British army in new Iraq inquiry after boy claims sexual abuse

[EFerrari]

Source: Times Online


July 13, 2008

The Royal Military Police are investigating a new allegation against British troops in Iraq after a 14-year-old Iraqi detained in 2003 with a group of looters claimed he was sexually abused.

The teenager, named only as Hassan, has made a full statement in which he alleged he was forced to indulge in oral sex with a fellow detainee while British soldiers watched.

The allegation arises from the so-called Camp Bread Basket affair, when Iraqi looters were arrested and taken by British troops to a base south of Basra in southern Iraq. Four members of the 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers were convicted of abusive treatment of some of the detainees and were sentenced to up to two years in prison.

The abuse came to light when one of the accused soldiers took photographs of the incidents at Camp Bread Basket and handed them to a shop back in Britain to be processed. A shop assistant called the police. The photographs caused an outcry when they were published around the world.

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4325305.ece

[BlooInBloo]

1. The war against the helpless....

Fucking bastards.

[EFerrari]

2. There are photographs.

Can you believe that?

I have to wonder about all the times that didn't wind up in a photograph.

:nuke:

[BlooInBloo]

3. Yup. And I'm not lookin.

[EFerrari]

4. I don't think they're posted anywhere (yet). I wouldn't be able to look, either.

My niece is about to turn fourteen. It's just too much.

[BlooInBloo]

5. I hope the photolab tech dude is ok, too. In America he or she would probably be dead.

[Solly Mack]

6. From 2005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4283255.stm