I think you'll find that the photos were staged by some soldiers of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment themselves to make an easy buck from the Mirror. The truck, according to the BBC news was identified in the barracks of the regiment and may be shown to the media soon.
I was dubious about them too when I saw them first and I'm no expert. Any so called journalist or photographer worth his pay should have spotted it immediately.
The Mirror is a rag and has been viciously against the war from the start. It has spewed nasty inaccurate left wing propaganda for the last year or so. The Daily Mirror is media bias at it's worst and is enough to turn me into a right winger
Finally it's going to get it's come uppance. The editor won't survive this scandal, hopefully.
I expect he'll take the squaddies who staged the thing down with him too. Their career in the British army is definitely over. Plus, they've endangered their colleagues in Iraq. The irony is that there was probably some mistreatment of prisoners by the British in Iraq but all of that has been lost in the fuss over the faked photos. Morons!
On a lighter note it is surprisingly easy to fool newspapers, particularly tabloids. A friend of mine told a tabloid he had given golf lessons to Fidel Castro while on a visit to Cuba. The paper even paid him for the story and took pictures of my friend heavily disguised:lol
. There's one born every minute:aok
