Freed Japanese journalist says kidnappers not Taliban

Freed Japanese journalist says kidnappers not Taliban

TOKYO, Japan - Freelance journalist Kosuke Tsuneoka, who was released on Sept. 4 by his kidnappers in Afghanistan, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Sept. 6, 2010, after arriving in Japan the same day. Through messages posted on his Twitter account, Tsuneoka denied his abductors were Taliban insurgents as claimed by Afghan security authorities. (Kyodo)

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