Kidnapped NY Times reporter escapes from Taliban: paper (AFP)

[Yahoo! News]

AFP - A New York Times reporter kidnapped last November by the Taliban and held in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan has escaped to freedom, the newspaper reported Saturday on its website.

David Rohde and a local reporter, who were abducted outside of Kabul along with their driver, "just walked over the wall of the compound" where they were being held captive in Pakistan's remote North Waziristan region, Rohde's wife Kristen Mulvihill told the Times after speaking with her husband.

Rohde and the Afghani journalist, Tahir Ludin, made their daring escape Friday night and managed to find a Pakistani army scout who escorted them to a nearby army base. They were flown to a US air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, the newspaper reported.

Their driver did not escape with them.

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