CAIRO,
May 8, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The families of
ten British soldiers killed in Iraq lodged a complaint with the
International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing Prime Minister Tony Blair of
committing war crimes in the occupied Arab country, a leading British
newspaper reported on Sunday, May 8.
The
bereaved families said British troops were unlawfully ordered to use
cluster bombs near Iraqi civilian areas, killing Iraqi civilians and
destroying essential power supplies, The Independent said.
The
complaint has been given added weight after new admissions by the
British Ministry of Defense that the cluster bombs used by British
troops had an “unacceptably high failure rate”.
On
Tuesday, May 3, the families threatened to take Blair to court for
“lying” over reasons he gave for taking the country to war.
The
decision to take legal action was made after reading pre-war advice from
the government's top lawyer, Attorney General Lord Goldsmith, which
raised doubts over the invasion's
