Colonel Mendonca

the press is reporting on Colonel Mendonca leaving the army. Many readers know my views on the treatment of prisoners by the army in occupied Iraq and that what has been going on is and was illegal. May I draw to your readers attention a piece in the Daily Mail published on March 13, 2007 with regard to why Colonel Mendonca was found not guilty at his Courts Martial.I quote from the civilian High Court judge, Mr. Justice McKinnon, overseeing the case that he found Mendonca not guilty because of evidence from Major Anthony Royce because he, Royce, had told the colonel both practices (hooding and using stress positions) had been explicitly approved by commanders when in fact both practices are forbidden in the British army.Now I don't know about other readers but if what has been reported is true, and it was in a Court and nobody would perjure themselves, then we need to know who these commanders were so that they too can be charged even though under international law nobody can plead that they were following orders so the judgement, by Justice McKinnon, was flawed under international law.