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60 Iraqi interpreters murdered working for UK - Telegraph

60 Iraqi interpreters murdered working for UK - Telegraph: "Up to 60 Iraqi interpreters working for British forces in southern Iraq may have been murdered by insurgent death squads - more than twice as many as had previously been feared.
Details of the horrifying death toll came from an Iraqi national in Basra, who has been working for the British as a front-line interpreter for three years."

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