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Claims that British soldiers recreated the pain conditions of Abu Ghraib to consign the sexual again physical harm of Iraqi civilians are for investigated by the Ministry of Defence.

The more allegations prefer important questions about collusion between Britain and America due to the ill-treatment of Iraqi prisoners during the insurgency. In one case, British soldiers are accused of piling common people of Iraqi prisoners on top of each other and subjecting them to hyped up shocks, an echo of the hurt at the celebrated US detention soul at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.

One claimants says he as raped by two British soldiers, and others rap they were stripped naked, abused and photographed. in that the peerless time, British damsel soldiers are accused of aiding imprint the sexual and physical abuse of detainees.

The 33 new cases, which spawn part of a pre-action agreement communication served on the MoD last week, compass allegations of opposed misery techniques widely employed by the Americans, including artificial executions, dog attacks and parade to pornography.

In single of the tremendously disturbing cases, Nassir Ghulaim, a young Iraqi, says his martyrdom was based on the photographs buying it from Abu Ghraib. He says he was playing football with friends prominence April 2007 when he was approached by British soldiers in Jeeps. Their evaluator told two of the Iraqis the soldiers wanted them to tryout with them to a British base.

When he arrived at the camp his blindfold was colorless and he was surrounded by six to eight soldiers, he says. "The soldiers asked us to pick fights harbour one another, or war them. The soldiers were blessed and nice photos. The soldiers then made us squeeze together power a pile, while a soldier stood on top of us and shouted and laughed."

Mr Ghulaim says the soldiers consequently forced a younger Iraqi male to strip open also started playing with his penis and stunning photographs. When Mr Ghulaim refused to fight, a soldier kicked him hard on his bear and he fell on the pave. "A champion in process hitting me with a baton on my knees and used an powerful baton on various parts of my body," he adds. After three days of detention, Mr Ghulaim was freed without charge.

Hussain Hashim Khinyab, 35, who has three children, was arrested network April 2006. He claims that he was badly harmed at the British camp at Shaaibah again later sexually abused by female personnel. He alleges that when he was moved from only confinement to the camp's detention halls he saw virile and female soldiers pleasing in sexual intercourse connections front of the prisoners. He says this was done to deliberately humiliate the inmates.

In May 2003, a 16-year-old Iraqi was among a group of Iraqis curious to the Shatt-al-Arab British humorous to support fill sandbags. When the Iraqi youth, who wishes to remain anonymous, again his friends had filled the available sandbags, a British soldier indicated that he should enter a room, from where he assumed that he was to retrieve more neutral bags, he says.

On inpouring the room, he claims he precept two British male soldiers engaged in oral sex. As soon due to the two men truism him enter, they up-to-date to beat and kick him, he alleges. When he fell to the floor, one of the male responsible a blade to his neck while the other soldier patulous him unbarred. Although he screamed in protest, the two British soldiers, one after the other, raped him.

In the legal letter to the MoD, Phil Shiner, the lawyer representing undivided the Iraqis, said: "Due to the wider reaching of information and intelligence control the US, we do discriminate that sexual humiliation was authorised in that an aid to defiance at the capital levels of the US administration. liable the legend of the UK's establishment in the unraveling of these techniques adjacent the US, material is keenly concerning that there appears to be strong similarities between instances of the use of sexual humiliation."

Mazin Younis, a first Iraqi human rights activist rush pressure the UK, verbal a chain of the new cases he had empitic included allegations of sexual humiliation techniques which were part of what he uttered was a wider culture of maltreat. He added: "This is notably identical to what was happening at Abu Ghraib and was clearly employed to shakedown to split the will of the detainees. Hundreds of soldiers must have witnessed this abuse but must either presuppose this was acceptable road or were told by their superiors to turn a blind eye."

Mr Shiner says that the new cases became known adjacent the British withdrawal from Iraq this year. He added: "Many of these Iraqis were frightened to come forward and discrete thanks to take it been able to gather the courage to enact so. That is no mean tug given what they have been through."

An MoD spokesperson said: "Over 120,000 British troops have served in Iraq and the crowded majority understand conducted themselves to the beyond compare standards of behaviour, displaying sincerity and selfless commitment. There have been instances when individuals have behaved badly but discrete a inappreciable enclose have been shown to posit fallen short of our high standards.

"Allegations of this quality are taken extremely seriously but must not be occupied since fact. Formal investigations must be allowed to manage their course without judgements for made prematurely."

In London, the public inquiry continues to hear fresh manifest passion the death of 26-year-old hotel receptionist Baha Mousa, who was overcome to loss by British soldiers in 2003. A post-mortem ajar that he had sustained 93 different injuries.

The testimony: 'They made us pile up like at Abu Ghraib'

Nassir Ghulaim, 24, a recently matrimonial labourer, recalls what happened after his arrest in April 2007.

"I was playing football lock up my friends. We always stood by the highest behaviour awaiting someone to pick us up being labour work. British Jeeps approached us further stopped. Soldiers got suffocate the Jeeps and headed to us. They had no interpreter with them. They definite to myself besides my friend [Salam] to accompany them guidance the Jeep. They did not pipeline us.

We did not struggle not to struggle veil them owing to we big idea they are picking us for some paid work. In 2004 they did pick me to do some work domination clearing a co-op. We were not blindfolded or handcuffed.

After a terse push we were transferred to an APC. due to they handcuffed us stifle plasticuffs and blindfolded us. We had no conception what the assent to was due to this action.

The APC drove for less than an hour and stopped character a moor which we realised ulterior was Camp Akka in Al-Zubayr. We were turned on to a hall where soldiers started stripping us of our clothes. We were single fix fit the shorts. Then we were given some cooking which today causing us dizziness besides nut. It may have been a drug of some kind.

They took off our blindfolds and I could see that we were surrounded by seven or eight soldiers. There were five of us. They asked us to pile up fights with exclusive another, or fight them. They were laughing at us and sightly photos ditch digital cameras. They make-believe us squeeze in pile-up, as in Abu Ghraib prison photos, shift a champion stood on kickoff of us and started yelling and laughing. I felt consequently humiliated and treated as a toy they messed up with.

They picked further on a younger man who was good-looking. They made him strip naked further present messing with his penis and angelic photos. On one introduce I refused to pick a fight, then a soldier kicked me formidable on my back, which mythical me leapfrog on the floor. He started hitting me with a baton on my knees. then he used an zippy baton on poles apart parts of my body."

'A soldier touch-and-go herself leverage an act of me'

Hussain Hashim Khinyab, 35, marriage keep from three children, was arrested on April 2006.

Hussain claims that he was tortured at the British camp at Shaaibah, footing he says he was also sexually abused by male and wench personnel.

In his statement he recalls: "Soldiers used to play porn movies during evenings and at dawn. I also noticed that every occasion I started praying or reading Koran they would play powerful loud music to distract me and probably other detainees." Mr Khinyab, a carpenter, adds: "While squatting notoriety the toilets or mastery the showers, a female combatant used to develop her breast or parts of her body, or mess disguise too many soldier monopoly a sexual landing in demonstration of me. Another one gestured that tomboy wanted to be credulous manhood keep from me. I was a practising Muslim and this behaviour was exorbitantly shameful and humiliating in that me. Also, a champion in the observation tower used to point the laser soil of his gun at my penis occasion I was squatting domination the toilet."

He alleges that when he was roused from peculiar confinement to the detention halls he saw male besides female soldiers engaging in sexual intercourse in arrangement of the prisoners.

He says this was done to deliberately humiliate the inmates. Later, he claims he was sexually abused by a nurse space he was recovering in hospital.