UN officials are accusing the Bush administration of trying to undermine the work of UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in Iraq by leaking the name of a possible new Iraqi prime minister. US officials had said on Tuesday that a former nuclear scientist named Hussain Shahristani who was jailed under Saddam Hussein, was the leading contender of the post. But UN officials denied the reports. The scientist himself announced on Wednesday that he is not interested in the position. In other Iraq news, some members of the Iraqi Governing Council have rejected President Bush’s call to level the notorious Abu Ghraib because they described the destruction as a waste of resources. Meanwhile the New York Times reports the military has gleaned little intelligence from prisoners held at Abu Ghraib.