The Daily Mirror today printed a front page apology to British soldiers, declaring, “Sorry .. We Were Hoaxed.”

Two Danish Army medics have come forward to report that they witnessed Iraqi prisoners brought to a military clinic after being beaten by British troops, Denmark’s defence ministry said.

THE Daily Mirror newspaper said yesterday that Britain’s Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon’s comments about the photographs they published were obviously designed to divert attention from the bigger and more important issue of the abuse of Iraqi detainees by British troops.

The British government was tonight under pressure to reveal how long it has known about claims of British troops abusing Iraqi prisoners.

THE two soldiers who supplied the photographs to the Daily Mirror have sought to refute accusations that they were fakes.

THE lives of British troops in Iraq may have been put at risk by the publication of photographs apparently showing British soldiers torturing and abusing an Iraqi prisoner, the British government warned last night.

The top UN human rights official today urged the American and British military to bring to justice soldiers alleged to have abused prisoners in Iraq.

The troops who sparked furore over the weekend by releasing photos apparently showing UK servicemen abusing an Iraqi prisoner have stood by their account.

Activists in three of Asia’s main Muslim countries today decried US and British forces’ alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners as a “despicable” show of Western hatred toward Muslims, and demanded that the coalition leave Iraq immediately.

Outrage flashed across the Middle East as TV stations showed graphic images of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated by smiling US military police.

Shocking photographs apparently showing British troops torturing an Iraqi detainee were published tonight.

One of the first steps paving the way for British troops to leave southern Iraq could be taken within weeks, it emerged today.