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(19,429 posts) Thu May 2, 2013, 01:13 PM May 2013

Taliban 'Slim-Fast diet’ allows French hostage to escape

Pierre Borghi, who was kidnapped in Afghanistan in November last year and held captive for 131 days, escaped after losing 12 kilograms, allowing him to slip out of his chains and through a narrow window to freedom.

http://www.france24.com/en/20130502-french-hostage-pierre-borghi-escape-taliban-afghanistan