Coalition takes 3,500 Iraqi prisoners

AP via KSTP ^ | 3/25/03 | Matt Kelley

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WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. and allied forces have now taken in "excess of 3,500 Iraqi prisoners," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday.

At a Pentagon briefing, Rumsfeld said humanitarian assistance "food, water and medicine" is already being delivered. Still, after five days of ground combat, he sought to minimize expectations of a swift end to the war.

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Huh? Only an excess of 3,500 Iraqis??? What happened to the 8,000 from the entire division that surrendered?

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