President George W. Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, has apologised for the US abuse of Iraqi prisoners as the White House scrambled to stem growing Arab outrage.
"We are deeply sorry for what has happened to these people, and what the families must be feeling. It's just not right. And we will get to the bottom of what happened," Rice told Al-Arabiya television in an interview on Tuesday.
Bush was to address the situation in interviews with two Arabic-language television networks on Wednesday at the White House.
Images of Iraqi prisoners stripped of their clothes and being humiliated and abused have badly damaged US prestige and credibility, especially in the Arab world.
Senior administration officials have sought to limit that damage but their promises of an investigation and punishment for those involved has failed to tamp down the controversy.
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