The widow of friendly fire victim Matty Hull has appealed directly to US president George Bush for help in finding the truth about her husband's death.
Susan Hull, 30, said she met Mr Bush in November 2003 and he asked her if there was anything he could do to help with investigations into the 25-year-old Lance Corporal of Horse's death.
Matty Hull died at the hands of a US A-10 "Tank Buster" plane in southern Iraq on March 28, 2003. Speaking ahead of the expected conclusion of the inquest into his death on Friday, his widow said: "He assured me that he would do all he could to help. President Bush, this is the last day you can help us. We ask that you give the coroner just one single page."
The coroner backed up her request as he adjourned the inquest, describing the lack of help as "appalling".
The Oxford inquest into Mr Hull's death has heard that the ground controller, codenamed Manilla Hotel, was "gobsmacked" that one of two A10 planes he was controlling had attacked a convoy of British armoured vehicles instead of the target he intended.
British Forward Air Controller Stuart Matthews told Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker that Manilla Hotel had given no permission to open fire on this target. But the Hull family believe that questions he was asked about the communications and procedure during the incident have been blacked out of the US Friendly Fire Investigation Board (FFIB) Report given to the coroner.
Mrs Hull, flanked by Mr Hull's mother, Mandy, 46, his father, Richard, 50, and his sister, Lauren McCourt, 18, appealed outside of Oxford's Old Assizes where the inquest is being held, for this section of the document to be given to the coroner.
She said: "The coroner has asked twice for this document, following conflicting suggestions from the Ministry of Defence regarding what evidence was in his possession. Despite the coroner's repeated requests, he still does not have it. We have 1,110 lines of evidence from this document - but 11 are blanked out.
"To President Bush and the US government; we implore you to release the 11 lines and let the coroner have these, so that our family can feel more satisfied with the transparency of this inquest."
Last-minute efforts by the Hull family's lawyers to secure the evidence proved fruitless so Mrs Hull decided she had "nothing to lose" in making a direct appeal to the US government, frustrated by its continued lack of co-operation.
