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Re: 887 Iraqi POWs Released
From: POW-MIA InterNetwork
Date: April 19, 2003
"Allies release 887 Iraqi prisoners
WASHINGTON -Coalition forces sorting through thousands of Iraqi war prisoners have released nearly 900 after determining they were civilians who had nothing to do with the fighting. Other prisoners, particularly high-ranking military or government officials in Saddam Hussein's toppled regime, are being questioned as part of the search for former top Iraqi leaders and weapons of mass destruction.
The United States is holding 6,850 prisoners at a large facility in the southern port city of Umm Qasr, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Ted Wadsworth said Friday. A total of 887 prisoners that had been held in a British camp and in an American camp in Umm Qasr have been released, most of them in the past two weeks, Wadsworth said. Those released were determined to be noncombatants, he said, meaning they did not engage in hostile acts during the war and were not part of a military force. -- ASSOCIATED PRESS"
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