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...next morning, Perkins estimates, his unit had killed more than 1,200 attackers and taken the fight out of the rest. At first light, an Iraqi colonel walked up to an American position and surrendered. "He was a POW in the last Gulf War, so he had practice in surrendering when things are going bad," says Captain Cary Adams. The Iraqi colonel said he had only 200 of his 1,200 men left and claimed that originally there had been two other brigades in the town. One moved out during the night toward Baghdad, he said, while the other...
Specialist Shoshana Johnson, a U.S. Army cook, is one of five soldiers from the 507th Maintenance Company taken captive after their convoy was ambushed while supplying the 3rd Infantry Division in its push toward Baghdad. She is America's first female POW since the Clinton Administration lifted the "risk rule" in 1994--in effect letting women take military positions where they might come under enemy fire or be captured. All told, 19 soldiers from the 507th were wounded, killed or unaccounted for in the first week of war, including two more women listed as missing...
...argued that the conventions weren't appropriate for many detainees because they were essentially criminals--that is, terrorists without countries or uniforms who do not "carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war," as the third convention states in defining who should be classified as a POW and therefore enjoy its protections...
...POW: Taken By Surprise
...POW: Taken By Surprise