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               Islamic Captors Free American Journalist in Syria

   by VOA News

   Islamic rebels in Syria have freed an American journalist they have
   held since 2012, just days after another American reporter was
   beheaded.

   Kidnappers turned over Peter Theo Curtis to a United Nations
   representative Sunday, although the circumstances of his release were
   not immediately known.

   In a video that surfaced during his captivity, Curtis said he was a
   journalist from Boston, Massachusetts and was being well cared for.

   The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists said that Curtis was
   among about 20 journalists believed to be missing in Syria.

   U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praised the release of Curtis and
   said the United States is using its widespread diplomatic, military and
   intelligence contacts to free other Americans held hostage in Syria. He
   said he is relieved to know that Curtis is coming home after being held
   by Jabhat Al-Nusrah.

   Meanwhile, Britain said it is close to identifying a man, thought to be
   British, as the Islamic State fighter who beheaded American journalist
   James Foley as a protest against U.S. airstrikes against the militants
   in Iraq.

   The British ambassador to the United States, Peter Westmacott, told the
   CNN television news network that Britain is using "sophisticated
   technologies" and voice identification to track down the hooded killer
   shown in a video standing next to Foley before decapitating him.

   The Sunday Times newspaper reported British intelligence agencies have
   identified the jihadist, but its sources did not divulge his name.
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