April Casualties
From Centcom
Justice Dept: POWs Not Entitled to Iraqi Funds
From the Washington Post
Excerpt: Justice Department lawyers argued yesterday that President Bush's decision to remove Iraq from the list of terrorism-sponsoring states nullified a $653 million judgment awarded to former U.S. prisoners of war tortured by the Iraqi military during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. ...
...The veterans say the administration is ignoring their suffering during the war. "I take exception to the fact that someone wants to tear up the record of how I was treated in prisoner of war camps," David Eberly, 56, a retired Air Force colonel living in Williamsburg said after the hearing. "It's beyond me why the government has now turned its back on the men and women who served in the Gulf War." ...