How I Gave The Taliban The Slip

How I Gave The Taliban The Slip
French photographer, Pierre Borghi, 29, smiles as he poses for a portrait at the French embassy in Kabul on April 12, 2013, after he was freed on Sunday after four months in captivity, one of two French hostages released in recent days. Borghi worked in Afghanistan from 2011 to 2012 for French charity Solidarites International and returned to Kabul last year to take photographs and try to establish himself as a photographer. French officials have not confirmed how he was freed. AFP PHOTO / Massoud HOSSAINI (Photo credit should read MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images)
French photographer, Pierre Borghi, 29, smiles as he poses for a portrait at the French embassy in Kabul on April 12, 2013, after he was freed on Sunday after four months in captivity, one of two French hostages released in recent days. Borghi worked in Afghanistan from 2011 to 2012 for French charity Solidarites International and returned to Kabul last year to take photographs and try to establish himself as a photographer. French officials have not confirmed how he was freed. AFP PHOTO / Massoud HOSSAINI (Photo credit should read MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images)

French aid worker and amateur photographer Pierre Borghi spent four months in shackles, imprisoned by the Taliban in a hole in the ground. But an opportunity to escape eventually came his way, thanks in part to the weight he had lost on the "Taliban diet".

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