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Thu 04 Apr 2003War News Digest
A group of journalists who disappeared from a Baghdad hotel and spent about a week in an Iraqi jail said yesterday they were not physically harmed but had heard the sounds of other prisoners being beaten.
"We could hear screams, especially at night," Matthew McAllester (33), a British-born correspondent for the US newspaper Newsday, said in the Jordanian capital.
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