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In the "its a small world after all" and everyone comes to America vein we have this attractive entry from early 1991.

Unknown: US GI captures Iraqi soldier during Gulf War - they knew each other from Chicago.

While there were a number of newspaper reports found by Bo Bradham and his overworked assistant that featured this story Peter van der Linden called three reporters who said that they were merely reporting information told to them by other reporters.

GI, Iraqi Find It's a Small World.--News. Boston Globe: Feb 16, 1991, 2:6 Alan Jones, a policeman in Milwaukee who is serving in the Persian Gulf, was shocked to discover that he knew an Iraqi prisoner who had gone to school in the US.

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TITLE: War Reunion for Iraqi, Midwest Soldier SOURCE: Chicago Tribune DATE: Feb 16, 1991 ABSTRACT: An Iraqi POW who had been an engineering student in Wheeling IL and visiting his father in Iraq when he was drafted into the Navy told Wheeling policeman and Sergeant Alan Jones that he knew him. Jones says the two must have passed each other often on the street.

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