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The slender American woman in the black abaya looks directly at the camera, her two children, their faces caked with dirt, sitting just to her left.
“Today is December 3, 2016. We have waited since 2012 for someone to understand our problems, the Kafkaesque nightmare in which we find ourselves,” she says in the video released by her captors in Afghanistan late last year. “My children have seen their mother defiled. We ask, in our collective 14th year of prison, that the governments on both sides reach some agreement to allow us freedom.” Then, aiming her words squarely at President Obama, she adds one more message. “Your legacy on leaving us is probably important to you as our lives and those ...
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