'Britain's Abu Ghraib': troops face torture evidence in courts martial

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'Britain's Abu Ghraib': troops face torture evidence in courts martial

By Tony Paterson in Berlin
10 January 2005


Photographs of British troops allegedly torturing Iraqi prisoners and forcing them to perform sexual acts will serve as key and potentially damning evidence in the courts martial of four soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers which open in Germany today.

The four are charged with assault and indecent assault for alleged incidents at a warehouse in Iraq in 2003 which have been described as "Britain's Abu Ghraib". They face imprisonment and dismissal from the armed forces if convicted.

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The 25 pictures are reported to show one soldier standing on an Iraqi prisoner who appears to be lying in a pool of blood. Another allegedly shows a gagged Iraqi hanging from the arms of a fork-lift truck controlled by a grinning British soldier. The prisoner is cut down and shown falling heavily. Others are reported to show a soldier preparing to kick the head of an Iraqi lying on the ground. Others are alleged to show Iraqis being forced to perform sexual acts with each other and on a soldier.

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The Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, confirmed last year that 75 investigations had been launched into allegations of soldiers' mistreatment of Iraqis. Thirty-six cases involved the deaths of prisoners. They include the cases of Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist who died of injuries after being arrested by soldiers from the Queen's Lancashire Regiment and that of Abd al-Jubba Mousa, 53, a head teacher in Basra who died after he was allegedly beaten with rifle butts by Black Watch soldiers in May 2003.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=599283

[purduejake]

1. If we do this to regular inmates...

I wonder how those ghost inmates are being treated.

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2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1135507