US soldier Lynndie England today surrendered her right to challenge the seven charges she faces as a result of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, moving her one step closer to a new military trial.

A MILITARY jury convicted US army reservist Sabrina Harman early yesterday on all but one of the seven charges she faced for her role at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.

Defence lawyers appealed for leniency for Private Lynndie England at a hearing to determine her punishment in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, saying the reservist was oxygen-deprived at birth, speech-impaired and had trouble learning to read.

The top US commander in Iraq authorised prisoner interrogation tactics including the use of dogs, stress positions and isolation, according to a memo.

A US army reservist charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners is expexted to plead guilty at a Baghdad court martial today to four counts arising from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.

A SOLDIER already convicted in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal testified yesterday that fellow Army reservist Private Lynndie England was a willing participant in creating the “human pyramid” of naked Iraqi detainees shown in infamous photographs from Iraq.

A soldier already convicted in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal testified today that Private Lynndie England was a willing participant in creating the “human pyramid” of naked Iraqi detainees shown in infamous photographs.

A US military policewoman accused in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal had the charges against her reduced yesterday as a set of pre-trial hearings wrapped up at an American base in Germany.

With the installation of an interim government in Baghdad, President George Bush is banking on an untested group of Iraqi officials to achieve results that the US-led occupation could not deliver: security, stability and economic progress.

Two US marines have been jailed for giving electric shocks to an Iraqi prisoner they were guarding at a detention centre near of Baghdad in early April, months after the Abu Ghraib prison abuse occurred.

NO TELEVISION cameras or tape recorders will be allowed in the courtroom at next week’s court-martial of a US soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, a senior US officer said yesterday.

No television cameras or tape recorders will be allowed in the courtroom at next week’s court-martial of a US soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, a senior US officer said today.