A SOLDIER already convicted in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal testified yesterday that fellow Army reservist Private Lynndie England was a willing participant in creating the “human pyramid” of naked Iraqi detainees shown in infamous photographs from Iraq.

The Arab-American US Marine once feared beheaded in Iraq said he was thankful to be home and asked people to pray for all hostages.

A US Marine, who resurfaced in Lebanon nearly three weeks after he vanished in a reported kidnapping in Iraq, is doing well and recovering at a US military hospital in Germany, a Marine spokesman said today.

EUROPE moved to stay America’s hand over Iraq yesterday, as top officials spoke out against a rush to war on the basis of inconclusive weapons inspections.

MORE than 10,000 part-time troops have been ordered to prepare for active duty and movement overseas beginning as early as this week to support a US military build-up near Iraq, Army officials said yesterday.