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The video apparently shows British troops dragging four young protesters off a street and into an army compound after one such clash. They are then seen being viciously beaten by the soldiers. The MoD would not confirm the regiment involved, but 20 Armoured Brigade, based in Paderborn in Germany and which included the 1st Battalion the Light Infantry, was deployed in Basra at the time.
In the video, which the paper said was played at the troops' base in Europe before being handed over by a whistleblower, the cameraman is heard laughing and saying: "Oh yes! Oh yes! You're gonna get it. Yes, naughty little boys. You little fuckers, you little fuckers. Die. Ha Ha." Soldiers are shown beating the Iraqis, with one apparently kicking a young man in the genitals as he lay on the ground. A young Iraqi is apparently head-butted by a helmeted soldier and hit in the kidneys. The Iraqi cries: "No, please," as the commentator says in a mocking, childlike, voice: "No, please, don't hurt me." The video also apparently shows an Iraqi corpse being kicked, and, as the man's head is held up to the camera, a soldier sniggers: "He's been a bad motherfucker."
A military spokesman in Basra, Flight Lieutenant Chris Thomas, yesterday reacted to the release of the tape by condemning "all acts of abuse and brutality" by British troops. "We hope that the good relations that the multinational forces have worked very hard to develop won't be adversely affected by this material." He added that the allegations related "to only a tiny number of the 80,000 personnel that have served in Iraq".