Locals, however, have long claimed that the force is heavily infiltrated by insurgents and responsible for the vast majority of murders in Iraq's second city."
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