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IRAQ: A picture is worth...

January 31, 2008 |  5:28 am

One Iraqi prisoner held by the U.S. military who would not say much during interrogation found another way to convey his feelings about America.

The prisoner secretly spent hours drawing a picture of New York's Twin Towers on the back of his prison jumpsuit — just as the towers looked before Sept. 11. Guards were amazed at the detail, since the prisoner had no materials in his cell.

Sensing the drawing was meant as a hostile act, guards seized the jumpsuit.

— Tony Perry in Al Asad, Iraq


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