BAGHDAD, June 2: Pressure mounted on US commanders on Friday over the conduct of their troops in Iraq as further footage surfaced of alleged atrocities committed by US-led forces.

The BBC aired video of dead civilians including children that appeared to contradict the US military account of a March operation in the town of Ishaqi, north of Baghdad.

An Iraqi police account at the time said that 11 people — five women, two men and four children — were killed and then the house was blown up.

US officials had maintained that a militant, two women and a child died when US troops became involved in a firefight after a tip-off that an Al-Qaeda supporter was visiting a house in the town.

A week after the incident, US forces launched an investigation into the event.

The video, which was provided to BBC by a Sunni group opposing US forces, showed several bodies, including those of three children, one of them covered in blood.

The broadcast came with Washington already reeling from accusations that US marines killed 24 civilians in the western town of Haditha last November.

White House spokesman Tony Snow confirmed that three investigations were currently underway into alleged wrongdoing by US-led forces in Iraq, including the incidents in Haditha, Ishaq and in Hamandiya, west of Baghdad. The spokesman described the US president as ‘troubled’ by all three.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has spoken out forcefully against the event in Haditha, calling it an ‘odious crime’ and asserting on Friday that the results of the investigation would be shared with the Iraqi people.

“We are very keen that our people be involved with issues that concern them, so that they will be informed of the final findings of the inquiries since it involves the loss of innocent life,” he said.

The prime minister also called for talks ‘to redefine the obligations of coalition forces’.

A US official in Iraq said that the US government and military were open to such a discussion.

“We are very prepared to work with the Iraqi government to find ways... to work to minimise civilian casualties,” he said.

The US military announced on Thursday that all western troops in Iraq would take a training course to refresh ‘core warrior values’.

Portions of the training programme aired by US network ABC reminded ‘soldiers to destroy no more than the mission requires’.

“Military personnel are professionals, and professionals do not change their value systems simply because they are in a foreign country,” said one slide, noting that stress, fear and fatigue could make soldiers act against their value system.

COMPLAINT: The brother of a heavily pregnant woman shot dead at a US checkpoint on Wednesday vowed to file a complaint against US forces.