More 'proof' of British army abuse in Iraq

[ConcernedCanuk]

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Saturday 08 May 2004, 8:51 Makka Time, 5:51 GMT

The newspaper claims it has further evidence of abuse and on Saturday its front page carried a photograph which apparently shows a soldier photographing a bound captive in the back of an armoured personnel carrier.



'All genuine'

He told the Daily Mirror: "You'd come back from Iraq and people wouldn't know what you've been through. If you had pictures you could show them. While we were out there we were told to get rid of all of them. But if they had done a proper search they would have found CDs and all sorts of things.

"There was one CD going round our room with about 500 shots on it. Some were before and after pictures of beatings"

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Heck, if the Brits got 500+ pictures, how many to the US have?

More on this from the Mirror:

THIRD BRIT SOLDIER TELLS US: I SAW PoW BEATINGS

<sub>May 7 2004

By Tom Newton Dunn, Defence Correspondent, Stephen Moyes And Aidan Mcgurran</sub>


THREE rogue soldiers got away with spearheading a sickening campaign of abuse against Iraqi PoWs, a British trooper claimed yesterday.

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Believing it his duty to expose the shameful acts he has witnessed and see the guilty punished, he told the Mirror: "It was a few bad NCOs who encouraged it - and the others just followed their lead.

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Soldier C said he believed there were only about 100 rogue troopers engaged in violence among all the thousands of British troops in Iraq.

He said: "Most are good. It's just that there are a handful of people in the wrong positions.
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OK - you do the math, if the Brits have 100 "rogues"

The US has _________ :shrug:

Right

A FECK OF ALOT MORE THAN SIX!!!!

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1. Give us PM Brown, says Labour peer

Tony Blair should quit as Prime Minister and make way for Gordon Brown, a Labour peer has said.

Sir David Puttnam, a personal friend of Mr Blair, said the Premier was now synonymous with the "bad news" flowing out of Iraq.
His call comes just days after former Labour Chancellor Lord Healey also urged Mr Blair to step aside in favour of Mr Brown.
Sir David said months of negative headlines about Iraq would damage Labour's electoral prospects and Mr Blair should resign before this summer's Commons recess.


Sir David said Mr Blair would come under enormous pressure from increasingly insecure Labour backbenchers who were beginning to realise the situation in Iraq was overshadowing the Government's many achievements.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,1271,-4067478,00.html?=ticker