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アメリカだけでなくイギリスの兵士も拷問をやっていたとする写真を Daily Mirror土曜版が一面に載せました。
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UK troops in Iraqi torture probe
The Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation into allegations that British soldiers have been pictured torturing an Iraqi prisoner.
The photographs, obtained by the Daily Mirror newspaper, show a suspected thief being beaten and urinated on.
The UK's most senior soldier, General Sir Mike Jackson, said if guilty, the men were not fit to wear the uniform.
This follows revulsion expressed across the world by pictures of Iraqi prisoners being abused by US troops.
One of the images of abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers shows a hooded and naked prisoner standing on a box with wires attached to his genitals.
As the graphic pictures were beamed across the world, US President George W Bush vowed that those responsible would be "taken care of".
"I shared a deep disgust that those prisoners were treated the way they were treated. I didn't like it one bit," he said.
The people who are alleged to have carried out the abuse "do not reflect the nature of men and women we sent overseas", Mr Bush added.
Tony Blair's official spokesman said the way naked prisoners were tormented by troops directly contravened all the US-led coalition's policy.
Hours later, Downing Street condemned the latest pictures and a spokesman said: "We expect the highest standards of conduct from our forces in Iraq despite the difficulties they face."
Defence Minister Adam Ingram told the Mirror the behaviour was "clearly unacceptable".
He added: "We have, of course, launched an immediate investigation."
BBC defence correspondent Paul Adams said the MoD was in a "tailspin" over the news, which threatened the British mission to win Iraqi "hearts and minds".
The Mirror says the pictures were handed over by British soldiers who claimed a rogue element in the British army was responsible for abusing prisoners and civilians.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the soldiers from the Queen's Lancashire Regiment told the paper no charges were brought against the unnamed captive.
They allege during his 8-hour ordeal he was threatened with execution, his jaw broken and his teeth smashed.
'Losing war'
After being beaten and urinated on, he was driven away and dumped from the back of a moving vehicle, the soldiers claimed.
They added they did not know whether he survived.
The reason for making the photos public was, they said, to show why the US-UK coalition was encountering such fierce resistance in Iraq.
One told the paper: "We are not helping ourselves out there. We are never going to get them on our side. We are fighting a losing war."
In a press conference, Sir Michael Jackson, Chief of the General Staff, said: "If proven, not only is such appalling conduct clearly unlawful but also contravenes the British Army's high standards of conduct.
"The allegations are already under investigation.
"Again, if proven, the perpetrators are not fit to wear the Queen's uniform and they have besmirched the Army's good name and conduct."
But he said the Army should not be judged on the behaviour of a few soldiers who had let down the good work of tens of thousands of others.
Ahmed al-Sheik, editor-in-chief of Arab TV news channel, said the photographs would outrage Arabs around the world.
"These scenes are humiliating not only to the Iraqis, but to every Arab citizen around the world," he told BBC Two's Newsnight.
Liberal Democrat defence spokesman Paul Keetch called on Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon to come to the Commons to make a statement on the allegations.
And Donald Anderson, the Labour chairman of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said the pictures could hit the Army's morale.
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