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Drone_pilot
01-05-04, 21:37
Former senior officers have told BBC News Online of their shock at photos apparently showing UK soldiers tormenting an Iraqi prisoner.
The photos published in the Daily Mirror show the captive being urinated on and assaulted.

Former assistant chief of defence staff Air Marshal Sir Timothy Garden said if true the photos could broaden support for the insurgents in Iraq.

"It is the sort of action that loses you the campaign," he said.

BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3676389.stm)

HighlandSniper58
01-05-04, 21:56
I have seen it suggested that this could even bring on the disbandment of the Queens Lancashire Regiment in the pending defence cuts - not a nce thought.