THE Pentagon has released a new manual defining the acceptable treatment of US military prisoners, revising an earlier edition from 1992. The new manual is titled "Human Intelligence Collector Operations" and applies to all US armed services but not the CIA, reported news agency AP. Its release comes more than two years after the scandal surrounding prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, when photographs of US soldiers degrading Iraqi detainees were made public. The photographs showed US soldiers smiling besides various prisoners who were naked, chained to leashes and covered in faeces. The manual prohibits eight of these 'interrogation...