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Tuesday, March 25, 2003
THE
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Iraqi TV shows two men said
to be captured U.S. pilots
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi state television
on Monday showed two men said to have been the
U.S. crew of an Apache helicopter forced down
during heavy fighting in central Iraq.
Gen. Tommy Franks, the U.S. war commander,
confirmed that one helicopter did not return from
its mission Sunday and that its two-man crew was
missing. The men were identified as Chief
Warrant Officer Ronald D. Young Jr., 26, of Lithia
Springs, Ga., and Chief Warrant Officer David S.
Williams, 30, of Orlando, Fla.
If confirmed, the airmen would be the second
set of POWs displayed by the Iraqis in as many
days. On Sunday, the Arab satellite station AI-
Jazeera carried Iraqi television footage of five
U.S. soldiers who were captured near An
Nasiriyah, a crossing point over the Euphrates
River.
Unlike those soldiers, the men shown Monday
did not appear to be injured.
The two wore cream-colored pilots’ overalls
and did not speak to the camera but appeared con
fused. They turned their heads and looked in dif
ferent directions while being filmed. One of the
men sipped from a glass of water, looking wary
but not cowed.
The contents of one man’s wallet were dis
played across a table, including a Texas driver’s
license, a card from the Fort Hood National Bank,
phone cards and credit cards.
A spokesman at the U.S. Army Post in Fort
Hood, Texas, said that a helicopter from its 1st
Battalion of the 227th Aviation Regiment was
missing in action in Iraq.
Kuwaiti firefighters find signs
of sabotage of oil well blazes
KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Firefighters attacking
blazes at oil wells in southern Iraq say they’ve
found telltale signs the valuable field was sabo
taged. But it appears Iraqi troops may have dis
obeyed orders to blow up the wells or prepared
explosives that were too weak to do serious dam
age.
It took Kuwaiti firefighters only 15 minutes
and two water cannon Monday to snuff out the
first fire quenched so far at a booby-trapped Iraqi
oil well.
Even though fighting nearby forced some civil
ian firefighters to clear out of the
Kuwait’s senior firefighter, Aisa Bouyabes,<|
believes his team and others can douse fe
remaining blazes m Iraq’s Rumeik South oil i
within two weeks.
Upon inspecting damaged well heads ats. ,
blast sites just across Kuwait’s border withliaj
team discovered a telltale pair of black «i
snaking away from each one.
"These are the same wires that werei
Kuwait to blow up our wells — the samei
exactly. I've seen it before. 1 inspected the wE;]
Kuwait immediately after the liberation,”tail
said by telephone from northern Kuwait.
Saddam Hussein’s troops sabotaged more \
7(X) well heads in Kuwait’s oil fields as they tt.
ed from the emirate in the closing days of the 11
Gulf War.
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