A few days ago, News of the World made public a video of British troops. There were Iraqi teenagers throwing what appears to be stones at a british base. Then it shows UK troops kicking and beating these said teenagers.

This news has since caused a great deal of disgust and uproar, as you would expect.

However, today a new video has been made public which appear to show the minutes leading up to the earlier video. This one shows the teenagers throwing granades into the base.

It would appear at this point that the soldires were acting in retaliation as they were under attack before hand.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4708866.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4709074.stm
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/news/news1.shtml


There are two possibilities for this.

1. The British were chasing them away and beating them up out of savagery and sick humour, or;
2. They were acting out of self defense and the News of the World is trying to stir up shit to try to get them in even more danger than they already are in just to sell papers.

Either way, though, this will work in the favour of Al Quaeda in rallying up support. I hope everyone involved in this is happy...

[Edited on 14/2/06 by Samsara]