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 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A French aid worker tearfully thanked the Taliban for releasing her Saturday after more than three weeks in captivity, and pleaded for the freedom of four colleagues still held in southern Afghanistan.
The woman — so far identified only by her first name, Celine — was kidnapped in southwestern Nimroz province on April 3 with a French co-worker identified as Eric and three Afghan colleagues who worked for the charity Terre d'Enfance.
"I want to ask them to have pity in the name of their God," she said at the French embassy in Kabul, her voice shaking and barely audible at times. "Eric came like me, to Afghanistan as a friend. Hashim, Rasul and Azrat are Afghans. They are Muslims. They are their brothers. They have children waiting for them."
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