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Taliban free 4 kidnapped ICRC staff-spokesman
29 Sep 2007 13:30:48 GMT
Source: Reuters
KABUL, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Four staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) kidnapped by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan three days ago were freed on Saturday, a Taliban spokesman said.

"The four employees of the ICRC who were kidnapped by the Taliban because of some suspicions have been released just now," the spokesman told Reuters by telephone from an unknown location.
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Claire Bonnelie of the conservation department of the International Rec Cross Committee (ICRC) displays a WWI prisoner card reading the name of Charles de Gaulle as captain in the 33rd Regiment of the 10th Company, at the Red Cross Museum in Geneva November 12, 2007. Archives recording the fate of two million prisoners, captured during World War One, including French singer Maurice Chevalier and French captain Charles de Gaulle who later became president, will enter UNESCO's "Memory of the World" register November 15. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND)



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