First, Abu Ghraib, then Basra, now Mosul. The Guardian has the details of a third Iraq city in which detained Iraqi prisoners have filed reports of torture at the hands of U.S. servicepersons.

Two statements have been taken from Iraqis detained in Mosul and more are expected. In one, an Iraqi lawyer says he was hooded and stripped naked in a building known as the "disco".

Yasir Rubaii Saeed al-Qutaji describes how loud western music was played and cold water poured over his body; he said he was also threatened with sexual abuse. "For the next 15 hours they tried to break me down by taking me frequently inside and repeating the stripping, cold water and loud music sequence," he says. "Due to the very loud music," he adds, "they would talk to me via a loudspeaker that was placed next to my ears."

he beatings did not leave a mark on his body because his attackers wore special gloves, he says. Mr al-Qutaji says he was a founder member of the Islamic Organisation for Human Rights. He claims that other prisoners were treated even worse. "Some were burnt with fire, others [had] bandaged broken arms."

The second detainee's account is even worse. Haitham Saeed al-Mallah, an engineering graduate, recounts his own torture and then says:

Mr al-Mallah says the next day, he saw "a young man of 14 years of age bleeding from his anus and lying on the floor. "He was Kurdish and his name was Hama. I heard the soldiers talking to each other about this guy, they mentioned that the reason for this bleeding was inserting a metal object in his anus."