Jimmy Carter wins release of American held prisoner in communist country
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Posted: 08/27/2010
North Korea has agreed to release an American jailed in the communist country since January.
Former President Jimmy Carter worked to negotiate the release of Aijalon Gomes. Carter and Gomes are expected to return to the U.S. by Friday afternoon.
Gomes had been sentenced to eight years of hard labor in a North Korean prison for entering the country illegally from China.
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