British military officials confirmed Friday that they are investigating new allegations that their soldiers abused a prisoner in Iraq.
Photographs in the Daily Mirror show an Iraqi being battered with rifle butts, threatened with execution, and urinated on by British troops.
During his eight-hour ordeal, the suspected thief had his jaw broken and teeth smashed, the Mirror reported.
The news follows the publication of images showing US troops humiliating and torturing Iraqi prisoners.
The Mirror told how the suspect was later driven away from the Army camp, still hooded, and thrown off the back of a moving wagon.
British soldiers from the Queens Lancashire Regiment handed the photos to the paper to show why Coalition forces were encountering such hostility.
They stressed that the abuse by UK forces has been carried out by rogue elements.
“We are not helping ourselves out there. We are never going to get them on our side. We are fighting a losing war,” one of the soldiers told the paper.