Findings due in Iraq photo probe

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The findings of an inquiry into whether the Daily Mirror's Iraq "abuse" photos are genuine are due to be released on Thursday, the Ministry of Defence says.
Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram will tell MPs the results of the Royal Military Police investigation later.

He is also due to respond to claims he misled MPs over when he first heard of allegations UK troops had abused Iraqis.

The pictures - purporting to show UK troops abusing Iraqi detainees - have been branded "fakes" by Tony Blair.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3709289.stm

On edit: Guardian article on the same subject:

Ingram to denounce Mirror pictures as fake

Armed forces minister Adam Ingram is expected to announce today that the Daily Mirror's photographs of British troops apparently abusing Iraqi prisoners are fake.

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On the basis of visual evidence in the pictures, it is thought the government will argue they do not show members of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment on service in Iraq but were mocked up by Terrestrial Army volunteers in the north-west of England.

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The Mirror has stood staunchly by its story, saying it will continue to treat the photographs - which emerged after uncontested images of US military brutality had been published - as genuine unless there is proof to the contrary.

However, the Mirror's line has subtly changed over the past week, from certainty that the photographs were genuine to an insistence in a statement on Monday that they "accurately illustrate a serious abuse of a detainee by members of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment".

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1215708,00.html