Rumsfeld cites ‘legal’ advice to withhold abuse photos

Donald Rumsfeld, making a surprise visit to Iraq said lawyers were advising the Pentagon not to release any more photographs of Iraqi prisoners being treated badly by US soldiers.

He dismissed as "garbage" any suggestion of a Pentagon cover-up of abuse.

After meetings in Baghdad, Mr Rumsfeld travelled to the Abu Ghraib prison where American military police sexually humiliated and abused Iraqi prisoners last autumn.