HIGHWAY OF DEATH
Iraqi Division Gives Up To US Forces -- Article
3/22/2003
Saturday morning, American Marines and British troops rumbled within nine miles
from Basra on the main road from the Kuwaiti border, Highway 80 - nicknamed
the Highway of Death during the 1991 Gulf War when U.S. airstrikes
wiped out an Iraqi military convoy along it.
They rolled past abandoned concrete Iraqi military barracks, white flags fluttering
from their roofs, burnt military vehicles beside them. Bedraggled Iraqi civilians
watched blankly, some children motioning with their hands to their mouths.
In the wake of the British and Americans, were surrendered soldiers. Up to 50
Iraqi captives were left packed into improvised pens of concertina wire, watched
over by Marines. Partly disassembled rifles taken from the surrendering soldiers
were piled beside the road.
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