More abuse reports from Iraq, Philippines withdraws troops

New cases of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers have been uncovered, a top US senator said, three months after US media broadca...

New cases of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers have been uncovered, a top US senator said, three months after US media broadcast photos of detainees being sexually humiliated at Abu Ghraib prison.

‘‘We’re still uncovering, as late as this morning, other incidents, other cases that will be promptly investigated by the Department of Defence,’’ Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John Warner said yesterday, after his panel was briefed by Pentagon officials in a closed-door meeting. Warner, a Virginia Republican, said there were possible violations of the Geneva Convention and Defence Department rules and regulations on prisoners. The Pentagon officials, briefing the committee, also showed the senators 24 confidential documents from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The papers are part of an ICRC report on prisoner treatment in Iraqi jails, written before the scandal broke in April, when US media released photos of abuse committed at Abu Ghraib.

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Warner has held three hearings on Abu Ghraib and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has testified before the committee.

The senator said his panel’s next public hearings will be held in September at the earliest. The committee will not hold open hearings with soldiers being investigated, to avoid jeopardising their legal rights, Warner said.

Meanwhile, 11 Filipino troops left Iraq today as part of the pullout ordered by their government to comply with the demands of militants holding a Filipino truck driver hostage, Iraqi authorities said.

Diplomats in Baghdad said a headless corpse found in the Tigris river maybe of a Bulgarian hostage killed by militants linked to Al Qaeda ally Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi. Hopes of finding a second Bulgarian alive were fading, they said. Bulgaria has refused to pull its troops out of Iraq.

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A Saudi transport company said it had pulled out of Iraq to save the life of an Egyptian truck driver taken hostage by kidnappers who demanded the firm leave the country, Al Jazeera satellite television reported on Friday.

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