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.

Twenty-seven members of a United States military intelligence unit at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison either requested or condoned certain abuses of Iraqi prisoners there, an investigation concluded tonight.

Military prosecutors today dismissed three charges against a suspect in the abuse of prisoners at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison, significantly reducing the amount of jail time she could face if convicted