Taliban threatens to kill U.S. soldier held hostage in Afghanistan

DailyMail UK ^ | July 16, 2009

[rightwingintelligentsia]

A Taliban commander in southeastern Afghanistan today said that a captured U.S. soldier was being held unharmed by insurgents, but warned he would be killed if efforts were made to find him.

The soldier has been missing in Paktika province since late June, just before thousands of U.S. Marines began a major new offensive. The U.S. military has said he was presumed captured.

Taliban commander Mawlavi Sangin said the group's leadership would decide the soldier's fate, but accused U.S. soldiers of harassing and arresting Afghans in Paktika and neighbouring Ghazni province.

'They have put pressure on the people in these two provinces and if that does not stop we will kill him,' said Sangin, the Taliban commander for Paktika province. He said the soldier was captured in an area bordering Pakistan.

Earlier this month it was reported that the American soldier was captured and sold to a militant clan. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the capture of the soldier, with a commander saying he had been drunk when he was captured.

[fso301]

Actually, American media have reported on it but not like they would have 12 months ago.

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[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Better keep checking on FR to see what happens, cuz the mainstream media sure won’t tell us while the Messiah, who bowed down in submission to jihadis, is in office.

[bgill]

This is the first I have heard of a US soldier having been captured in Afghanistan. Odd that I learn of it from a British paper.

Same here. Prayers for him.

If Maj. Cook's suit does get a hearing this might be all our enemies will be waiting for. Not that the Taliban ever followed the Geneva Convention but it's just something else Hussein is setting out to destroy.

[jesseam]

In Iraq I was told informally to save the last round for yourself.

[fso301]

Apparently, the soldier may have wandered off post alone.

[ma bell]

Where are the days that we (as I am currently still serving) did not make statements? I guess EA Sports, Wii, Nintendo and those games have a thing to do with it, softening them mentally. Man oh man! I'm ashamed for him and his family.

The least he could do is morse code with his eyes a simple message..but they don't teach that to the soldiers nowadays. While Active Marines back in the late 80s, we knew morse code.

[ma bell]

I thought he was a Marine....not a soldier. I know its a “generic” statement. But I would never call a Marine a soldier to their face.

You are damn straight on target with that! I did my 4 years Marine Corps now am Army Reserves, I cringe when called a soldier, though there is nothing wrong in being a soldier, I like it, but not the same hardcorps.