A member of military intelligence pleads guilty to abuse: The first American military intelligence specialist to stand trial in connection with the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison pleaded guilty here on Saturday to abusing prisoners. He was sentenced to eight months in jail. The soldier, Specialist Armin J. Cruz, 24, an Army intelligence analyst, was also demoted to private and expelled from the military with a bad-conduct discharge. He became the second soldier to be sentenced in the scandal, which was first described by the Pentagon as resulting from the misconduct of military police, not intelligence personnel. Specialist Cruz, who was found guilty on two charges of maltreating and conspiring to maltreat prisoners, ordered three naked prisoners to crawl along a concrete floor, handcuffed them and stepped on at least one of them. He said he had begun taking part in the abuse after Specialist Roman Krol, an intelligence interrogator, called him to a high-security cell block where three prisoners were brought in. "When you walked in, did you know it was wrong?" the military judge, Col. James Pohl, asked in the trial, which was held in the heavily fortified American and Iraqi government headquarters. "Yes, sir," Specialist Cruz said. "There's no way to justify it." Donald Rumsfeld remains at large.