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Subject: Photographer Says Iraqi Captors Treated Her Well

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Date Posted: 20:27:57 04/07/03 Mon

Photographer Says Iraqi Captors Treated Her Well
07.04.2003 [20:41]

U.S. freelance photographer Molly Bingham said on Monday she was treated well by Iraqi authorities who arrested her at her Baghdad hotel and held her in prison for more than a week.
Bingham, along with two Newsday journalists, said she was taken by seven Iraqi troops from her hotel late at night. The three were blindfolded and led to a Baghdad prison where she was questioned.

"I've paid for worse hotel rooms in Africa," Bingham said of her cell phone on NBC's "Today" show. "It was decent it was a clean cell. I slept on a cement floor with two wool blankets. I was given three meals a day and had access to a bathroom."

"I will say that I was treated humanely, I think we all were. We weren't physically abused in any way," she added.

Bingham, who turned up safely in neighboring Jordan last week after being released, said she and her fellow reporters heard other prisoners being beaten.

"I heard several the first night. I think there's a really good chance I slept through other things," she said, adding that one night she heard a scuffle during which a prisoner was beaten and plunged in water.

Bingham, whose family founded two Kentucky papers, worked as official photographer for former Vice President Al Gore during his failed presidential bid in 2000. She had also covered conflict from Africa to Afghanistan before going to Iraq.

Reuters

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