http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/13/sprj.irq.war.main/index.html
I’m stunned. And very, excitedly happy.
To tell the truth, I had assumed they’d all be dead or hideously maimed by now. 
Thank God they’re (more or less, one hopes) all right.
My assumptions about the behavior of the Saddam regime have been altered, I have to say. I thought the very worst of them, and I was wrong. I’m so glad I was wrong.
Well, not so much the Saddam regime but it reflects on the particular soldiers and officials in whatever was the unit in charge of these POWs*. Then again, NOT summarily executing your prisoners just because they’d burden your escape is the minimum I should expect and demand of anyone. This does seem to suggest, in the case of the members of the 507th, that it was the already dead or dying or too badly injured to easily move around (Lynch) who were left behind at Nazariya.
*And probably the reason they kept them alive and reasonably confined was because they (a) considered them a valuable commodity and (b) feared the consequences. They had no such compunctions about, say, internal dissidents.
Wonderful news! 