{"id":849,"date":"2004-04-30T21:55:08","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T04:55:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-04-30T21:55:08","modified_gmt":"2004-05-01T04:55:08","slug":"brits-have-torture-photos-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/30\/brits-have-torture-photos-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Brits Have Torture Photos, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

British military officials confirmed Friday that they are investigating new allegations that their soldiers abused a prisoner in Iraq.<\/p>\n

From a Sky News report:<\/a>
\n\"Daily <\/p>\n

Photographs in the Daily Mirror show an Iraqi being battered with rifle butts, threatened with execution, and urinated on by British troops.<\/p>\n

During his eight-hour ordeal, the suspected thief had his jaw broken and teeth smashed, the Mirror reported.<\/p>\n

The news follows the publication of images showing US troops humiliating and torturing Iraqi prisoners.<\/p>\n

The Mirror told how the suspect was later driven away from the Army camp, still hooded, and thrown off the back of a moving wagon.<\/p>\n

British soldiers from the Queens Lancashire Regiment handed the photos to the paper to show why Coalition forces were encountering such hostility.<\/p>\n

They stressed that the abuse by UK forces has been carried out by rogue elements.<\/p>\n

“We are not helping ourselves out there. We are never going to get them on our side. We are fighting a losing war,” one of the soldiers told the paper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British military officials confirmed Friday that they are investigating new allegations that their soldiers abused a prisoner in Iraq. From a Sky News report: Photographs in the Daily Mirror show an Iraqi being battered with rifle butts, threatened with execution, and urinated on by British troops. During his eight-hour ordeal, the suspected thief had his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}