MoD 'extremely sorry' over Iraqi boy drowned in canal in Basra

The Ministry of Defence has apologised for the death of an Iraqi boy who drowned after being "forced" into a canal in Basra by four British soldiers. Ahmad Jabbar Kareem, 15, died in the Shatt Al Basra canal in May 2003 after being stopped by British troops who suspected him of looting near the Basra General Hospital. The apology comes after a report by former High Court judge Sir George Newman, head of the Iraq Fatality Investigations (IFI) set up in 2013, found the teenager was "aggr