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Tue. Apr 01, 2003

A Couple of Happy Endings

A Couple of Happy Endings – Number One: “U.S. Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, a prisoner of war whose unit was ambushed near this city south of Baghdad March 23, was rescued from an Iraqi hospital early Wednesday.” She apparently had multiple gunshot wounds, but was described as in stable condition, and has talked to her family.

Number Two: “Newsday journalists Matthew McAllester and Moises Saman, who had been missing in Iraq for eight days while covering the war, were released yesterday by Iraqi authorities after a harrowing week in a notorious prison and have crossed the Jordanian border to freedom [...] ’There were beatings and torture going on outside our cells, in the corridor, literally,’ McAllester said. Other inmates hobbled around, apparently because the soles of their feet had been burned or otherwise injured [...] Two other missing journalists, Molly Bingham, a freelance photographer from Louisville, Ky., and a Danish freelance photographer, Johan Rydeng Spanner, had been detained with the two Newsday staffers. They also were freed yesterday and crossed the Iraqi border into Jordan.”