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British troops face “hundreds” of abuse cases claims lawyer

"A lawyer representing Iraqis who claim they were tortured and sexually abused by British soldiers said today that there could be hundreds of uninvestigated claims of abuse.

Some 32 cases of alleged abuse have been reported to the Ministry of Defence, including claims of rape, the use of torture techniques and physical assault.

One Iraqi claims that soldiers based the abuse they allegedly subjected him to on photographs taken from the notorious US detention centre Abu Ghraib."

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home ... r-1.932414

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Iraqi 'was beaten and sexually abused'

"Lawyer says new claims point to 'systematic abuse' of detainees by British soldiers

British soldiers forced an Iraqi detainee to wear an orange jump suit and told him that he was to be executed at Guantanamo Bay, according to new torture allegations being investigated by the Ministry of Defence.

The 23-year-old man claims he was beaten and sexually abused by female and male soldiers and then flown to a British detention centre in southern Iraq which he believed was the infamous US naval base."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 21253.html

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Iraqis say British Army used Guantánamo interrogation methods

Dozens of prisoners held at a secret British army interrogation centre in Iraq claim they suffered unlawful physical and mental abuse similar to that carried out by the US on detainees at Guantánamo Bay.

Inmates at the high-security compound within the Shaibah base say they were held in solitary confinement and forced to wear dark goggles and earmuffs when taken from their cells for questioning.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 920912.ece

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UK High Court rules more evidence of Guantanamo detainee's torture claims should be published

LONDON — More secret information relating to the alleged torture of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee should be disclosed, Britain's High Court ruled Thursday.

Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed claims the United States and Britain were complicit in his torture in Pakistan and Morocco, and his lawyers are pressing for Britain to release a seven-paragraph summary of U.S. intelligence files on his detention - a document he claims proves Britain's complicity.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadi ... f1e4-OsoyA

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Public inquiry into 'Battle of Danny Boy' murder claims

Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, will next week announce a public inquiry into allegations that British soldiers murdered 20 Iraqis at what has become known as the Battle of Danny Boy.

Mr Ainsworth will tell MPs that the independent investigation will seek to establish whether the Army committed war crimes after the gunfight in 2004.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... laims.html

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"The 23-year-old man claims he was beaten and sexually abused by female and male soldiers and then flown to a British detention centre in southern Iraq which he believed was the infamous US naval base."

Sounds like he was having a wet dream.

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"The 23-year-old man claims he was beaten and sexually abused by female and male soldiers and then flown to a British detention centre in southern Iraq which he believed was the infamous US naval base."

Sounds like he was having a wet dream.

One tends to lapse in and out of “dreams” when being tortured but you shouldn’t talk ill of people in custody. There’s probably nothing worse in life than being a prisoner of your enemy.

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Military chiefs to accuse Blair of Iraq 'sabotage'

LONDON: British military commanders are expected to tell an inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens today, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony Blair's government's attempts to mislead the public.

They were so shocked by the lack of preparation for the aftermath of the invasion that they believe members of the British and US governments at the time could be prosecuted for war crimes by breaching the duty outlined in the Geneva Conventions to safeguard civilians in a conflict.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/military-ch ... -iy6d.html

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Tony Blair still has questions to answer on Iraq

Those who supported the removal of Saddam Hussein as a dangerous tyrant armed with weapons of mass destruction who posed a threat to the stability of the Gulf long ago had to come to terms with the failure to discover his WMD. It is also impossible to make any positive case for the post-war planning that took place before the invasion: the calamity inflicted on Iraq in its aftermath is testimony to the failure of those responsible to look beyond the toppling of the Ba'athist regime.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/tele ... -Iraq.html

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Does this picture show British soldiers broke Geneva Conventions?

A photograph handed to The Independent claims to show Iraqi civilians captured in southern Iraq being mistreated by British soldiers in breach of international law and the Geneva Conventions.

The incident is to be investigated at a public inquiry to be announced tomorrow by Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth, which will also examine evidence of one of the worst atrocities ever carried out by the British Army.

It is claimed that hours after the picture, left, was taken, the four men were transferred to a UK-run detention camp where they were badly beaten and where 20 other civilians were murdered by British soldiers.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 26435.html