The Defense Ministry said Wednesday its probe had found no organizational cover-up of troop activity logs related to a controversial deployment to war-torn Iraq between 2004 and 2006.
The ministry initially claimed that the logs had been discarded in response to a request for their disclosure by an opposition lawmaker in February 2017. However the logs were discovered later that year, prompting the ministry to investigate.
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