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NYT Reporter Rescued From Taliban

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KABUL (Sept. 9) - British commandos freed a New York Times reporter in an early Wednesday raid on a Taliban hide-out in northern Afghanistan. The journalist's Afghan translator and one of the troops were killed in the rescue, officials said.
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New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell, who was taken hostage by the Taliban while covering a story in the northern province of Kunduz on Saturday, is freed in a daring raid carried out by U.K. commandos. The rescue mission proves deadly for two people involved -- a translator employed by the paper and one British soldier.