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Taliban Display U.S. Captive
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 12-26-09 | ANAND GOPAL

Posted on 12/25/2009 4:50:46 PM PST by GOP_Lady

KABUL -- The Taliban distributed a new video Friday of a U.S. soldier who was captured this summer in Afghanistan, with an offer to release him in a prisoner exchange.

A spokesman for the international forces here denounced the video, but declined to comment on the possibility of an exchange or on efforts to rescue the captive.

Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, an airborne infantryman from Ketchum, Idaho, was seized by Taliban-aligned militants on June 30. The military says he is the only American soldier who has been captured by insurgent forces during the war here.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Idaho; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bergdahl; hostages; taliban; videotape; wot
 
Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl
1 posted on 12/25/2009 4:50:49 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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2 posted on 12/25/2009 4:51:17 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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Dear God, I feel so terrible for his family. I pray we are able to bring this boy to freedom soon.


3 posted on 12/25/2009 5:01:28 PM PST by ohiogrammy (12)
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Indeed. Prayers for Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl.


4 posted on 12/25/2009 5:02:51 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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This is the soldier who walked out of his base with his new “Afgan friends” after they had been drinking something I believe.


5 posted on 12/25/2009 5:12:01 PM PST by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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Wait, I thought it was against Geneva conventions to parade a captured soldier on video?


6 posted on 12/25/2009 5:12:38 PM PST by Fan of Fiat
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I’m sure Obama will soon negotiate with the terrorists and offer to hold PFC Bergdahl at Gitmo for them.


7 posted on 12/25/2009 5:24:58 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (I'd rather be an AGW denier than a dumbass Watermelon)
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We’ll be praying. Obama is probably surfing.


8 posted on 12/25/2009 5:37:23 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Gone Galt)
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Every hour he is not set free. Bomb a Mosque.


9 posted on 12/25/2009 6:04:58 PM PST by screaminsunshine (!!)
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Every hour he is not set free. Bomb a Mosque.

Bomb two. One in Afghanistan and one here.

10 posted on 12/25/2009 7:48:07 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot

OK Two. Hey how long would the terroism last??


11 posted on 12/26/2009 2:29:31 AM PST by screaminsunshine (!!)
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Two days, three hours and 24 seconds.

Don’t ask me how I got that number. I used one of my global warming models and that is what it says.

Burn this email immediately.


12 posted on 12/26/2009 3:29:10 AM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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