- AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar (Reuters)
- U.S. forces have recovered "six or seven" missing or captured
U.S. soldiers in Iraq who are in good shape, U.S. war commander Gen. Tommy
Franks said on Sunday.
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- CNN reported seven missing U.S. soldiers emerged from
helicopters on Sunday and were taken into ambulances near Baghdad. Five
of the troops ran out of the helicopter upon arriving at a U.S.-controlled
airstrip and two walked slowly, apparently having suffered injuries, an
embedded CNN correspondent said.
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- "They're in good shape and I know they're in our
hands and under our control now and that's very good," Franks told
CNN from war headquarters in the Gulf state of Qatar.
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- "What I don't know is whether they're from the ones
we had listed as prisoners of war or whether they're from the missing category."
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- He said he hoped to have more details later on Sunday.
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- CNN reported earlier that U.S. forces pushing north from
Baghdad had found six U.S. prisoners of war who were now safe.
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- The Pentagon's most recent figures list 10 troops as
missing and seven as prisoners.
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- U.S. special forces rescued captured 19-year-old Jessica
Lynch in the city of Nassiriya on April 1, in what officials said was the
first rescue of a U.S. prisoner from behind enemy lines since World War
II.
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- She had been held for nine days after her maintenance
company convoy made a wrong turn and came under Iraqi fire.
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- Some 110 U.S. soldiers have been killed and about 400
wounded in the war so far.
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