More photos of Iraqi prisoners being abused have turned up being passed around among US military police who served at the Abu Ghraib prison.
The Washington Post said this morning that digital pictures were discovered among about 1,000 photographs US troops took of their experience in Iraq, including many tourist-like images of soldiers riding camels and standing before mosques.
They are said to show acts of abuse and humiliation similar to those that have been seen around the world in a major scandal.
US President George W Bush went on Arabic television yesterday. He vowed to punish US troops behind the abuse but stopped short of apologising.
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is to appear before a hastily arranged congressional hearing on Friday to answer questions on the scandal.
The new photos include a soldier holding a leash tied around a naked prisoner writhing on the ground. Another shows a group of three or four naked prisoners tied together on the ground outside their cells as US troops mill around them.
Many of the prisoners are wearing white identification bands on
their wrists, the newspaper said. But the Washington Post said it could not rule out the possibility that some of the pictures were staged.
