article_snippet: It comes after a public inquiry spent £31million exonerating British soldiers of claims British soldiers of claims went British soldiers of claims went on a killing and torture spree following a fierce battle in southern Iraq in 2004.
article_snippet: Thorough investigation: British soldiers with an Iraqi detainee following the Battle of Danny Boy in May 2004.
article_snippet: Claims troops rounded up civilians for a killing and torture spree following the Battle of Danny Boy were dismissed .
article_snippet: The claims came after the Battle of Danny Boy Danny Boy on May 14 2004, a fierce firefight which erupted when insurgents from the Army ambushed a patrol of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
article_snippet: The claims came after the Battle of Danny Boy on May 14 2004, a fierce firefight which erupted when insurgents from the Mahdi Army ambushed a patrol of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders reinforcements, the 1st Battalion of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, were also ambushed and after three hours of fighting 28 Iraqi fighters had been killed.
article_snippet: Claims which subsequently emerged that enraged British soldiers had tortured and executed innocent local people in the aftermath of the Battle of Danny Boy were dismissed by the Al-Sweady inquiry, which was named for an alleged teenage victim.
article_snippet: Battlegroud: The Danny Boy checkpoint, near where insurgents from the Mahdi Army ambushed a patrol of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, then Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders reinforcements, leading to a fierce firefight .