LONDON (Reuters) – The widow of a soldier mistakenly killed by a U.S. air strike in Iraq pleaded on Thursday for Washington to declassify a page of a U.S. report into his death.
A coroner is reaching the end of an investigation into the death of Lance Corporal Matty Hull, killed by a U.S. air strike in March 2003 after pilots mistook orange panels on British vehicles for Iraqi missile launchers.
The case has exposed apparent differences in the two allies’ procedures, and provoked indignation in Britain.
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