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Iraq accuses us showing civilain pows { March 26 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30099-2003Mar26.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30099-2003Mar26.html Iraq Accuses U.S. of Showing Civilians as POWs Reuters Wednesday, March 26, 2003; 3:48 AM BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi authorities accused U.S.-led forces on Wednesday of kidnapping local civilians and showing them off as captured prisoners of war. A communique read out by a military spokesman on Iraqi state television said U.S. and British forces advancing through southern Iraq had broken the rules of war by displaying Iraqi civilians as POWs at Umm Qasr and near Basra. "(This was) to show public opinion they had seized military men...particularly after they promised their people that the Iraqi army, leadership and people would surrender after a few days," the communique said. "We hold the Americans and the British responsible for violating international laws and conventions by detaining civilians and considering them as prisoners of war." Fierce Iraqi resistance at the southern port of Umm Qasr held up U.S. and British efforts to move humanitarian aid into southern Iraq for days. © 2003 Reuters

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