Abuse of Iraqi prisoners 'systematic' - Red Cross

The international Red Cross saw US military intelligence officers mistreating prisoners under interrogation at Abu Ghraib prison and heard coalition estimates that up to 90% of Iraqi detainees were arrested by mistake, according to a report by the agency disclosed in Geneva.

US President George Bush said the mistreatment “was the wrongdoing of a few,” but the report by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) backs up with detail the neutral agency’s contention that US prisoner abuse was broad and part of a system, “not individual acts”.