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Shaffer
03-17-03, 10:58 AM
CAMP GRIZZLY, Kuwait -- One of the thornier issues facing American troops massed along the border here is not how they will fight the Iraqi Army if President Bush gives the order, but how they will deal with the tens of thousands of Iraqis expected to surrender without firing a shot.

A dozen years ago, US forces were unprepared when large numbers of Iraqi soldiers sought them out in the Kuwaiti desert using everything from pieces of paper to their own underwear as flags of surrender. American troops primed for a gunfight instead found themselves herding people into makeshift prisoner of war camps.

Some of the troops who fought in the 1991 Gulf War remember that US troops didn't know how to deal with the situation. Now, if war starts, they want to be prepared.

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