POWs certain they faced execution

THE seven rescued US prisoners of war (POWs) were increasingly certain they faced death, as their Iraqi captors were unsure what to do with them.

Instead, after three weeks in captivity, the POWs were freed on Sunday, when US Marines stormed a house near the northern town of Samarra, where they were being held.

“It was getting to the point where I believed they were going to kill us,” Shoshana Johnson, from 507th Maintenance Company, told a Washington Post reporter.