2 hikers released from Iranian prison return to US
By Associated Press
Sep 25, 2011 10:35 AM CDT
Freed Americans Shane Bauer, left, and Josh Fattal speak to reporters before leaving for the United States at the airport in Muscat, Oman, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. Two Americans freed from an Iranian prison told reporters Saturday they were "eager to go home" just before boarding their flight to the...   (Associated Press)

Two Americans released from an Iranian prison have landed in New York after being held for more than two years on accusations of spying.

Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer arrived in the U.S. on Sunday at Kennedy Airport.

The two were released from prison last week. They arrived Wednesday in Oman under a $1 million bail deal and were embraced by relatives. Also on hand was Sarah Shourd, their fellow hiker who was freed last year.

The three were detained in July 2009 along the Iran-Iraq border. They say they were only hiking in Iraq's relatively peaceful Kurdish region.

Since her release last year, Shourd has lived in Oakland, California. Bauer, a freelance journalist, grew up in Onamia, Minnesota, and Fattal, an environmental activist, is from a Philadelphia suburb.

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