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(9 Nov 2008)
1. Wide of Sayeed Ansari NDS (National Directorate of Security) spokesman walking in to news conference
2. Mid of assembled media
3. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Sayeed Ansari, NDS spokesman
"At 20:00 last night (15:30 GMT) Afghan NDS personal was able to rescue Canadian journalist Mellissa Fung who was working for CBC."
4. Cutaway cameraman
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Sayeed Ansari, NDS spokesman:
"Three men who were involved in the second hand of this kidnapping have been arrested, our personal have found the ID of three others who were the main kidnappers, and the operation is on going to arrest them."
6. Mid of assembled media
7. Mid of Ansari leaving the conference room
STORYLINE:
A Canadian TV journalist abducted and held for four weeks in Afghanistan was freed on Saturday after Afghan tribal leaders persuaded the kidnappers to release her, officials said.
A spokesman for the National Directorate of Security said that arrests had been made since Mellissa Fung, a reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's release.
Fung had been taken out of Kabul by her captors and held in a dangerous Taliban-controlled region of Wardak province, one province west of Kabul.
She was freed after tribal elders and provincial council members negotiated her release, said a spokesman for the provincial governor in Wardak.
The provincial governor said there was no ransom involved.
Fung on Sunday said she was held in a small underground cave that she could barely stand in.
Fung was on her second tour as a correspondent for CBC in Afghanistan.
She had been in Kabul for nearly a month researching a story about the refugee situation in and around Kabul.
She is the second abducted foreign journalist to be released in two days.
On Friday, a Dutch journalist kidnapped just outside of the capital, Kabul, was freed unharmed after nearly a week in captivity.
Security has deteriorated around Afghanistan over the last two years, although violence against Westerners in the capital has been relatively rare until recently.
But Kabul has seen a spike in crimes against Westerners in the last several weeks.
A dual citizen South African-British aid worker was shot and killed by Taliban gunmen in a Kabul neighbourhood last month, and a French aid worker was kidnapped at gunpoint in Kabul this past week.

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