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Oh boy one has to believe that Huckabee will be getting some blow-back from this. These push polls have even brought out the South Carolina Attorney General to make this statement: “Last evening the Associated Press reported that that an out-of-state special interest group, Common Sense Issues, had launched a massive push polling effort disparaging John McCain and other candidates for president. In their push poll, Common Sense Issues makes several misleading claims regarding John McCain’s record.“Allow me to set the record straight. In the U.S. Senate, John McCain has been an unwavering voice for the rights of the unborn....

US Marines moved into the southern Iraqi town of Shatrah today to recover the body of a dead comrade which had been hanged in the town square, officers said. Hundreds of troops were dispatched on the operation after intelligence reports indicated the body of a dead American, who was killed in a firefight last week, had been paraded through the streets and hanged in public. "We would like to retrieve the body of the marine but it is not our sole purpose," said Lieutenant-Colonel Pete Owen, of the First Marine Expeditionary Force. Military sources said another part of the operation...

SOUTHERN IRAQ (AFP) - Three US troops were wounded , one seriously, after Iraqi soldiers used a Red Crescent ambulance to stage an attack in southern Iraq (news - web sites), an AFP correspondent reported. The Iraqi troops in Monday opened fire on a group of American soldiers who had approached the ambulance at a town north of Nasiriyah. The seriously injured soldier would be evacuated, while two others were undergoing surgery at a captured air base, a US air force source said.

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...

Iraqi paramilitaries are using civilians as human shields, Sky News has learnt. Militiamen facing besieging British troops outside Basra are forcing locals to march in front of them as they fire on soldiers, UK forces claim.

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

TEXT ONLY 23 Mar 2003 19:15 UTC About VOA BROADCAST LANGUAGES BROADCASTS   Latest NewscastNews Now LiveOther WebcastsProgram ScheduleNews Now-        ProgrammingVOA TV PROGRAMS TOPICS   Arts & Culture Business Health & Medicine Science & Tech Sports POLICY & ANALYSIS   EditorialsFocus INSIDE VOA NEWS CorrespondentsPronunciation GuideContact VOANEWS Bodies of US Soldiers Indicate Possible Execution, say US officialsAlex BelidaPentagon23 Mar 2003, 20:11 UTC Listen to Alex Belida's Report (RealAudio)  Belida Report - Download 118k (RealAudio)   Defense officials say the bodies of what may be American soldiers shown in a controversial Arab television broadcast have wounds indicating they were probably executed....

Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar-AP -- U-S military officials say troops are encountering some deceptive tactics by Iraqis. They say in one case, a group of Iraqis displayed a surrender flag -- and then, when U-S troops moved to accept the surrender, the Iraqis opened up with artillery fire. They say in another episode, some Iraqi troops dressed in civilian clothes appeared to welcome the arriving coalition forces -- and then ambushed them. Military commanders say the tactics are dangerous to coalition troops -- but that they won't stand in the way of the success of the mission in Iraq.

U.S. admits hardest day, slams prisoner pictures AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar, March 23 (Reuters) - The United States said on Sunday that fighting around the city of Nassiriya was the "sharpest engagement" of the four-day war in Iraq so far, but it still expected to near Baghdad soon. "It's the toughest day of resistance that we've had thus far. We understand that there may be other tough days ahead of us but the outcome is still certain," U.S. Army General John Abizaid told a news conference at Central Command headquarters. He said 12 U.S. service members were missing in the...

Iraqi troops used "ruses" to kill U.S. troops -U.S. AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar, March 23 (Reuters) - The United States said on Sunday that Iraqi troops were using "ruses" to kill U.S. troops invading their country, on one occasion dressing as civilians to ambush them. "There were several incidents reported today in which there were types of behaviour that I can only describe as ruses that were perpetrated by the enemy," Lt.Gen. John Abizaid told a news briefing at Central Command headquarters outside Qatar. He said that in one incident an apparent surrender was followed by artillery fire. "In another...