(New York Times) Dexter Filkins - The Iraqi private with a bullet wound in the back of his head suggested something unusually grim. One Iraqi prisoner after another has told captors that many Iraqi soldiers were fighting at gunpoint, threatened with death by tough Saddam loyalists. The wounded Iraqi, whose life was ebbing away outside an American field hospital, had been shot with a small-caliber bullet, most likely from a pistol, fired at close range.
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