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Russian presidential hopeful Rybkin says he was drugged and kidnapped

Russia's presidential hopeful Ivan Rybkin, who mysteriously disappeared for five days, said Friday that he was drugged, kidnapped and kept unconscious by captors who had lured him to Ukraine.

Rybkin, who said the incident involved a murky attempt involving a video tape to "compromise" him, also announced he would not withdraw from the March 14 Russian elections and told a London press conference he would conduct his campaign from Western Europe.

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Some ex-prisoners (released from Guantanamo) rejoined terror cells


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1077583/posts

Terrorists freed from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay have rejoined Taliban and al-Qaida cells in Afghanistan, sources said late Thursday.

Pentagon officials have refused to discuss one reported case of a Taliban commander, Mullah Shehzada, who rejoined comrades in Afghanistan after his October release from the Guantánamo, Cuba prison.

Shehzada convinced his interrogators he was an innocent civilian captured by Northern Alliance troops and turned over to the United States, Time magazine reported last year.

Rumsfeld also is expected to reveal that detainees have provided intelligence about human smuggling rings in Latin America aimed at sneaking al-Qaida members into the United States.