THE CIA interrogated and roughed up Iraqi prisoners in a “romper room”, where a handcuffed and hooded terror suspect was kicked, slapped and punched shortly before he died at the Abu Ghraib prison, a US Navy SEAL claimed.

TOP Pentagon officials and the military command in Iraq contributed to an environment in which prisoners were abused at Abu Ghraib prison, a high-level panel investigating the detentions has concluded, a defence official said yesterday.