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An American woman, her Canadian husband and their three young children have been released after years held captive by a network with ties to the Taliban. 

Caitlan Coleman, and her husband, Canadian Joshua Boyle, were abducted five years ago while traveling in Afghanistan. Coleman was pregnant when she was captured and the couple had three children while in captivity.

The U.S. sent a C-130 transport plane to Pakistan to get the family out of the country, but Boyle declined to board, a White House official tells CBS News. Boyle's family called him and tried to persuade him to board the plane but were unsuccessful.

The couple set off in the summer 2012 for a journey that took them to Russia, the central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and then to Afghanistan.  

Boyle had a self-described intrigue over terrorism. “  He also developed an interest in Omar Khadr, a Canadian captured in Afghanistan who was held at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 to 2012. He married Khadr's sister in 2009. Strange story...