Abuse photos 'were staged in UK'

BBC News World Edition ^ | 05/10/04 | BBC

[eddie willers]

Thanks....I've always wondered about that....."But, oh that magic feeling....no where to go."

[no more apples]

Funny...that's what I was thinking.

[auggy]

"Eh, throw in the pics of soldiers (consensually) getting it on with each other, for good measure."

Don't ask. Don't tell. Wasn't that Clinton's bill?

It's working out real well in war time.

The media will probably think their actions are fine.

[AdrianneTruett]

I thought don't ask, don't tell was for the homosexual soldiers bit? Didn't think it referred to the coeds.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Next you will be saying that they 'volunteered'.

[highlander_UW]

Look at the amusing side of it...some guys allowed themselves to be urinated upon in an attempt to create a false controversy but it failed...meaning they just got peed on for no reason.

[auggy]

" thought don't ask, don't tell was for the homosexual soldiers bit? Didn't think it referred to the coeds"

I didn't know it was coeds. I thought the way I read it, it was homos.

My mistake.

Not as bad, As I thought.

[Tommyjo]

More than likely the guy is holding a water bottle.

[highlander_UW]

More than likely the guy is holding a water bottle.

That'd be disappointing. I'd rather think someone agreed to get peed on for allah.

[Tommyjo]

Unfortunately it is very likely that 'Soldier A' and 'Soldier B' either in collaboration with the newspaper, or acting on their own staged the scenes in the back of the truck. It was those soldiers who provided the images to the newspaper. Images would earn the soldiers more money. The truth will eventually come out in the end. The truck in question, or the alleged truck, is now in the hands of the investigators. The identities are still not known of 'Soldier A' and 'Soldier B', but the pressure is now on the newspaper to come forward and name names.

[Tommyjo]

The following is the type of vehicle at the source of the faked images:

This is a model of the vehicle that shows the side gates.

On the following images you can see the side gates. The UK MOD has stated that no vehicle of this type was deployed in Iraq when the images were alleged to have been taken. The UK has stated that the truck deployed would have been a Leyland/DAF - Similar in weight and size, but don't have those very distinctive side gate design. Those side gates can be seen in the following images

[Tommyjo]

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=513332&section=news


Soldier arrested over Mirror hoax photos
Tue 18 May, 2004 21:27

LONDON (Reuters) - At least one soldier has been arrested over fake pictures showing alleged mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by British troops, the defence ministry says.

The photos were published in the Daily Mirror just days after similar ones were published in the United States showing U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners, shocking the world and causing widespread anger in the Arab world.

A spokeswoman would give no further details about the arrest by the ministry's Special Investigation Branch (SIB).

"The SIB, as part of the ongoing investigation, arrested somebody to be questioned under caution," she said. "At least one person has been arrested. It is a soldier."

Four other British soldiers have been arrested and released without charge by military police probing some of the alleged cases of abuse by British troops.

The Mirror, which sacked its flamboyant editor Piers Morgan on Friday, issued a front page apology for the photos.

The paper was a harsh critic of Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to go to war. Blair's personal ratings have sunk since the U.S-led invasion 15 months ago.