What is the price of torture?
Apparently it is £3 million.
Iraqis to get £3m in MoD damages
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has agreed to pay almost £3m in compensation to Iraqis who were tortured by UK troops in Basra in 2003.
A total of £2.83m will be paid out after nine Iraqi men were mistreated and another man - Baha Mousa, 26, - was beaten to death in custody. Read More...
In other news...
A little old, but the BBC learns about corruption around the whole Iraq Fiasco, and how there is a Gag order in the US of A over the whole issue. Apple announced the iPhone 3g. At an almost reasonable price. On a standard contract, the £100 price-point is much better than before, but not as good as free - the price that higher specced phones are available for.