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The Taliban claim that France had not paid much attention to their demands for securing the release of two French journalists held captive for more than a year.Herve Ghesquiere and Stephane Taponier, a reporter and a cameraman working for France 3, were kidnapped with three Afghan colleagues in December last year. We presented our conditions and demands even one year ago to the French government and they are very simple and easy conditions but unfortunately they have not paid much attention to our conditions and the rights of their citizens, a Taliban spokesman told. The French journalists were travelling without a military escort in an area northwest of Kabul.
