He said enemy dead would normally have been left on the battlefield, but British soldiers were apparently given an order to identifythedead to try to find a man thought to be involved in the murder of six British soldiers in 2003.
What is clear is that on 14 May 2004, soldiers from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment fought with Iraqi insurgents at a checkpoint known to British soldiers as Danny Boy and that, after the battle, an order was issued to identifythe Iraqi dead.
Ambushed in a convoy on the Ugandan side of the Sudanese border, he hears the shots, sees thedead soldiers, but cannot identifythe enemy in the tall elephant grass.
While I do disagree with most of the Tea Party philosophy and agenda, I am not prepared to believe that the overwhelming majority of folks who identify with these political organizations would wish anyone dead.
This meant his family had to look for him with no success for days until they had to go through the gruesome process of looking at hundreds of photographs of dead people at the Baghdad morgue until they were finally able to identify him.