Rescued German aid workers (L-R) Georg Taubmann, Silke Durrkopf, Margrit Stebner and Katrin Jelinek talk to journalists at a Press conference inside the German Embassy residence in Islamabad on November 15, 2001. Eight foreign aid workers, including the four Germans, two Australians and two Americans were rescued from the Taliban when US helicopters swooped at night into a field in central Afghanistan and lifted them to freedom. —REUTERS