This chronicles the battle of Danny Boy where.two troops of British soldiers fought off several dozen Shia insurgents in a battle that finished hand to hand fighting. Several military awards were handed out but several years later a public inquiry was set up in Britain to look in to claims of war crimes submitted by human rights lawyer Phil Shiner
My husband is a soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan so I have followed these conflicts most of my adult life and wondered how the BBC might portray this farce of an inquiry which involved.£25 million of British taxpayers money.
Typically and predictably it portrays poor Phil Shiner as being the real victim of the Iraq conflict. What this "based on a true story" fictional account doesn't do is tell the truth. The truth was Shiner paid people to hunt down "Victims of British war crimes"while the claims became more and more outlandish so much so that they could and should have been dismissed out of hand but for some ridiculous reason the British government went along.with calling for this expensive inquiry where it became established that claims of murder were outright lies.and that it was Shiner's law firm that echoed these lies .
Watching Danny Boy you'd think Shiner was a hapless victim rather than the major antagonist and his fate where his law firm was closed down and he was struck off for major professional misconduct is reduced to a blink and you'll miss it caption . I read somewhere that this was supposedly 2 episodes of 90 minutes and that's why the ending is rushed but more likely the BBC probably couldn't bring themselves to take the side of soldiers over a middle class professional liberal like Shiner. My TV licence is up for renewal very soon but might just save myself the money . If I do end up in court I can console myself that Phil Shiner won't be defending me.
My husband is a soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan so I have followed these conflicts most of my adult life and wondered how the BBC might portray this farce of an inquiry which involved.£25 million of British taxpayers money.
Typically and predictably it portrays poor Phil Shiner as being the real victim of the Iraq conflict. What this "based on a true story" fictional account doesn't do is tell the truth. The truth was Shiner paid people to hunt down "Victims of British war crimes"while the claims became more and more outlandish so much so that they could and should have been dismissed out of hand but for some ridiculous reason the British government went along.with calling for this expensive inquiry where it became established that claims of murder were outright lies.and that it was Shiner's law firm that echoed these lies .
Watching Danny Boy you'd think Shiner was a hapless victim rather than the major antagonist and his fate where his law firm was closed down and he was struck off for major professional misconduct is reduced to a blink and you'll miss it caption . I read somewhere that this was supposedly 2 episodes of 90 minutes and that's why the ending is rushed but more likely the BBC probably couldn't bring themselves to take the side of soldiers over a middle class professional liberal like Shiner. My TV licence is up for renewal very soon but might just save myself the money . If I do end up in court I can console myself that Phil Shiner won't be defending me.