Interesting though this point may be, at some point someone, and it might as well be me, is going to say, rules, shmules, we had the APCs and we used them. As I said in an earlier thread it must feel like this being American.According to your government, it does. No surprise there. I wonder, however, what the status of the occupation force's self-made rules is now that Iraq has formally reverted to sovereignty
For what it is worth so far as I know the fact that soveriegnty has passed to a new body does not undo the acts of the formerly soveriegn power unless and until the new power says it does. Any other doctrine would be quite inconvenient, as it would mean at the moment of transfer the territory is wholly without law. Not a likely result. So unless and until the new Iraqi government validly issues a new law governing the status of UK forces in Iraq we seem to be free and clear.
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