The only officer charged with crimes in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal appeared in court today to face eight military charges including cruelty and maltreatment of detainees.

Two British men released from the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay say interrogators forced prisoners to strip, chained them to a floor for hours and used deafening music and dogs to extract confessions.

THE US military has tortured terrorist suspects held without charge at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, an Australian lawyer representing some of the suspects claimed yesterday.