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A Taliban fighter stands guard before the release ceremony of Bashir Noorzai, a senior Taliban detainee held in a U.S. prison, at the Intercontinental Hotel, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, September 19, 2022. Noorzai, a notorious drug lord and member of the Taliban, told reporters in Kabul on Monday that he spent 17 years and six months in a U.S. prison. Taliban-appointed Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said Monday that the released American, in what appears to have been part of a swap, was Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran and civilian contractor kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2020. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)
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