- BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi
television showed film on Sunday of at least four bodies, said to be U.S.
soldiers, and five prisoners who said they were American.
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- Two of the prisoners, including a woman, appeared to
be wounded. One was lying on the floor on a rug.
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- They were the first U.S. prisoners known to have been
taken by Iraq. The prisoners were questioned on air and gave their names,
military identification numbers and home towns.
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- The bodies and prisoners were shown on Iraqi television,
relayed by Al-Jazeera, which said the dead and wounded came from a battle
near the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya, where U.S. Marines are fighting
for control.
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- The first prisoner shown gave his name as Miller and
said he was from Kansas.
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- Asked why he had come to Iraq he replied: "Because
I was told to come here. I was just under orders. I was told to shoot --
only if I'm shot at. I don't want to kill anybody."
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- Earlier, Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said
that enemy soldiers captured at the southern town of Souq al-Shuyukh near
Nassiriya would soon be shown on state television.
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- General Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs
of Staff, told ABC television some Americans -- fewer than 10 -- were missing
in southern Iraq.
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- Souq al-Shuyukh is southeast of the southern Iraqi city
of Nassiriya, where U.S. Marines have reported resistance on their northward
sweep from Kuwait.
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