A coroner has called it "inexcusable" that US authorities failed to release evidence about the first UK casualties of the Iraq war.
Andrew Walker was speaking at the reopening of an inquest into the fatal helicopter crash in March 2003.
The eight servicemen died along with four US marines in Kuwait.
American authorities would not give evidence or provide relevant videotape to the court despite all efforts by the MoD, the coroner said.
The military, and probably militaries all over the world, always do this. Jessica Lynch, Pat Tillman, Haditha, Abu Ghraib... They obviously have an insanely difficult and dangerous job - but telling the truth about incidents like these is not one of them. Someone needs to tell that to people like Hinderaker.
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