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Iraqis cleared over UK troop deaths
Two Iraqi men accused of participating in the mob killing of six British troops in Basra in 2003 have been acquitted by an Iraqi court.
According to the court ruling on Sunday, the evidence against the two men was not enough to prosecute them.
Baleagh Hamdi Hikmat, the chief justice, dropped the charges after no eyewitnesses were presented in Baghdad's central criminal court. All of the nine people, mostly Iraqi police officers, who were questioned by the three-judge panel said that they did not witness the killings of the Royal Military Police officers.
However one of those questioned said he saw one defendant taking the weapon of one of the dead soldiers.