zakur
31st May 2003, 11:22 AM
Photos Raise Allegations of Torture (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/31/international/worldspecial/31BRIT.html?ex=1054958400&en=b3e3de9e0128134a&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE)
LONDON, May 30 — A British soldier was arrested today after he left a roll of film at a photo store that appeared to show an Iraqi prisoner being tortured, the Defense Ministry said today.
The film depicted a bound and gagged Iraqi inside a net that was suspended from a forklift, according to The Sun, which first reported the story this morning. The Sun also reported that the roll included pictures of soldiers performing sex acts near Iraqi prisoners.
Howard Rhoades, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry, said a soldier had been arrested and was being questioned by the military police in connection with the photographs, which had been left at a shop in Staffordshire in central England. He has not been identified, but The Sun reported that he belonged to the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, which fought in southern Iraq and is part of the Seventh Armored Brigade, known as the Desert Rats.
LONDON, May 30 — A British soldier was arrested today after he left a roll of film at a photo store that appeared to show an Iraqi prisoner being tortured, the Defense Ministry said today.
The film depicted a bound and gagged Iraqi inside a net that was suspended from a forklift, according to The Sun, which first reported the story this morning. The Sun also reported that the roll included pictures of soldiers performing sex acts near Iraqi prisoners.
Howard Rhoades, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry, said a soldier had been arrested and was being questioned by the military police in connection with the photographs, which had been left at a shop in Staffordshire in central England. He has not been identified, but The Sun reported that he belonged to the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, which fought in southern Iraq and is part of the Seventh Armored Brigade, known as the Desert Rats.