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Five American prisoners of war and at least eight dead GIs - three of whom had apparently been executed - were put on display for Iraqi TV cameras in sickening images broadcast around the world by an Arab news network, reports the New York Post. Iraqi forces ambushed US troops at a key Euphrates River crossing on the march toward Baghdad, killing an estimated 16 Americans and capturing at least five in two clashes that resulted in the largest number of US casualties of the four-day-old campaign to take down President Saddam Hussein's government.Iraqis took their first American prisoners, and...