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2 Journalists Freed by Taliban Return to France

  • 01.07.2011
  • MAÏA de la BAUME, nytimes.com
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Two journalists who had been held by the Taliban for more than a year arrived in France on Thursday, visibly relaxed and in good health.

President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla, were among a crowd of about 100 people greeting the journalists, Stéphane Taponier and Hervé Guesquière, at the Villacoublay air base near Paris.
The journalists, who both work for...

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