Marines Find Six U.S. Prisoners of War -Report
Sun April 13, 2003 06:50 AM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces pushing north from Baghdad have found six U.S. prisoners of war who are now safe with a Marine unit, CNN reported on Sunday.
The television network quoted a reported traveling with the U.S. forces, James Kitfield of the National Journal, as saying information was still sketchy.
"Word just got through... They are alive and I don\'t have more information than that," Kitfield said in a telephone interview on CNN.
A spokesman for U.S. Central Command said there was no immediate confirmation of the report. "Right now we don\'t have any information on that. We hope it\'s true," said spokesman Captain Stewart Upton.