Above all, we will remember his tremendous sense of humour, and fun, and his willingness to try something new."He was definitely a man of the future. L/Cpl Brackenbury was hugely popular and a real contributor to whatever he undertook. His death will be felt by all those who have been privileged to serve alongside him."The soldier was the second British serviceman to die this month in the area, which is one of the most restive in the relatively tranquil south of Iraq.Sgt Anthony Wakefield, a 24-year-old Coldstream Guard with 12 Mechanised Brigade, was killed on 2 May in another roadside bomb. He was also stationed at Camp Abu Naji.The guardsman, who was from Newcastle upon Tyne and had three children, was acting as top cover in the second of two vehicles when the roadside bomb went off.The widow of the dead serviceman, Ann Toward, 30, blamed Sgt Wakefield's death on Tony Blair, saying that the Prime Minister should not have sent troops to war in Iraq.There are 8,500 British troops currently based in Iraq. The other injured soldiers were evacuated by helicopter and are now in a stable condition.L/Cpl Brackenbury joined the Army in 2000 and was promoted to lance corporal earlier this year.The commanding officer of the King's Royal Hussars, Lt-Col Toby Bridge, described his death as a "desperate loss" and paid tribute to the young solider as a "man of the future"."L/Cpl Brackenbury lived life to the full," he said "He had a passion for racing, football and fishing. In a statement, the Ministry of Defence said that it was with "very deep regret" that it confirmed L/Cpl Brackenbury's death.He is survived by his father Stephen, his mother Janet, brother David and sister Faye.. Plans to withdraw some of them by the end of the year have been threatened by the sharp increase in violence since a new government in Baghdad was sworn in on 28 April.The death brings the toll so far for British forces to 89, including one Fijian national.

When he heard it was purportedly carried out at a US facility in Kabul by an American, he moved on to other questions, the agency reported.A military spokeswoman, Captain Beci Brenton, said the panel was charged with determining whether the men were enemy combatants - not with investigating abuse allegations, but it was obliged to report the allegations.. The British soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on Sunday has been named as L/Cpl Alan Brackenbury. Four other soldiers were injured.His father, Stephen Brackenbury, said he was "immensely proud" that his son had been a solider. "Alan loved being in the Army - it was all he had ever wanted to do. He was immensely proud to be a soldier and we were immensely proud that he was a soldier."It is some comfort to us, as we grieve for Alan, that he died doing what he loved so much," he said.L/Cpl Brackenbury of the King's Royal Hussars, who was serving with A Squadron, part of the 1 Staffords battlegroup, died when his Land Rover, the first of a convoy of three in the patrol, struck the bomb.He was declared dead on arrival at the medical facility in the nearby British camp. "I was in a lot of pain, so I said I had [military] training.

At that point, with all my suffering, if he had asked me if I was Osama bin Laden, I would have said yes," he said.A 24-year-old said a US interrogator "threatened me with a gun to my mouth, to try to make me say something" The tribunal president asked him about the alleged torture. It was not clear whether allegations of mistreatment shown in transcripts of tribunals had been either logged or investigated, the news agency said.In some cases, the tribunal papers showed detainees making an allegation with no evidence of thorough questioning thereafter. One detainee, whose name and nationality were blacked out, along with many of names in the transcripts, said his medical problems from alleged abuse have not been taken seriously. "Americans hit me and beat me up so badly I believe I'm sexually dysfunctional," he said."I can't control my urination, and sometimes I put toilet paper down there so I won't wet my pants I point to where the pain is ... I think they take it as a joke and they laugh." The tribunal president promised to take up the man's medical complaint, but in five pages of questioning, never brought up the alleged abuse, the agency reported.Another prisoner said he was abused and forced into making a confession.