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Considering that hers was the first successful rescue of an American POW since World War II--and the first ever of a woman--the story not only made headlines the world over, but it also buoyed a nation wondering what had happened to the short, neat liberation of Iraq. Within a few hours of the news, the picture of the doe-eyed Lynch swaddled in an American flag while being whisked to safety on a military stretcher had already become an icon. President Bush--along with the inevitable gaggle of book and movie agents--sent best wishes...
...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...
What about American media treatment of Iraqi POWs? A Pentagon spokesman said last week that all journalists embedded with the troops had agreed not to show the faces of Iraqi POWs, which would open the prisoners to "public curiosity." But by now hundreds of Iraqi POWs have been shown onscreen and in print (including in TIME). In one worrisome story, aired March 22 on NBC Nightly News, a camera operator shone his lights in the faces of kneeling, bound Iraqi captives. "As I reach over here," said correspondent Kerry Sanders, leaning in to pick up a POW's food packet...