"Iraqi Forces Block Americans, Show POWs on TV" (Hassan Hafidh for Reuters, 3/23/03):
For the public on the other side, the media focus was on the treatment of the American prisoners shown on television.
"I was just under orders," said one soldier, who gave his name only as Miller. "I don't want to kill anybody."
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called it a breach of the Geneva Convention, which bans subjecting prisoners of war to "public curiosity." Baghdad pledged to respect the law.
Iraqi prisoners taken by U.S. and British troops have also been filmed and interviewed by foreign television stations.
