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This is an unclassified, For Official Use Only news compilation produced by the US Embassy Kabul Public Affairs Office and distributed by the Open Source Center on 15 August 2015. It was later approved for release by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2018. It gathers Afghan, Pakistani and international press reports on an anti-Pakistan protest in Washington, China's support for Afghan peace talks, the combat debut of Afghan MD-530 helicopters, hostage releases in Ghazni and unemployment in Kunduz. It contains nothing about UFOs.
‘ 1 _ - . print Mcssagqs) g Approved for Release: 2018/09/04006708887 ~ __ * page [3 of49 _ _ v .., _ . . ‘~ . _ I ~ . . ' - " I , g. . -_ uwcmsslrlsn/rsesti. Q . A ~ any involvement in the abduction of the people. He said Taliban had also started investigations‘to find who_had-kidnapped them. Armed militants kidnapped four residents of the district and later they were brutally killed and left their bodies on the scene in Asfandi area last week.. f . ‘ - nttp://www.paf¢wck.cénfcn/Qflib/C8/T5/kidnappcc—cay—carlior—JC— irzdivid _ _, . A A ' uals—freed— ‘ t - ghazni - T Return to Table of Contents _ Ghazni Hostages Released - TOLOnews 15 August 2015 " - " ~ - ~ V The remaining ten_passengers out of 17 who were abducted in central Ghazni province last week were released on Friday evening, local officials said on Saturday. _| - ' _ . . _ . v1 . . The passengers were abducted in Qarabagh and Jaghori district on Tuesday. Seven of them were released on Wednesday after tribal elders . - , ~ . . negotiated with the hostage—takers. Ten others were released on Friday evening, a member of.Provincial Council of Ghazni, Hassan Reza' - ~' ' , Iv _.: - ‘ ‘ Yousufi said. ‘ T 0 v. _" l ' V ' 4 T \_ "All the passengers were released and have joined their families in Jaghori," he said. g. y ' __‘. ._ V Earlier, Yousufi warned "if the government does not send troops in to y ‘ . . secure the highways of the districts, the highways will become more insecure." - f -,- i * ’ - Kidnapping cases_have increased substantially in the country in recent months, especially on provincial highways. 0 In February, armed gunmen kidnapped 31 bus passengers in Zabul. After _ 3_ . Y‘ ' t A months of negotiations 19 were released in a reported prisoner swap. g A " ‘ __ _‘ ." _ - UNCLASSIFIED/7"F9U-O l '. A _ " ' ‘I ' ' 8/23/2017 Approved for Release: 2018/09/04 C06708887
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 49 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.