- AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar (Reuters)
- U.S. Central Command on Sunday denied statements by Iraq that U.S.-led
force troops had been captured and that planes had been shot down.
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- "We categorically deny both, that they shot down
any coalition aircraft or took coalition prisoners of war," said U.S.
Marines Captain Stewart Upton, a spokesman at the Qatar command headquarters
of U.S. and British forces in the Gulf.
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- "More lies from the Iraqis," he told Reuters.
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- Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said on Sunday
that captured enemy soldiers would soon be shown on state television, while
an Iraqi defense ministry spokesman said a total of seven U.S. and British
aircraft had been shot down.
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