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Politics : Idea Of The Day

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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43990)4/8/2003 5:45:20 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (2) of 50167
 
For the "(w)here are the happy Iraqis?

BAGHDAD (AFP)(4/08)- More than 100 children held in a prison celebrated their freedom as US marines rolled into northeast Baghdad ... a US officer said.

Around 150 children spilled out of the jail after the gates were opened as a US military Humvee vehicle approached, Lieutenant Colonel Fred Padilla told an AFP correspondent travelling with the Marines 5th Regiment.

"Hundreds of kids were swarming us and kissing us," Padilla said. "There were parents running up, so happy to have their kids back."

"The children had been imprisoned because they had not joined the youth branch of the Baath party," he alleged. "Some of these kids had been in there for five years."
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