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Freed Taliban hostages escape bill

This content was published on Jul 22, 2012 The 32-year-old man and his partner, 29, both from Bern, managed to escape the clutches of their captors in a dramatic escape in March. On returning home, the couple faced a SFr10,000 ($10,070) bill from the foreign ministry that had spent months negotiating with the Taliban and then arranged their safe passage back to Switzerland.…