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American man held by the Taliban for more than 2 years has been released, U.S. State Department says

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George Glezmann , an airline mechanic from Atlanta , is the third American detainee to be released by the Taliban since January .

He was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist.

The U.S. government designated him as wrongfully detained the following year .

The release is part of what the Taliban has previously described as the “normalization” of ties between the two countries.

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