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A body believed to be that of journalist Alec Collett, killed at the height of Lebanon's 1975-90 Civil War was transferred to London on Thursday to conduct DNA tests. British experts working in eastern Lebanon have recovered a body believed to be that of Collett on Tuesday. The nine-member British team, comprising military and intelligence specialists, had found two bodies while searching in eastern Bekaa.

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