Article: Iran Releases Some POWs from Iran-Iraq War in Gesture of Good Will.

By Maureen Fan, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 7--BAGHDAD -- When Saber Mohammed Salah last saw home, his daughters were four and seven and his son was two and a half. Today, his daughters are married, his son is an adult, and Salah, after 21 years as a prisoner of war in Iran, feels reborn.

"I feel just like I was dead and came back to life again," Salah said Tuesday, wiping away tears. "My happiness is indescribable."

Salah and 58 other POWs from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war were flown home Monday from Tehran in a good-will gesture aimed at currying favor with the United States.

"No one told ...

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