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kept asking.”
“I thought I would never see my
wife again,” said a sobbing Chief
Warrant Officer David Williams,
30, of Orlando, Fla.
The POWs, some still wearing
striped pajamas issued by their
captors, were flown by C-130
transport to Kuwait for medical
checkups. Young, Miller and Sgt.
James Riley, 31, of Pennsauken,
N.J., all appeared healthy.
"All the words in the
world can't explain
how I feel."
Edgar Hernandez
U.S. special forces soldier
Johnson limped from bullet
wounds in both her ankles, Spc.
Joseph Hudson, 23, of Alamagor
do, N.M., had gunshot wounds to
the buttocks and side, and Spc.
Edgar Hernandez, 21, of Mission,
Texas, was wounded in the right
arm, but all walked on and off the
plane and seemed in good spirits,
if unshaven and bedraggled and
not a little shocked.
“All the words in the world
can’t explain how I feel,” Hernan
dez said during the one-hour
flight to Kuwait.
Col. Larry Brown, operations
chief for the 1st Marine Expedi
tionary Force, said the POWs were
rescued after some of their guards
approached Marines near the
town of Samara north of Baghdad.
The guards told the Marines their
officers had deserted, and they
wanted to hand over the Ameri
cans. Other Marines said towns
people tipped them to the house
where the Americans were held.
Five of the POWs were mem
bers of the Army’s 507th Battal
ion’s “Lost Patrol,” a lightly guard
ed supply convoy that got lost and
wandered into an ambush in the
south central Iraqi city of
Nasiriyah on March 23, the first
Sunday of the war. Five soldiers
were killed and six were captured,
including Pfc. Jessica Lynch, who
was rescued last week.
Two of the POWs were aboard
an Apache attack helicopter when
it went down over southeastern
Baghdad on that same day.
Back in Washington, President
George W. Bush on Sunday ac
cused Syria of having weapons of
mass destruction and of harboring
fleeing Iraqi leaders, raising ques
tions about whether that country
might be the next target for the
U.S. military.
“We believe there are chemical
weapons in Syria,” Bush said.
“Each situation will require a dif
ferent response.”
He also said he expects Syria to
stop harboring cronies of Saddam
Hussein believed to have fled
there as their government in Iraq
collapsed.
“The Syrian government needs
to cooperate with the United
States and our coalition partners
and not harbor any Baathists, any
military officials, any people who
need to be held to account for
their tenure” in Iraq, Bush told re
porters Sunday.
Bush sidestepped a question
about whether the United States
might threaten war against Syria if
it did not cooperate with U.S. de
mands. “They just need to cooper
ate,” he said in response.
Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld also brushed aside ques
tions about war against Syria.
"The Syrian
government needs to
cooperate with the
United States and our
coalition partners
and not harbor any
Baathists, any military
officials, any people
who need to be held
to account for their
tenure!'
George W.Bush
president
“That’s above my pay grade,” he
said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”
program. “Those are the kinds of
things that countries and presi
dents decide.”
Syrian officials denied that
Iraqi officials had escaped to their
country.
© 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
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