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Guardian – Court martial told of soldiers’ ‘appalling’ abuse: Three British soldiers carried out “shocking and appalling” physical and sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners that was photographed by servicemen, a court martial heard today. Twenty-two photographs were released by a British military court in Germany where the court martial of the three accused Royal Regiment of Fusiliers soldiers opened today. Among the disturbing images was a picture of two naked Iraqi men simulating anal sex with their thumbs raised up to the cameras. There was also a close-up picture of two Iraqis simulating oral sex.
Is it just me, or do these new pictures look disturbing familiar in theme and content?
Dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear… how could this have happened?
UPDATE – Not connected to the above in any way, shape or form. By the way, none of this is real because the images the Mirror published were fake.
By Guy Gooberman January 19, 2005 - 6:17 pm
There is something strangely postmodern about those pics, it’s like the Brit soldiers are quoting the US ones in some ironic way. Or like they saw all the ‘doing a lynndie’ stuff on badgas.co.uk and got carried away.