MERGED - Prisoner Abuse

[Defiant]

Originally Posted by Xaccers

Come off it, any tom dick or harry in the highstreet could see that there was something not quite right with them and they definitely needed serious investigation before parting with money let alone publishing them!

Idiot doesn't come close

Correct I think I was the first on here to make a remark about them on the day they came out on this thread. I stated then there was something wrong with them. The Mirror however well nuff said there

[TigaSefi]

I would use stronger words but unfortunately it'll all get STARRED out

[Defiant]

I think the mirror should hand out a out some moneys in good will to the soldiers families that lost the sons/daughters to at least try and make up for this. Not that they can

[TheBlueRaja]

I think they should just can the paper and **** off.

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by Defiant

I think the mirror should hand out a out some moneys in good will to the soldiers families that lost the sons/daughters to at least try and make up for this. Not that they can

sorry , they can never apologise enough for this , disgusting , gutter press is not a strong enough term

For a newspaper trying to claim the moral high ground on the war in iraq i think that this is a stupid thing to do and will smear the name of the mirror for months

[Lew]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...1.stm]BBC NewsDaily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has been sacked after the newspaper conceded photos of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi were fake.

In a statement the Mirror said it had fallen victim to a "calculated and malicious hoax" and that it would be "inappropriate" for Morgan to continue.

The Queen's Lancashire Regiment (QLR) said the Mirror had endangered British troops by running the pictures.

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At a news conference in Preston on Friday afternoon, the regiment demonstrated to reporters aspects of uniform and equipment which it said proved the photographs were fake.

The regiment's Brigadier Geoff Sheldon said the vehicle featured in the photographs had been located in a Territorial Army base in Lancashire and had never been in Iraq.

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The photos published in the Mirror on 1 May appeared to show British troops torturing an Iraqi detainee.

In one picture a soldier is seen urinating on a hooded man while in another the hooded man is being hit with a rifle in the groin.

Colonel Black, a former regiment commander of the QLR, said the pictures put lives in danger and acted as a "recruiting poster" for al-Qaeda.

[Defiant]

And now for the creeping http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews...name_page.html

I'd never buy that paper again

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by Defiant

And now for the creeping http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews...name_page.html

I'd never buy that paper again

You mean you've bought it before? Why on earth would anyone want to even before the Iraq war started? :pp

What interests me the most is them saying they will co-operate fully with any investigation, so does that mean giving the names of who gave the photos?
And I don't know about you guys, but I seriously don't buy this "we're victims of a hoax" line either. There's no way they could have published those photos without some doubt of their genuiness.

So Morgan finally took a liberty too far. And they didn't even get him to resign. Sacked, just like that.

And so they should. All you have to do is compare and contrast the American abuse photos with the ones published by the Mirror to see which were real, amateur photos of genuine abuse and which were carefully set up and posed with nice clean props.

And, finally, I am so, so glad that the Mirror insisted that any other news organisation showing the photos had to use copies with the Mirror logo in the corner. Just so we never forget which arrogant idiots are responsible for the mortal danger our army is now in.

[kronas]

Originally Posted by towny

ust so we never forget which arrogant idiots are responsible for the mortal danger our army is now in.

speaking of danger........

breaking news:

British troops have fought off three ambushes in southern Iraq, leaving 16 insurgents dead, the UK military says.
Two soldiers were hurt but their wounds were not described as life threatening.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3716491.stm

I have never bought the mirror and never will.

[kronas]

before i post this i would like to say that i did post that we should be cautious about any allegations.....ofcourse everyone said the unthinkable could not happen....



4 british soldiers are to go up against court martial for actual civilian detention abuses in Iraq, one 18 year old solider was caught developing camera photos at a shop where staff alerted authorties of what they found.

a further 7 cases of abuse are under investigation looking likely for action to be brought against people, another 74 cases are also under review.

source:ITV.com

http://www.itv.com/news/1298990.html

further link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3806349.stm

[Xaccers]

If found guilty, they should be punished appropriately

[Bifta]

One of them at least should be slapped just for being monumentally stupid enough to get the photo's developed in a shop....plank.