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‘We just know we want our brother home’: Inside the secretive world of freeing American hostages abroad

Kim Hjelmgaard, Josh Meyer and Maureen Groppe, USA TODAYComments Off on ‘We just know we want our brother home’: Inside the secretive world of freeing American hostages abroad

The Brittney Griner-Viktor Bout prisoner exchange highlighted the secret, chaotic, divisive and sometimes weird world of global prisoner negotiation.

      
Kim Hjelmgaard, Josh Meyer and Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY
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