US troops missing, perhaps POWs
23/03/2003 16:46  - (SA)  

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Washington - The United States believes "some" US troops have gone missing in Iraq and could be held as prisoners of war by the Iraqi military, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sunday.

"We believe there are some American soldiers missing," he said.

Asked whether they were being held as prisoners of war, Rumsfeld replied: "They could be."

Appearing on NBC television's "Meet the Press" programme, the secretary reminded Iraq, which has said it will shortly air footage of US POWs, that it had international obligations to respect the rights of prisoners of war.

"Under the Geneva Convention, it's illegal to do things with prisoners of war that are humiliating to those individuals," Rumsfeld said.

"The United States of course avoids showing prisoners of war, we have thousand of Iraqi prisoners that are in POW camps ... but we avoid showing photographs of them."

- AFX

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