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Taliban: Afghan Government Freed Prominent Taliban Members to Secure Release of Italian Hostage; Freed Italian Journalist Writes On Kidnapping

In a communiqué posted on Islamist websites on March 20, 2007, the Taliban named five of its members who had been released from Afghan prisons under an Afghan-negotiated deal to free Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo (see "Taliban: Afghan Government Freed Prominent Taliban Members to Secure Release of the Italian Hostage" ).

Mastrogiacomo wrote today in the Italian daily La Repubblica about being kidnapped by the Taliban and forced to witness the beheading of his driver.

Source: MEMRI.org and Sotaliraq, March 21, 2007

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