AFTERMATH OF WAR : Straggler Surrenders

A bedraggled IRAQI SOLDIER SURRENDERED to startled Western journalists on Wednesday, SIX DAYS AFTER THE SHOOTING STOPPED in the Gulf War. “I’m fed up,” Pvt. Youssef Mohsen Samari told reporters near a U.S. checkpoint three miles inside Iraq. “I’m here for you to save me, take me anywhere you want,” he said softly. The soldier, whose only possession was a shaving kit in a dirty plastic bag, said he had been walking for two days through the southern Iraqi desert, steering clear of highways and army roadblocks. The journalists took him to the U.S. camp a few hundred yards away.