Iraqi parents waiting in front of the infamous Abu Gharib prison, wondering about their son inside

BAGHDAD, May 11 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Pressure continued to pile up on the  U.S. administration Tuesday, May 11, with more abuse pictures and videos of Iraqi prisoners, including women and juveniles, coming to the surface.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had told a stormy hearing of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees last week he saw more "blatantly sadistic" photos and videos of Iraqi detainees than those already published.

The new images "include an American soldier having sex with a female Iraqi detainee and American soldiers watching Iraqis have sex with juveniles," reported the Newsweek in its May 10-17 issue.

Quoting knowledgeable sources, the magazine said another photograph "shows a female prison guard gloating over the body of a dead Iraqi".

Photos of an Iraqi woman raped by  U.S. occupation soldiers in a desert area had recently made intensive circulation on websites.

The identities of the woman and the western-looking males in military outfit have not been verified.

According to the Chicago Tribune, President George Bush viewed video and more than a dozen of unreleased images depicting the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Rumsfeld's office Monday and reacted with "deep disgust and disbelief".

"Bush was shown the video and still images blown up to color prints about 8 by 10 inches in size," elaborated the paper.

Bush's spokesman, Scott McClellan, said the president's "reaction was one of deep disgust and disbelief that anyone who wears our uniform would engage in such shameful and appalling acts."

Rumsfeld's spokesman, Larry Di Rita, said the images Bush saw showed humiliation of prisoners and "inappropriate behavior of a sexual nature."

"Doing Suburb Job"

During his visit to Pentagon, Bush heaped praise on Rumsfeld saying he was "doing a superb job."

"You are a strong Secretary of Defense and our nation owes you a debt of gratitude," Bush said with Rumsfeld standing stiff and unblinking beside him.

Despite the ever-growing prisoner abuse scandal, Bush vowed he would not change his policies in  Iraq.

More Hearings

"You are doing a superb job," Bush told Rumsfeld

U.S. Major General Antonio Taguba, who authored a report detailing the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by  U.S. soldiers inside Abu Ghraib prison, was to appear Tuesday before Congress for questioning about the scandal.

Taguba's report had found numerous "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" at a U.S.-run prison complex near Baghdad and was presented to the administration in February.

U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Stephen Cambone, was among those scheduled to testify later Tuesday as the committee delved into "chain of command" issues in the prison abuse cases, according to Chicago Tribune.

Pentagon agreed to disclose as-yet unreleased photos and at least one video to the Senate Armed Services Committee, added the paper.

"Senators and the Pentagon were working late Monday to determine when and under what circumstances lawmakers would view the material. It was part of what Taguba said were numerous photos and videotapes taken by troops of sessions of abuse at the Abu Ghraib complex."

The Tribune quoted a Democratic Senate aide as saying that the committee's chairman, Sen. John Warner, and its ranking Democrat, Sen. Carl Levin, were asked to come up with a plan to allow senators to view the pictures and videos as early as Tuesday.

"Warner has said he wants declassification of as much of the material as possible so that it can be shown to the American public," he said.

The paper quoted several officials as saying any viewing by senators would be restricted to a secure room in the Capitol to protect against leaks.

However, several lawmakers expected the images and videos to eventually be made public.

"Sooner or later they're going to have to be released," Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Pat Roberts told the Tribune, predicting they would come out piecemeal if the administration does not release them on its own.

"Two cases have reached an advanced stage with decisions on prosecution pending," he added.

The Iraqi abuse scandal exploded onto the world stage on April 29 after the CBS news network published several graphic photos of Iraqi detainees tortured and sexually abused by  U.S. soldiers.

U.S. mass-circulation the Washington Post also splashed Thursday, May 6, more abhorrent photos, saying it had obtained 1,000 digital shocking pictures.

One of the photos  showed a soldier holding a leash tied around the neck of a naked Iraqi detainee grimacing and lying on the floor.