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New York City - NY Times Reporter Who Escaped Taliban Returns to Thunderous Applause

Jul 02, 2009 at 11:44 AM

New York City - After seven months of being held hostage by the Taliban, David Rohde returned to The New York Times on Wednesday and to perhaps the most sustained ovation ever heard in the paper’s newsroom. Mr. Rohde, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, escaped from his captors two weeks ago, along with Tahir Ludin, an Afghan reporter who had served as his translator and escort. In an...

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