IRAQ: TORTURE...IT GETS WORSE

SMH: Pentagon tries to keep lid on new images

United States officials are struggling over how best to release the next wave of photographs, and possibly video films, depicting the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad.

The Defence Department plans to provide Congress with many more pictures but is unhappy at moves to release them for public scrutiny.

That decision is expected to be one for President George Bush.

John Warner, the Republican head of the Senate armed services committee, said he and other members have been assured they will have private access to the photographs and videotapes - described as even more graphic and disturbing than the ones already made public - once Pentagon lawyers finish their review.