61.   Baghdad denies it holds any prisoners.

62.   Baghdad denies it holds any prisoners from the Gulf crisis.

63.   Baghdad maintains it is not holding Kuwaiti prisoners.

64.   Baghdad denies it holds any prisoners from its seven-month occupation of Kuwait or the Gulf War that evicted Iraqi troops five years ago.

65.   Baghdad long has denied holding any prisoners.

66.   Both countries deny they are holding any prisoners.

67.   But after visiting two of ten sites rumored to hold prisoners, she said she found no evidence of slave labor.

68.   But Justice Minister Oltan Sungurlu said Buca served as a detention place for suspects awaiting trial and could no longer hold the prisoners who were recently convicted.

69.   But many other political prisoners are held on trumped-up criminal charges and given sentences out of proportion to their alleged misdeeds, the report said.

70.   But the Chechens said they were holding Russian prisoners in the presidential palace and would not release them.