Developments in Iraq on Monday

President Bush issued a strong endorsement of embattled Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, telling him, "You are doing a superb job." Bush pledged that those who abused prisoners would be brought to justice.

Prime Minister Tony Blair told a news conference he did not know the specifics of Red Cross allegations of U.S. and British abuse of Iraqi prisoners until "the last few days."

Control over Abu Ghraib will be negotiated after Iraqis regain sovereignty June 30, the U.S. said.

A U.S. aircraft destroyed a Baghdad office of Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric.

U.S. commanders had asked Spanish forces to help hunt down or kill a religious leader, but Spain refused, saying its mission was humanitarian, the defense minister, Jose Bono said. Bono did not specify whether he was referring to al-Sadr.

U.S. Marines, escorted by Iraqis, entered the center of Fallujah for the first time since the end of the bloody siege last month.

Insurgents bombed the Faw oil pipeline in southern Iraq on Saturday, slashing daily Iraqi oil exports by about 25 percent, or 450,000 barrels per day, an official said Monday.

Gunmen fired on a vehicle in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, killing two foreign construction workers and their Iraqi driver, the city's police chief said.

Al-Taff Martyrs Brigade, a previously unknown group, warned foreigners in Basra -- especially Americans, Britons and Kuwaitis -- that they will be targeted for kidnapping and assassination.

Fifty-five percent of the 1,001 adult Britons surveyed for The Independent newspaper said British troops should be withdrawn once sovereignty is handed over to the interim Iraqi government June 30; 28 percent were opposed.

Amnesty International alleged British soldiers have shot and killed Iraqi civilians, including an 8-year-old girl, in situations where the troops were under no apparent threat.

-- The Associated Press