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Politics : Let's Talk About the War

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To: Ilaine who started this subject	3/29/2003 2:44:59 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 486

>>Two Iraqi soldiers surrendered Friday to CBC reporter Paul Workman and the Globe and Mail's Geoffrey York, the CBC reported. "We were standing in front of a big statue of Saddam Hussein having our pictures taken ... and all of a sudden a couple of guys came up to us with their hands over their heads," Workman said of the incident in the port city of Umm Qasr. Workman said they thought the two men were locals at first but "Geoff York from the Globe and Mail talked to these two guys and it turned out that they were soldiers out of uniform who had been hiding for a week." "They saw us, thought in fact that we were military and came to us to surrender," Workman said. "We put them in our vehicle and took them off to a British regiment that was running a POW camp and we turned them over to them." The two soldiers were brothers, Workman said, "barely 20 years old, conscripts who said they'd been given four days of training then forced into the southern part of the country." Workman and York are among 80 journalists and crew who have been working inside Iraq independent of the so-called "embedded" reporters. There were numerous stories of Iraqis surrendering to western correspondents during the 1991 Gulf war. Workman said the two men "gave up only after running into somebody who'd been in the last Gulf War who said, `You should surrender to the British, they'll look after you.'x " "It's really quite an amusing and interesting experience," he said.<< thestar.com

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