So yesterday, two men captured by Iraq and paraded on al-Jazeera television as British soldiers raised something of a bemused stir… basically the British military reviewed the tapes and said “Ahh… terribly sorry old son, but we don’t believe those fellows are ours. I mean to say, well, one of them has dreadlocks down to his shoulders, and that’s just not cricket.”

Turns out the two guys are truck drivers contracted to the British army to deliver food aid to Iraqi prisoners of war.

POWs shown on TV were aid drivers