Reporters recount captivity

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KABUL - An Afghan journalist held by Taliban militants with a New York Times reporter said he was beaten and repeatedly threatened by captors whose demands kept changing during their seven-month ordeal.

After being abducted, Afghan reporter Tahir Ludin and Times colleague David Rohde were driven across Afghanistan with little water and in constant fear for their lives, Ludin said. The journalists and their driver were seized south of the capital Nov. 10 while en route to interview a Taliban leader.

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Reporters recount captivity

"Around 100 meters (yards) after the town of Baraki Rajan district one vehicle stopped and there were armed men inside. They pointed their guns to us and said, 'Don't move, you are under arrest.' So we had n...

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