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Iraq shows dead, captured US soldiers
23/03/2003 17:34 - (SA)
Baghdad - Iraqi television showed film on Sunday of at least four bodies, said to be US soldiers, and five prisoners who said they were American.
Two of the prisoners, one of them a woman, appeared to be wounded. One was lying on the floor on a rug.
They were the first US prisoners known to have been taken by Iraq. The prisoners were questioned on air and gave their names, military identification numbers and home towns.
The bodies and prisoners were shown on Iraqi television, relayed by Al-Jazeera. Iraqi TV says the soldiers were captured in Nasiriyah, where a battle has been raging with US troops.
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfield said Iraq was in breach of the Geneva convention by showing the film.
He admitted some US soldiers may have been captured.
- Reuters
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