A New York Times reporter is free after more than seven months in captivity in Afghanistan and the newspaper says he and an Afghan reporter escaped from the militants holding them by climbing over a wall.
David Rohde and Afghan reporter Tahir Ludin climbed over the wall of a compound in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan, where they were being held captive. The Times says a Pakistani army scout led them to a nearby base, where the two were flown to the U.S. base at Bagram in Afghanistan on Saturday.
Rohde, 41, traveled to Kabul in early November to work on a book about the history of American involvement in Afghanistan. He was taken by militants on Nov. 10 in Logar, one province south of Kabul.
