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Mon 04 Apr 2003Two Polish journalists reportedly capturedTwo Polish journalists were being held this evening by armed Iraqi men in the region of Nadjafin in southern Iraq and taken to an unknown destination, their editorial offices in Warsaw said.Mr Adam Pieczynski, director of the private Polish television station TVN 24, said that Mr Marcin Firlej and a colleague from Polish public radio, Mr Jacek Kaczmarek, had been arrested in the area of al-Hillah, by "five, perhaps six armed Iraqis."