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Robert Mendick

Robert Mendick

Apr 23, 2026

19:41
What were they accused of, and what happened to that accusation?
19:45
In 2004, there's the Battle of Danny Boy, and this is where members of the Mahdi Army, who are Iranian-backed militiamen in Southern Iraq, attacked a British checkpoint known as Danny Boy in an ambush.
19:59
British troops then piled in to support them.
20:02
Firefight that lasted three hours, and at the end of which 20 to 28 Iraqis were killed on the battlefield.
20:11
Now, 20 bodies were brought back to the British camp to identify who was involved in this firefight.
20:18
But at the heart of it then becomes a series of rolling complaints that actually, no, the British had committed terrible atrocities on the battlefield.
20:25
Either they'd taken captives off the battlefield and executed them back at the British base, or else killed them and executed them on the field of battle after they'd been captured.
23:32
How does Lord Herma, now the Attorney General, fit into this story, Robert?
21:00
But also he is a collector of people, isn't he?
21:03
No, no.
21:03
I mean, that's entirely his modus operandi.
21:05
I mean, it's all about collecting people and it's all about collecting people from different spheres.
21:09
So there's no point in him only collecting people from the financial sphere.
21:13
He can take whoever it is from J.P. Morgan, which he does.
21:17
That's his private bank.

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36:11
Or they're victims.

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