# POWs?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pows/84506>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 29, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pows/84506 "2001-09-29T19:08:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pows/84506/1 "2001-09-29T19:08:50Z")

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What’s up?

[Confusion Over ‘Afghans Take U.S. Forces’ Report](http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010929/ts/attack_dc_235.html)

[Al-Jazeera TV stands by story that “US special forces” captured](http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s=asia/headlines/010929/world/afp/Al-Jazeera_TV_stands_by_story_that __US_special_forces__ captured.html)

[Taleban deny capture of US troops](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1570000/1570231.stm)

These are news links, so they may expire.

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**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pows/84506/2 "2001-09-30T01:06:26Z")

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I’d say the media is going off half cocked with “alleged reports” of stuff that might one day be proven to “be true.” Remember the bombs exploding around DC, a hijack crew being arrested at the NY airport the first day planes were allowed to fly, ad nausem.