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DoD News Briefing Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz Sunday, April 6, 2003 - 10:30 A.M. EDT (Also participating; Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace on NBC "Meet The Press") MR. RUSSERT: With us now for an update on the situation in Iraq, two central members of the president's war cabinet, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace; Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. Gentlemen, welcome both. GEN. PACE: Good morning. MR. WOLFOWITZ: Thank you. MR. RUSSERT: Mr. Wolfowitz, what is the status, the state of Operation Iraqi Freedom? MR. WOLFOWITZ:...

WASHINGTON — Iraq has executed prisoners of war, the Pentagon's No. 2 general said Wednesday night as he listed a series of what he called unprecedented Iraqi violations of the laws of war. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, apparently was referring to some of the U.S. Army troops captured Sunday by Iraqi forces in the city of An Nasiriyah. Iraqi state television later showed video footage of five living POWs and the bodies of at least five U.S. soldiers. Defense officials who have viewed the tape have said privately that several of the...

WASHINGTON - Iraq has executed prisoners of war, the Pentagon's No. 2 general said Wednesday night as he listed a series of what he called unprecedented Iraqi violations of the laws of war. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, apparently was referring to some of the U.S. Army troops captured Sunday by Iraqi forces in the city of An Nasiriyah. Iraqi state television later showed video footage of five living POWs and the bodies of at least five U.S. soldiers. Defense officials who have viewed the tape have said privately that several of the...