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"They told me my kidney came from an executed prisoner because you get them fresh that way. From the taking of the kidney, it is only a few hours to get it transplanted in me." So said one of six prisoners recovering from a transplant operation at Huaxi University of Medical Sciences in Chengdu, China, whose comments were secretly recorded on videotape in 1994 by Chinese dissident and former political prisoner Harry Wu. Five other patients in the room had also received a "fresh" kidney that day. It is unlikely that it was a mere coincidence that, one the same...

Military tells 507th, kin details of ambush Laura Cruz El Paso Times Army officials have begun telling families and members of Fort Bliss' 507th Maintenance Company what the military's investigation has found about the March 23 ambush in Iraq in which nine 507th soldiers were killed, six captured and four wounded. The families Thursday were not discussing what they had been told because the Army asked them not to speak publicly until all families have been given the information. But Janie Kiehl, mother of slain soldier James Kiehl, who hadn't been briefed on the ambush yet, said that when her...

12:06 AM | NYT will report captives were executed CNN - aaron brown is saying the NYT tomorrow will have a report that some of the POWs were summarily executed, probably publicly."When this word gets out, it's hard to control the troops." Gen. Wesley Clark. Brown said the story will change things. "People will be outraged."

March 26, 2003 Officials Say Iraqis May Have Killed Some PrisonersBy ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER ASHINGTON, March 25 ? Some of the Army mechanics captured on Sunday after they took a wrong turn in the Iraqi town of Nasiriya were apparently executed by their captors, probably in front of townspeople in the area, American officials charged tonight. The officials cautioned tonight that this information was based on a single source, apparently a communications intercept, and that they were seeking corroborating evidence. It is unclear how many of the seven slain soldiers were executed, rather than slain in...

The International Committee of the Red Cross accused coalition forces yesterday of failing to follow the Geneva Conventions in their treatment of prisoners of war. As British and American anger over the parading of five American soldiers on Iraqi television continued unabated, the ICRC said the allies and the Iraqis should re-examine the way they handled PoWs. Referring to Article 13 in the third convention, Florian Westphal, from the ICRC, said PoWs should at all times be humanely treated, protected particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against "insults and public curiosity". He referred to photographs in the media...

See this thread for Iraqi foreign minister's comments regarding treatment of captured Americans.

Sun Mar 23, 1:12 PM ET A combination picture from Iraqi television shows five unidentified prisoners who said they were Americans taken in a battle near the southern city of Nassiriya. Iraqi television showed the video on March 23, 2003 which also showed at least four bodies, said to be U.S. soldiers. (Iraqi TV/Reuters)

Iraq says to respect Geneva Convention for POWs BAGHDAD, March 23 (Reuters) - Iraq's Defence Minister said on Sunday that it would respect the Geneva Convention and would not harm U.S. prisoners of war. "Iraq will not harm the captured prisoners of war," Defence Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmed told a news conference. "It will treat them in accordance with the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war." He also said that the bodies of U.S. soldiers were lying abandoned on a battlefield near the central Iraq city of Nassiriya. He said that Iraq had destroyed 10 tanks and 20 armoured personnel...

Rumsfeld Iraqi footage violates Geneva Convention WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday Iraqi television footage apparently showing American prisoners of war was a violation of the Geneva Convention. On CBS's "Face the Nation," Rumsfeld was shown footage relayed by the Arabic satellite station al-Jazeera that Iraq television claimed were captive U.S. soldiers. "That's a violation of the Geneva Convention, those pictures you showed," Rumsfeld said of the international law on treatment of prisoners of war. He said the convention prohibits the photographing or interrogation by media of those captured in battle.

MSNBC just issued a release from the Army. The POW's were ID's as being from teh 507th Maint Co at Ft Bliss, TX. May God Bless Our Soldiers and President Bush.