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REPORTED KIDNAP VICTIM: Alabama Man Surfaces in Pakistan
Friday, January 18, 2002
By Mark Niesse
The Associated Press

Staff writer Maurice Tamman and Associated Press diplomatic writer Barry Schweid contributed to this article.



MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- AP
An Alabama man who said he was kidnapped by a tribal warlord in Afghanistan and held for $25,000 ransom has been released after 10 days of frequent torture, his wife said Friday.

Clark Bowers’ wife, Amanda, said he called Friday morning from Pakistan and told her of being tortured by his captors. She didn’t say if any ransom had been paid.

“He did suffer some torture, and that has taken some of the joy,” she told reporters at her home in Harvest, about 20 miles west of Huntsville. “But he is in a safe location. He needs peace.”

In Birmingham, FBI spokesman Craig Dahle said the agency had confirmed Bowers is in Karachi.

“We’re still trying to hook up with him,” he said. “That hopefully will happen in the near future.”
(More: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution News Source)
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