Anger towards British still boiling in Iraq 13 years on

Video report by ITV News Correspondent Dan Rivers

Thirteen years on and there is still a boiling sense of anger towards the British Army in Iraq - and Tony Blair in particular.

And in the town of Muhjar al Kabir there is still raw grief at what happened there.

It is the town where six British military policemen were killed as they made a last stand against an Iraqi mob of 400.

Without back-up and proper equipment, the tragedy exemplified the poor planning that dogged the British deployment in Iraq.

The bloodshed that followed in the town was a microcosm of the wider war.

And both sides lost as liberation gave way to to insurgency.

ITV News are the first British people to come here for years - perhaps since the British Army left.

And the hatred for the British is as present as ever.

'Everyone has a hatred towards the British'. Credit: ITV News

One man told ITV News: "There's an anger that I cannot describe.

"Everyone has a hatred towards the British because of their behaviour.

"Many people were killed, many were injured, many women became widows."

The town of Muhjar al Kabir in Iraq. Credit: ITV News

What happened here is symbolic of the wider failures in Iraq.

A man, whose son died in the bloodshed, broke down in tears as he said: "I'm against the killing of British soldiers, but my son died for nothing. He didn't do anything."

The long-awaited Chilcot report into the Iraq War is to be published on Wednesday.