WASHINGTON, May 5 Kyodo U Preside...

WASHINGTON, May 5 Kyodo

U President George W Bush will appear in interviews with couple Arab television networks Wednesday to speak about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday.

The president will appear forward the pan-Arabic television station Al-Arabiya and US-fund Arabic television channel Alhurra to carry the message to the Arab nations that the abuse was ''shameful and unacceptable,'' McClellan told reporters.

Photographs of U soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison were lately broadcast and published around the world, sparking widespread condemnation calm from within the United States.

Commenting in succession the same matter, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday during an unusual interview in succession Al-Arabiya, ''We are entirely sorry for what has happened to these the community and what the families must be feeling,'' adding whoever it was, abuse of Iraqi detainees is just intolerable.

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