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Iran releases 20 Iraqi prisoners of war
From The "And You Thought You Had A Bad Decade" Department.Iran has released 20 Iraqi prisoners captured during the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran War, the official Iraqi News Agency reported Tuesday. The agency, quoting an Iraqi foreign ministry source, said the Iraqi prisoners arrived at the al-Munthiriya border post 106 miles (170 kilometers) east of Baghdad late Monday. The International Committee of the Red Cross supervised the handover. The source said the joint Iraqi-Iranian committee held a meeting Saturday at Munthiriya and discussed the repatriation of the Iraqi prisoners of war. The two sides also agreed to follow up the issue of missing Iraqis and Iranians. Posted by: Steve 2002-11-19 |
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