But clearly these were. The photo at the link shows a guy in a sparkling clean shirt that just happens to have the Iraq flag on it (wink, wink). I mean who can believe these pics are for real? Were combatants running around in the heat and dirt of battle in clean western style shirts? Give me a break.
The Mirror editor, Piers Morgan, should resign. But he is far too brazen a liar to even consider doing that. He's brazened his way out of far worse scraps than this.
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
