Today's news roundup from our Iraq correspondent:
The U.S. general formerly in charge of Abu Ghraib prison said that abuse of Iraqi prisoners was hidden in a cover-up that may reach all the way to the Pentagon or whitehouse.
A roadside bomb has killed a local police chief in Baghdad, and another officer today, in continued attacks from insurgent's on Iraq's undermanned police forces. Also, two US soldiers were killed in bomb in Baghdad late on Monday, and a marine died today west of Baghdad.
The killing of the marine today has brought the total of U.S. service personnel to at least 915 dead since the start of Military Operations.
The Muslim chaplin, James Yee, acused of being a spy at the Guantanamo Navy base has submitted a letter of resignation yesterday, saying that he had never received an apology for being locked up for 76 days, and that the allegations against him "irreparably injured my person and professional reputation and destroyed my prospects for a career in the United States Army."
The Iraqi Governor of Al-Anbar province has offered to resign in an effort to secure the release of his kidnapped sons' and to comply with the demands of the kidnappers.
There have been a large and growing number of attacks of Christian churches in Iraq in recent weeks, forcing many Christians to rethink their plans to stay in the country. Iraq's christian community is one of the oldest in the world.
Finally, video footage of a Turkish hostage, blindfolded and shot three times in the head, has been released on "Islamic websites". News of the execution has prompted a major Turkish truckers' organisation to announce that it would stop working for the US armed forces in Iraq.
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