Lynndie England will plead guilty to abusing Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison, her lawyer said today, about a year after photos of her sexually humiliating inmates made her the face of a scandal that damaged the credibility of the United States military.

A former Abu Ghraib guard today pleaded guilty to three charges in the Iraqi prison abuse scandal – the day before his trial as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.

SENIOR military officers were aware of widespread abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers, and lower-ranking troops should not be made scapegoats, the lawyer for an accused female soldier said yesterday.

THE US-led coalition in Iraq was reeling after US troops were accused of killing 40 people in a helicopter strike on a wedding party and new pictures were released showing grinning soldiers standing over dead Iraqi prisoners.

Army Specialist Jeremy Sivits, who took photos of abuse at the Abu Ghraib detention centre in Iraq, described soldiers laughing and joking as they beat, stripped and sexually humiliated detainees, according to newspaper reports.

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A 24-YEAR-OLD US military policeman will be the first soldier to face a court martial in connection with the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

The commander of the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay has been sent to Iraq to oversee the treatment of 8,000 detainees as part of an investigation into torture at a US army-run prison outside Baghdad,