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tinnypriv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 04:12 PM
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PAPER CLAIMS UK TORTURE (Brit soldiers torture in Iraq)
PAPER CLAIMS UK TORTURE
Sky News, 30 April 2004



More disturbing pictures have emerged about the alleged torture of Iraqi prisoners - this time at the hands of British soldiers. The Army has launched a full investigation.


Photographs in the Daily Mirror show an Iraqi being battered with rifle butts, threatened with execution, and urinated on by British troops. During his eight-hour ordeal, the suspected thief had his jaw broken and teeth smashed, the Mirror reported.

The news follows the publication of images showing US troops humiliating and torturing Iraqi prisoners.

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The Mirror told how the suspect was later driven away from the Army camp, still hooded, and thrown off the back of a moving wagon.

He was never charged with any offence and no-one knows if he is still alive, the paper added.

British soldiers handed the photos into the Mirror to show why Coalition forces are encountering such hostility in the country.

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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13075721,00.html
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 04:14 PM
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1. We are winning the SHIT out of those hearts and minds
Edited on Fri Apr-30-04 04:24 PM by thebigidea
Go Coalition! Hurray!

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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 04:17 PM
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2. OUR MAN IN FALLUJAH


Leader of the Fallujah Protective Army Maj. Gen. Jassim Mohammed Saleh, strides passed a U.S.
Army checkpoint on the edge of Fallujah, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday, April 30, 2004. Saleh, a
veteran of Saddam's Republican Guard, will lead a 1,100 member Iraqi force which has begun
taking over Marine positions in Fallujah. (AP Photo/Abdel Kader Saadi)

On Edit: He knows how to use a set of TESTICLE CRUSHERS His prior Boss was CHEMICAL ALI
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-30-04 04:20 PM
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3. another link:
Edited on Fri Apr-30-04 04:27 PM by maddezmom
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