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Al-Jazeera broadcasts tape of German hostage in Afghanistan


Published : Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:06
By : Agencies
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DUBAI (Thomson Financial) - A German engineer, held hostage in Afghanistan for nearly two weeks, pleaded for his life in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera television on Tuesday.

The man, standing in a rocky clearing with several men pointing guns at him, called on Germany and the United States to pull their troops out of Afghanistan so that his his life could be spared, a news reader said.

tf.TFN-Europe_newsdesk@thomson.com

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