The armed forces minister, Adam Ingram, is today expected to declare that the Daily Mirror's "world exclusive" pictures of British soldiers abusing and urinating on Iraqis were faked. But he is also expected to use his Commons appearance to apologise for misleading MPs over his own comments on the abuse of Iraqi civilians and detainees, when he declared that no reports had been received from "external agencies" on the abuse of Iraqis - a claim immediately contradicted by Red Cross and Amnesty International.Piers Morgan appears even now to be denying that the photos the Mirror published were faked. But if they cannot be established as authentic, he should resign - even if there have been abuses committed by British soldiers which the pictures loosely portray. I think Geoff Hoon should also resign. And - especially - Donald Rumsfeld must now resign:
Members of the US Congress saw new images of violence and sexual humiliation from a US-run Iraqi prison last night in a closed viewing and one likened them to a descent into "the wings of hell".If those with overall responsibility cannot, in the face of revelations of this moral gravity, see that they are ultimately answerable, then what the hell does taking responsibility mean?They said images showed inmates apparently being forced to commit sodomy, wounds possibly from dog bites, a number of dead bodies, and examples of "sadistic torture" and "sexual humiliation".