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EL PASO, Texas - Several former Army prisoners of war, including a still-recovering Spc. Shoshana Johnson, stood at attention under a blazing sun Wednesday to receive medals for their service in Iraq. Johnson, who was shot in the ankle when the 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed March 23 near Nasiriyah, wavered slightly while balancing on a walking cast. Gen. Larry Ellis, commander of Army Forces Command, steadied her as she received the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and the Prisoner of War Medal. She was among 10 soldiers from the 507th, stationed at Fort Bliss, who received medals for their...

EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- Seven former prisoners of war were on their way back to their home posts Saturday, much to the relief of community members who for weeks anxiously hoped for their safe return. "I think there was a bit of fear with all of us," Fort Bliss contract worker Jennifer Murphy said. "There was a fear they wouldn't be found, abandoned in a cell to rot."The much-awaited homecomings were set for Saturday night, when a C-17 aircraft was to return five soldiers from Germany to El Paso's Fort Bliss, then head to Fort Hood in central Texas...

Reuters Seven American soldiers rescued in Iraq were held in separate cells in Baghdad during most of their time as prisoners of war but were moved as US forces advanced on the Iraqi capital, The Washington Post reported today. For 12 to 15 days, the former prisoners could hear the nightly bombing raids as US warplanes pounded Baghdad. They were taken to another location after the prison was rattled by a powerful explosion about 50 metres from the building, the report said. It was the first of many moves. The former prisoners told the newspaper they stayed at a total...

IN STRIPED pyjamas and sandals, seven American prisoners of war limped to freedom in northern Iraq yesterday, after their captors had fled from US forces advancing on President Saddam Hussein’s home city of Tikrit. Blinking from the sunlight as they emerged from 22 days of captivity, the six men and one woman clung to their rescuers, barely believing that they had escaped with their lives. News of the rescue, which included two Apache helicopter pilots shot down over Iraq on March 24, was greeted with jubilation by the soldiers’ families. Some wept with relief as they watched television pictures...

Being reported on CNN - 6 POWs - found alive. No more information.

Seven American POW's, including tewo helicopter pilots as well as members of the 507th Maintenance Company, have been turned over to a Marine unit near amarra without a fight. The unit was in the area for another mission, when an Iraqi policeman apporached and said "I know you are here for the prisoners".

Families of recovered US servicemen notified WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - Several families of U.S. soldiers captured in the Iraq war said they got official confirmation on Sunday that their relatives were safe, CNN reported. The family of Spc. Soshana Johnson, 30, of Kansas, the only woman officially listed by the Pentagon as a prisoner of war, said the Department of Defense Pentagon told them she had been recovered, according to CNN. Ronald Young Sr., the father of Chief Warrant Officer Ronald Young Jr., a captured Army pilot, said he also received official confirmation that his son was among the...

<p>April 12, 2003 -- President Bush yesterday vowed to find the seven missing American POWs, whose whereabouts are still unknown three days after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.</p> <p>"We will use every resource we have to find any POWs that are alive," the president told reporters yesterday. "And we pray that they are alive, because if they are we will find them."</p>

Nikki Johnson doesn't like to hear the conflict is almost over -- not with her sister a prisoner of the Iraqis FORT BLISS, Tex. - The Iraqis, giddy with the first breath from under the yoke, were properly jubilant: They, after all, have a country to build. But for the ordinary Americans who make work, tend, staff and feed their young to the great military machine which -- whatever else it has done or may yet do to varying degrees of world approval -- will give the Iraqis that glorious chance, the dramatic fall of Baghdad yesterday was greeted with...

There is an American black women who has been taken captive by Iraq and she has a child. Let us pray for her.

The daring rescue of American POW Private First Class Jessica Lynch is the feel-good story of the war, not least because of the heroic role played by an Iraqi named Mohammed. The 32-year-old lawyer risked his life to tell US marines Lynch was being held captive at the hospital in Nasiriyah where his wife worked as a nurse. Motivated by compassion, Mohammed told reporters how "my heart cut" when he saw the bandaged 19-year-old blonde being slapped around by a Fedayeen commander. No wonder Hollywood is vying for such a tale of bravery and human goodness that transcends war and...

When US special forces snatched Private Lynch from Iraqi hands they saved a wounded teenager. Mark Franchetti, who was with the marine patrol that got the first tip that she was alive, tells her story An unusual message came crackling over the radios of American marines in central Iraq on Tuesday night: “Precious cargo secured.” The cryptic words produced an audible sigh of relief from the soldiers. Yet it was not the capture of Baghdad or some other military trophy being announced. The triumph was the daring rescue of a teenager from West Virginia. In one of the most dramatic...

The captured American Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson, by all accounts, had no intention of becoming a feminist icon. A note of unseemly glee has greeted the tragedy of her falling into the hands of the Iraqis, as if to say, "Look, women can be prisoners of war, too!" The New York Times ran an editorial titled "The Pinking of the Armed Forces," hailing Johnson's capture a reminder of how the American military has evolved, slowly and sometimes reluctantly, into an organization where the dangerous jobs of war are performed by both sexes." One can only wait for other leaps ahead...

Signs of U.S. POWs found at hospital NBC: Bloodied female U.S. uniforms found at hospital March 28 -- U.S. Marines now control a hospital where they say they found bloodied U.S. uniforms. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports. NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES AN NASIRIYAH, March 28 — U.S. Marines who secured a hospital that had been used by Iraqi forces later found several bloodied U.S. uniforms worn by female soldiers, NBC’s Kerry Sanders reported Friday from the hospital. The find suggested that Iraq had held several POWs at the hospital, which is in An Nasiriyah, a town where at least five...

<p>What can you say about the men in a society that sends women to fight its wars?</p> <p>The temptation is to call them cowards. That might be too harsh (or it might not be). Whatever and whoever they are, they ought to feel shame and mortification when they look upon the photographs of Shoshana Johnson, a 30-year-old single mother of a 2-year-old daughter, languishing in an Iraqi prison. We can only hope that what is probably happening to her, at the hands of men who are taught by their degraded culture and abased religion to regard women as throwaway vessels of their perversions, is not happening to her.</p>

<p>We have a different understanding of women in the kitchen this week. Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson, a chef in the Army, is now one of the American POWs in Iraqi custody.</p> <p>"I thought she was cooking," her aunt Margaret Henderson remarked on the "Today" show Monday. No such luck. Ms. Johnson and four male comrades were captured when their unit reportedly took a wrong turn near Nasiriya, south of Baghdad. Ms. Johnson's face has now been displayed to the Arab world as a propaganda trophy, testifying to some kind of a great Iraqi "victory."</p>