A part-time British soldier faces a court martial next week in connection with fake pictures published in the Daily Mirror newspaper supposedly showing UK troops abusing Iraqi prisoners, the Ministry of Defence said. They were published just days after similar images appeared in the United States showing U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib jail, photos which inflamed the Arab world. The soldier will appear at a military court hearing on Monday in Catterick, northeast England. Defence sources identified him as Private Stuart Mackenzie, from the Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers Territorial Army, a part-time unit attached to the Queen's Lancashire Regiment. Piers Morgan, the Daily Mirror editor, was dismissed in May over the pictures after a government investigation found they were faked. The paper apologised to its readers and said it had been the victim of a "calculated and malicious hoax."
| Pity CBS doesn't have the same morals. |
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