Taliban Releases New Video of US, Australian Hostages
Timothy Weeks of Australia, left and American Kevin King (photo taken from video sent to VOA from Taliban)
ISLAMABAD —
Afghanistan’s Taliban released a new video Wednesday showing two professors, one American and one Australian, urging U.S. President Donald Trump to negotiate their freedom with the Islamist insurgent group.
Sixty-year-old American Kevin King and 48-year-old Timothy Weeks of Australia, teachers with the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, were kidnapped at gunpoint near the campus last August.
The Taliban wants freedom for its “soldiers” being held at the U.S.-run Bagram airbase and the Afghan prison called Pul-e-Charkhi in return for freeing the two professors, the hostages said in their video messages.
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"photo taken from video sent to VOA from Taliban" Taliban actually sent this to VOA? Curious.
Anyway, another heartbreaking story per a conflict that is going on world wide, where is it not? Maybe Greenland, Japan,
SE Asia Viet Nam and a few other places. Most of South America.
And it is mainly Salafist violence vs. what the Iranians do. That's not to put the Shiites on a pedestal; Iran, Syria, Hezbollah give Israel a lot of hell.
