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WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein has been designated an EPW, not a POW, the Pentagon clarified yesterday. The enemy prisoner of war designation, cited by Pentagon spokeswoman Megan Grafton, may be used by the feds to get around the prisoner of war protections the U.S. agreed to when it signed the 1948 Geneva Convention, a legal expert said. "I've never heard the term EPW used," said Michael Noone, a retired Air Force JAG officer who teaches law at Catholic University. "It's certainly not in the Geneva Conventions." He said the Defense Department "might be using the EPW designation to justify some...

Filed at 2:56 p.m. ET UMM QASR, Iraq (Reuters) - Hurling rocks, bottles filled with sand and wooden stakes, detainees at the only permanent U.S. prisoner-of-war camp in Iraq riot almost daily, military officials said on Sunday. Anger over slow food lines or disputes between different ethnic groups can spark uprisings -- especially with ringleaders quick to incite riots inside the prison that houses about 6,000 Iraqis under long white open tents, they said. ``Pretty much every day there's a riot. It can get real ugly in there for the MPs (military police),'' said Maj. Joel Droba of the 13th...

Baghdad: 1,400 Iraqis dead By Bob Graham in Baghdad and James Langton in Washington, Evening Standard 4 April 2003 The roads to Baghdad this morning were littered with burning tanks and the bodies of hundreds of dead Iraqi soldiers. In a night of ferocious fighting, more than 1,000 Iraqi soldiers were estimated killed in a five-hour running battle with the US infantry. In a separate battle at Baghdad airport, more than 400 Iraqis died as the Americans took control. Dawn broke to reveal a scene of carnage all across the suburbs of the city. One TV reporter travelling with the...