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Monday, July 13, 2009

Baha Mousa inquiry: British soldiers 'made prisoners scream and dance'

Baha Mousa inquiry: British soldiers 'made prisoners scream and dance'

British soldiers made Iraqi prisoners scream in an "orchestrated choir" and forced one to dance like Michael Jackson, an inquiry into the death of Iraqi receptionist Baha Mousa has heard.



Mr Mousa, 26, died while in the custody of the former Queen's Lancashire Regiment in Basra, southern Iraq, in September 2003.

A wide-ranging public inquiry into his death and the British Army's use of so-called conditioning techniques to "soften up" prisoners for interrogation got under way on Monday.

The inquiry heard that Mr Mousa's injuries may have been inflicted "with a greater degree of deliberation" than was previously thought.


If this death was the result of softening up techniques, what must the interrogation be like?

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