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<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A trusted Iraqi on the CIA payroll gathered key information that led to the raid in Nasiriya, Iraq, that freed Pfc. Jessica Lynch from captivity, CNN has learned.</p> <p>Sources tell CNN the operative was trained and equipped with a hidden video camera to tape images of the hospital, including the location of her room and the route the special forces team would take.</p>

Iraqi On CIA Payroll Aided In US POW Lynch Rescue - CNN NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The rescue of former U.S. prisoner of war Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital was aided by information provided by an Iraqi paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, CNN reported Tuesday. The Iraqi, who's identity was not provided, carried a concealed video camera and taped entry and exit points as well as the room in which Lynch was held before U.S. soldiers carried out their rescue, CNN reported. Intelligence already had been received pointing to the existence of a U.S. POW at the hospital. The...

Submitted by: I Marine Expeditionary Force Story Identification Number: 200341565546 Story by Sgt. Joseph R. Chenelly MARINE COMBAT HEADQUARTERS, Central Iraq (April 15, 2003) -- On a tip from an Iraqi official, Marine with D Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, dashed through sniper fire on the streets of Samarra, Iraq. The pushed on in the early morning of April 12 even as they felt the situation was eerily resembling the beginning of an infamous battle in Somalia which they had studied during training. The streets and rooftops in the town square quickly began to fill as the Marines searched...

American POWs recall harrowing ambush Monday, April 14, 2003BY JUAN O. TAMAYO KRT NEWS SERVICE ABOARD A C-130 OVER IRAQ -- Yesterday, on her 21st day as an Iraqi prisoner of war, Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson thought that she and six other American prisoners of war would be killed because their guards were afraid of the ever-approaching American attacks."We were a hot potato," said Johnson, 30, an Army cook with six-inch braids. The POWs were moved through six holding places in the last six days alone, she said. "It was getting to the point where I believed they were going...

ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK — The Navy has identified the remains of an F/A-18 Hornet pilot assigned to the USS Kitty Hawk and missing since his plane was shot down April 2, according to the aircraft carrier’s commanding officer. Capt. Thomas Parker said the body of Lt. Nathan D. White, 30, of Abilene, Texas, was found Saturday. He was a pilot with Strike Fighter Squadron 195, the Dambusters. He is survived by his wife and three children. “Nathan White was a fine officer and a great pilot,” Parker said. “We send our best to his family and his shipmates.”...

RESCUED POWS SAFE: Private Shoshana Johnson (centre) was one of seven captured US service personnel rescued by US Marines in Iraq. "We are ecstatic that not only is she safe, but that all the POWs are in US hands," said her father Claude Johnson in a statement. RELIEF: All were said to be in good health, although two had gunshot wounds. The wounded were not identified in early reports.Heading Home: They were handed over by Iraqi soldiers in the town of Samarra, about 35 miles south of Tikrit in northern Iraq, after a tip-off from locals.SMILE: They were flown to...

Being reported on CNN - 6 POWs - found alive. No more information.

Seven American POW's, including tewo helicopter pilots as well as members of the 507th Maintenance Company, have been turned over to a Marine unit near amarra without a fight. The unit was in the area for another mission, when an Iraqi policeman apporached and said "I know you are here for the prisoners".

Troops find body of missing soldier By MICHAEL SPRENGELMEYER April 12, 2003 Stone-faced soldiers bowed their heads as a chaplain recited prayer over the body an American soldier found dead Saturday in a shallow grave on the southern outskirts of Iraq. The soldier had been missing and feared dead since last week when his infantry unit was ambushed by Iraqi militia in the Baghdad suburb of Al Dora. His identity was being withheld pending notification of his family. Finding his remains had been a priority mission for the members of the 101st Airborne Division who swept into the southern part...

Seven missing US troops head to hospital-CNN BAGHDAD, April 13 (Reuters) - Seven missing U.S. soldiers emerged from helicopters on Sunday and were taken into ambulances near Baghdad, including one African-American woman, CNN reported. Five of the troops ran out of the helicopter upon arriving at a U.S.-controlled airstrip and two walked slowly, apparently having suffered injuries, an embedded CNN correspondent said. The United States had previously listed seven soldiers as captured in the Iraq war, including five members of an Army military maintenance company taken on March 23 when their convoy made a wrong turn in southern Iraq and...

<p>April 13, 2003 -- AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar - None of the missing servicemen listed as prisoners of war have been found, despite searches of Iraqi prisons, U.S. military officials said yesterday. Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said the collapse of Saddam Hussein's rule meant ordinary Iraqis were starting to provide information to U.S.-led forces, some of which could help locate the POWs.</p>

<p>April 12, 2003 -- President Bush yesterday vowed to find the seven missing American POWs, whose whereabouts are still unknown three days after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.</p> <p>"We will use every resource we have to find any POWs that are alive," the president told reporters yesterday. "And we pray that they are alive, because if they are we will find them."</p>

Nikki Johnson doesn't like to hear the conflict is almost over -- not with her sister a prisoner of the Iraqis FORT BLISS, Tex. - The Iraqis, giddy with the first breath from under the yoke, were properly jubilant: They, after all, have a country to build. But for the ordinary Americans who make work, tend, staff and feed their young to the great military machine which -- whatever else it has done or may yet do to varying degrees of world approval -- will give the Iraqis that glorious chance, the dramatic fall of Baghdad yesterday was greeted with...

With the impressive Victory looming in Iraq, I am wondering what happened to the following: AMERICAN POWs ... there are still those missing the field and we mustn't miss them. APACHE LONGBOW ... what happened to that Apache Longbow that was "shot down" and paraded in the streets of Baghdad and why the hell didn't we destroy it? Finally, that pesky smoking gun ... I know we'll find it, but it's teasing us. Any other questions still outstanding? Post them here.

<p>Iraq's notorious Rasheed military prison in eastern Baghdad has produced new leads in the search for U.S. and other prisoners of war from the current conflict and the 1991 Persian Gulf war, defense officials said.</p> <p>U.S. Special Forces personnel and CIA intelligence officials are working covertly inside Baghdad and other parts of Iraq to find seven U.S. prisoners of war, including five Army soldiers taken prisoner near Nasiriyah and shown on Arab television, officials said. Eight other soldiers are listed as missing.</p>

U.S. Urgently Searching for POWs in Iraq By MATT KELLEY .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime is complicating one of the U.S. military's top priorities in Iraq: rescuing American soldiers captured during the war. With so many Iraqi troops killed and communications cut off, it's more difficult to find Iraqis who know where the POWs are. The search of a Baghdad military prison where Americans were held prisoner during the 1991 Persian Gulf War found bloody American uniforms, but not the soldiers who had worn them. American forces are listening in on the...

Two wounded U.S. special ops forces rescued in Iraq WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - Two critically wounded U.S. special operations soldiers were rescued from the outskirts of Baghdad and evacuated to a hospital in Kuwait where they are expected to recover, military officials said on Wednesday. A statement from the Combined Forces Air Component Command, which is overseeing the air war in Iraq from Saudi Arabia, described a dramatic effort in which rescue helicopters battled poor visibility and blowing sand and dust to complete the mission. The combat search and rescue team -- a joint effort of the Air Force,...

BLACK HILL, outskirts of Baghdad, April 8 — It took an anti-tank missile to blow a hole through the steel-reinforced wall surrounding the Special Republican Guard's headquarters at the foot of this hill overlooking the capital. An Iraqi soldier on a roof — or perhaps two or more, in the chaos it was not clear — opened fired as Company B of the 101st Airborne Division's 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment poured through the breach this morning. Spec. Sylvester A. Prince, 19, was among those who rushed the sprawling complex under a volley of covering fire aimed at the roof....

F-15 Fighter Lost Over Iraq, 2 Missing By HANS GREIMEL .c The Associated Press CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar (AP) - Coalition rescue teams were searching early Wednesday for two U.S. airmen from a F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet that went down over Iraq two days earlier. A U.S. military source said the plane went down near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The town is believed to be a stronghold of Iraqi resistance. It was unclear whether the plane was shot down, the U.S. Central Command said. The fighter vanished early Monday, but its loss...

WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) -- The strike on "senior Iraqi leaders" in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad that targeted Saddam Hussein and one or both of his sons was "extremely effective" but it could be days before the U.S. government knows whether he was killed or injured -- if it ever does. "It is possible that we may never be able to determine exactly who was present without some detailed forensic work, and that's just -- that's one of the circumstances we have to deal with as we go through this campaign," said Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, Central Command spokesman,...