UK troops systematically abusing Iraqis

Flach was head of the Danish contingent of 500 soldiers deployed in southern Iraq, serving under British command around Basra, until he was replaced last week over ill-treatment of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of Danish troops.

"The British treat their prisoners in a manner which does not, as we think in Denmark, conform with the Geneva Conventions," Flach told the independent Information daily.

He added that he remained concerned that the Danish forces were obliged to hand over Iraqi captives to the British forces in charge of southern Iraq.

The British methods of interrogation were "significantly more severe than what went on at Camp Eden", the Danish military base at Al-Qurna, where Iraqis were ill-treated according to a Danish interpreter and freed prisoners.