Hotelier 'helped free Annetta'

A British hotelier said he had been detained over the kidnapping of three UN election workers - including Armagh woman Annetta Flanigan - in Afghanistan and claimed to have helped negotiate their release from Taliban-linked militants.

Peter Jouvenal, a former journalist who owns a guesthouse in Kabul, said Afghan authorities questioned him about the abduction of the three foreigners, who were freed on Tuesday in mysterious circumstances after being held for 27 days.