Oh they were captured and taken to Abu Ghraib while it was under Saddam's control. Also captured were some downed RAF crews and an ex-SBS Officer who was doing some survey work in the Shat-al-arab. He was accused of spying. All those taken were mistreated, threatened, tortured. They were taken as Prisoners of War and as such covered supposedly by the Geneva Convention, as were the 605 Kuwaiti Nationals abducted from Kuwait and taken to Iraq and murdered.

Now which particular example of abuse by either British or American Armed forces caused Saddam to act that way irishenglish.