The newly leaked manual for the military forces advocates intimidation of prisoners by means of plastic cuffs, blindfolds, earlobes, forced nakedness, restricting sleep and persistent incommunication.
The manual, which looks written by an active sado-masochist (in the sexual meaning of the word), outlines that prisoners should be conditioned prior to any interrogation and that this conditioning is made by means of sexual intimidation such as having the prisoner naked, searching his foreskin and forcing him to have the buttocks spread.
International law explicitly forbids any form of coercion against war prisoners, specifically that used to obtain information.
British forces in Iraq are responsible of several murders of prisoners, some by throwing them from helicopters, forced to drown in the river or merely gunned down at cold blood after a traffic incident.
Hundreds of witnesses certifying British inflicted tortures in Iraq are probably just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
Some officers complained because they believed such methods being illegal and potentially harming the reputation of the British armed forces.
