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Iraq

Volume 447: debated on Monday 19 June 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he was first informed that ‘wetting’ was official policy for dealing with looters in Basra; who authorised this policy; and if he will make a statement. (77184)

The practice of ‘wetting’ is not, and has never been, official policy for dealing with looters in Basra.