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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - A German held hostage in Afghanistan since last month said in a telephone conversation orchestrated by his captors Monday that he was ill and the militants had threatened him with death.
The man identified himself to The Associated Press as Rudolf Blechschmidt and asked that the message be delivered to the German embassy and to his son, Markus. He spoke stiffly and with frequent pauses, as though reading from prepared remarks.
The telephone call came about when the hostage takers phoned an Associated Press reporter Monday and unexpectedly put Blechschmidt on the line.
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