http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&e=16&u=/ap/20040511/ap_on_re_eu/britain_iraq_amnesty_2LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites)'s office Tuesday rejected calls for an independent investigation of allegations that British soldiers shot and killed Iraqi civilians, including an 8-year-old girl, in situations where the troops were under no apparent threat.
Blair's official spokesman said the Royal Military Police's Special Investigations Branch already was looking into the claims by Amnesty International.
The human rights group's report said the military had failed to investigate many cases in which British soldiers killed civilians in Iraq (news - web sites), and that the inquiries they did undertake were too secretive.
Kate Allen, the director of Amnesty International U.K., urged independent inquiries into each of the 37 cases the organization had raised. Of those, 18 are being investigated, she said.
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