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Fundamental groups of closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds are freely indecomposable

I believe the following statement is true, and I've even seen it referenced here. Could someone point me to a proof?

The fundamental group of a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold is not a free product.

JeremyKun
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