Article: POWs from Iraq-Iraq war return home.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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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