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8 jailed American missionaries leave Haiti for US

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Eight American missionaries were freed from a Haitian jail and left for Miami Wednesday, nearly three weeks after being arrested trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country. Reporters watched the U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo plane carrying the group take off from the capital’s U.S. military-controlled airport, whose main terminal in shambles.