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April 13, 2003

WP: Seven U.S. Troops Found Safe and Well in Iraq

Reuters reports that:

Seven American prisoners were found safe and well in Iraq on Sunday after their captors apparently fled from U.S. Marines advancing on Saddam Hussein's crumbling northern bastion of Tikrit.

U.S. officials said the group, comprising all seven people on the U.S. list of prisoners of war in the Iraqi war so far, included five members of an ambushed Army convoy and two pilots of a downed Apache attack helicopter.

More details here: Seven U.S. Troops Found Safe and Well in Iraq, in the Washington Post

Posted By Dean Esmay at April 13, 2003 10:26 PM | TrackBack

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I don't want to seem cruel, but there are at least four other threads in this blog today detailing the POW's return...

Posted by: CERDIP at April 13, 2003 10:34 PM

Yeah, for a second there I tought we found some MIAs.

Posted by: ElCapitanAmerica at April 13, 2003 10:35 PM

We frequently re-post stories if they have scrolled off the main page but are big news, or if there are some new details.

People seem to have a high degree of interest in this story.

Posted by: Dean Esmay at April 13, 2003 10:52 PM

We do? I didn't think we did.

What's new with this?

Posted by: Patrick Grote at April 13, 2003 10:55 PM

It depends on the report, Patrick. There's no formal system in place. As yet, anyway.

Posted by: Dean Esmay at April 13, 2003 10:57 PM

"We frequently re-post stories if they have scrolled off the main page but are big news, or if there are some new details."

Uh, OK. But how about when you DO repost, label it REPOSTED and link to the earlier commandpost story and not a new outside article.

Posted by: Dave at April 13, 2003 11:05 PM

Chill out you guys, it's not that big a deal.

Posted by: ERDV at April 13, 2003 11:14 PM

It would be a lot easier to be critical if we had to pay for any of this great service. We don't even have to put up with crappy advertisements. There is little but a small "donate" icon that gets ignored as much as Martin Sheen.

The Command Post has been a great, great site during this war. Gulf War I put CNN on the map; Gulf War II will put Blogs on the map.

As a reader, and not one of the fine contributors, I have to ask that we all quit whining.

Posted by: Cowboy Bob at April 13, 2003 11:36 PM

As a reader, I second Cowboy Bob's remarks. Also, as someone who has a job and can't really check in here more than once a day, I'm happy the POW story got reposted, okay? Thanks to all. Keep up the good work and let the children learn to face a little (and I do mean little) adversity on their own.

Posted by: marymcl at April 14, 2003 02:30 AM

IT would be better if you just show the references to other posts on this without the "hey, we already..." comments. Just say "Also seen here..."

Posted by: Teej at April 14, 2003 06:37 AM

Interesting how the POWS said that the "executed" POWs were in fact killed in the firefight.

Posted by: anon at April 14, 2003 04:38 PM