Ever since the current wave of troubles in Northern Ireland began last August, there have been recurring reports that some of the suspected subversives who were rounded up by the British army had been interrogated with exceptional brutality. But British papers gave the uncorroborated stories short shrift.
A few weeks ago, however, a group of investigative reporters who write a regular feature in the London Sunday Times known as "Insight," obtained statements written by eleven prisoners describing the interrogations and tortures they had supposedly undergone. But none of the prisoners could say where...