Arab TV shows new photos of prison abuse in Iraq

Al-Arabiya said the photos "surfaced during the investigation" and did not say how it obtained them. The U.S. television network ABC had broadcast the same photos Wednesday and identified the soldiers as two specialists who are facing charges in the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal, Sabrina Harman and Charles Graner Jr. ABC, identified the dead Iraqi as Manadel al-Jamadi.

According to testimony obtained by ABC News from Spc. Jason Kenner — a soldier not accused of any wrongdoing — al-Jamadi was brought to the prison by U.S. Navy Seals in good health. Kenner said he saw extensive bruising on the man’s body when he was brought out of the showers dead. He reportedly told investigators that there was then a "battle" between CIA and military interrogators over who should dispose of the body.

The US Department of Justice has begun an investigation into the death following a referral from the CIA.

The new photographs were not as graphic as widely seen images of U.S. soldiers sexually humiliating and otherwise abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib. But the new photographs, particularly because they could be portrayed as showing Americans gloating over the death of an Arab, nonetheless were likely to spark more condemnation of the United States by Arabs already outraged by the prison abuse scandal and, more generally, by what they see as Washington’s anti-Arab policies in the Middle East.

In the first court-martial linked to the case, Spc. Jeremy C. Sivits pleaded guilty Wednesday to four counts of abuse of Iraqis and was sentenced to the maximum penalty of one year in prison, reduction in rank and a bad conduct discharge. But many Arabs questioned the fairness of the legal proceedings in Baghdad and said Sivits should have received a harsher sentence.

Earlier this month, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told members of Congress that the Iraq prison abuse scandal could worsen with the release of more images of brutality. A Senate aide said then that senators have been told videotapes are believed to exist showing rape and the corpses of what are possibly murder victims.

An international outcry about abuse at Abu Ghraib was set off when CBS aired photos from the prison on April 28. Months before that, the Red Cross had complained to the U.S. military about treatment of prisoners in Iraq and an internal military investigation also had found problems.

During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Abu Ghraib in Washington on Wednesday, committee chairman Sen. John Warner, a Virginia Republican, said the Pentagon had found a disk containing 24 photos of abuse at Abu Ghraib.

Assistant Defense Secretary Powell A. Moore told Warner in a letter to Warner that 13 of the photos appear to have been already shown on international television and that the other 11 "may not be original or true photographs."