US soldier Lynndie England, whose poses in photos of detainee abuse at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison made her the face of the scandal, was convicted last night by a military jury on six out of seven counts.

US soldier Lynndie England, whose poses in photos of detainee abuse at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison made her the face of the scandal, was convicted tonight by a military jury on six out of seven counts.

A bomb exploded today beneath an oil pipeline that supplies Baghdad’s Dora oil refinery with crude from stores south of the capital, police said.

A suicide car bomber killed seven people at a checkpoint at Baghdad’s Green Zone early today, the second attack in two days at the district that houses Iraq’s interim government and foreign embassies, officials said.

THE lawyer for Lynndie England, the US soldier pictured in humiliating photos of Iraqi detainees, asked a judge yesterday if he could call as a witness in her hearing the top US commander in Iraq, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez.

The United Nations children’s agency said today it was “profoundly disturbed” by reports that children may have been abused in prisons in Iraq.

More than 2,000 Iraqis demonstrated in front of Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison today, chanting “democracy doesn’t mean killing innocent people” and demanding that the United States apologise for humiliating Iraqi prisoners.

American troops moved to capture Baghdad’s Saddam International Airport as the Iraqi capital came under renewed bombing. Coalition forces occupied around 75% of the sprawling site and initial reports said they met little opposition from Iraqi forces.

IN 60 seconds, Street 602 in Baghdad’s Qadissiyah quarter was blasted into a scene from a nightmare, witnesses said yesterday.

HEAVY explosions, air raid sirens and the crackle of anti-aircraft fire thundered through Baghdad last night as the Iraqi capital faced a second night of US-led attacks.