Freed hostage Timothy Weeks never gave up hope during his 'long and tortuous' three years in captivity in Afghanistan
Freed hostage Timothy Weeks never gave up hope during his"long and tortuous" three years in captivity in Afghanistan.
Flanked by his sisters Jo and Alyssa Carter, he said he had been changed completely by the experience."The time that I spent as a hostage with the Taliban has had a profound and unimaginable effect on me," he said. Afghan security personnel arrive at the site of suicide attack in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, during recent bloodshed.He and US colleague Kevin King were freed from custody in Afghanistan in November after being grabbed outside Kabul's American University in 2016.
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