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Koreans Talk About Ordeal

By Polly Davis Doig, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 31, 2007 12:10 PM CDT

(Newser) – "All I could think about was staying alive," said one of the South Korean aid workers released from captivity in Afghanistan yesterday. “Now that the tension is gone my body aches all over.” The group reunited in a Kabul hotel today... Read full story »

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