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Article: POWs from Iraq-Iraq war return home.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- May 6, 2003
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Byline: Maureen Fan
BAGHDAD, Iraq _ 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 us that we will get out," he recalled of his release. "Just four days ...
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