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QUETTA – The Taliban have kidnapped and threatened to kill a Canadian journalist in the Afghan border town of Spin Boldak, a colleague said on Tuesday. Freelance journalist Ken Hetchman is being kept in a small cell bound hand and foot, Jonathan Steele of Britain’s Guardian newspaper told AFP. A local Pashtun man handed Steele one of Hetchman’s business cards with an appeal for help on Tuesday. Ends