David Irving comments:

This kind of photograph [source: http://pulpnonfiction.blogspot.com/ ] suggests one reason why the Iraqi guerrilla resistance is now flaring up against the US occupation troops. Seems like only yesterday that the American government was muttering sanctimonious protests at the display of captured US troops on Iraqi news bulletins. I don't remember the Iraqis putting hoods over the heads of their prisoners, or manacles on their wrists. I do recall that there was a major diplomatic crisis in October 1942 which lasted for many months, when British Commandos put their captured German prisoners in manacles. It ended with a British apology, through the Swiss Protecting Power, if my memory serves me right.