WORLD : Iraq to Free 4 Hostages--Clark
Iraq will release four more American hostages, former U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark said today after concluding an independent peace mission to Baghdad.
“I was told that two were going to be released today and apparently did not make it on the plane and that they will be out on the next plane whenever that is,” Clark told reporters on arrival in Amman from Baghdad.
“I think it will be tomorrow, and there will be two more after that,” said Clark, who arrived on the daily Iraqi Airways flight from the Iraqi capital.
Clark, a peace activist who traveled to Hanoi during the Vietnam War, is the second prominent American to go to Baghdad since Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2. Former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson was there in August.
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