Soldiers convicted in the UK's "Abu Ghraib"

Three British soldiers were imprisoned after court martials this week for their involvement in abuses occuring at "Camp Breadbasket" in 2003. The "British Abu Ghraib" occurred when British military were attemping to secure a humanitarian warehouse from looters. Those accused of assault and placing a bound man in a forklift. But the Guardian reports much more serious allegations have come forward from the camp, and were captured on film. Allegations of forced simulation of oral sex were not prosecuted. Neither were allegations of sadistic beatings, including of a man who claims to have been a worker in the camp. Lawyers of the "abused" are saying that the three in prison are guilty of the least serious crimes, and have been scapegoated.

The defendants in the court martial held in Osnabruck claimed that they had been "scapegoated" and that senior officers were mistreating Iraqis in the camp. Statements - in draft form - from Mr Shiner's clients corroborate claims that the abuse was more widespread and that women soldiers were involved. They give a different picture to what happened in May 2003 than was put before the court.

The board of seven officers and Judge Advocate Hunter were told how Iraqi looters who had been stealing from Breadbasket were rounded up and punished in an operation dubbed Ali Baba.

But one man, Ra'id Attiyah Ali, said he was not a looter and in fact worked in the camp and had an identification card to prove it. He claims he was beaten on the nose and tied to a pole for an hour and a half.

"I saw the soldiers kicking and beating Iraqis, I saw the guy who was held in a net. I saw five Iraqis in their underwear holding milk cartons on their head, I saw a soldier urinating on them. They were about eight soldiers.