Blair condemns 'abuse of prisoner' pictures
01/05/2004 - 16:35:08Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair today condemned photographs of British soldiers apparently abusing an Iraqi prisoner as “completely and utterly unacceptable”.
The shocking pictures, published in the Daily Mirror, appeared to show UK troops beating the hooded man, pointing a gun at his head and urinating on him.
Speaking in Dublin, Mr Blair insisted that any misconduct by British troops was “exceptional” and should not detract from the good work being done by UK personnel in the south of Iraq.
“If there has been any abuse, I believe it to be exceptional, but that doesn’t make it any the less unacceptable,” he said.
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