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...Vietnam POW, McCain has become a talk-show regular on war issues and point man on veterans' legislation...
Much of the success of the coalition's war against Iraq stems from excellent intelligence from spy satellites and other high-tech gear. But much is also the result of good, old-fashioned, low-tech intelligence work: interrogating EPWs, enemy prisoners of war (POW is now a term reserved for allied troops who are captured by the Iraqis...
...action). An AC-130 gunship with a crew of 14 was shot down over Kuwait, and a male and a female soldier on a "transport mission" near Khafji were missing. The woman, Army Specialist Melissa Rathbun-Nealy, might be the first female American soldier ever to become a POW (though some nurses have been captured in previous wars...
...Baghdad has denied the International Committee of the Red Cross access to the allied POWs. By contrast, the Red Cross was permitted last week to visit seven Iraqi POWs hospitalized in Saudi Arabia and 35 Iraqis in Britain whose status changed from visiting student to POW when it was discovered that they were members of the Iraqi armed forces. Baghdad's refusal to permit inspection of the POWs served only to arouse fears about what is being done to the men. Last week's reports out of Baghdad that a downed allied pilot had been stoned by Iraqi citizens, despite...
These dark fantasies may not be imagination run wild. During the eight-year Iran-Iraq conflict, Baghdad repeatedly demonstrated its blatant disregard for the 143 articles of the third Geneva Convention that address the treatment of POWs. A 1985 U.N. report issued after visits to eight prison camps in each country concluded, "Physical violence appeared to be particularly common in POW camps in Iraq." Among the atrocities cited by prisoners: assaults on genital organs, beatings with truncheons and wire cables, electric shocks and mock executions. Late last week Baghdad announced that it was temporarily halting broadcast of POW interviews. That...