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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