The reporter,Stephen Farrell, told his newspaper he escaped during a fierce firefight between the commandos and his Taliban captors.

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You all remember the recent movie of a year or two ago about Troy with Colin Farrell about Alexander.

你们都还记得,最近一两年上映的一部电影中有提到特洛依城,由柯林，法洛饰演亚历山大大帝。

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Farrell was abducted while interviewing witnesses at the site of last week's NATO air strike on two hijacked fuel trucks.

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Farrell,who has dual British-Irish citizenship, had been kidnapped once previously while on assignment in Iraq.

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New York Times correspondent Stephen Farrell was freed unharmed by British commandos Wednesday.

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Farrell's Afghan colleague, Sultan Munadi, was killed during the operation, along with one of the commandos, and an Afghan woman and a child who were caught in the cross fire.

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