Posted on 06/01/2014 12:21:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
After five years as a POW, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is headed home. But the circumstances of his capture by the Taliban in Afghanistan remain unclear, indicating he may have walked away from his base.
For now, the story for US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is one of physical and mental recovery and reunion with his family.
But very soon it will involve debriefings about the nearly five years of his captivity by Taliban fighters, who apparently held him in Pakistan as well as Afghanistan, where his infantry unit had been engaged in combat.
Military and intelligence experts will want to know how he was treated, anything he can tell them about his captors, and what he learned about insurgent capabilities.
But for the young soldier – 23 when he became a prisoner of war, now 28 – those debriefings also will include difficult questions about how and why he happened to be in a position where he fell into the hands of Taliban fighters.
There have been no reports that he was captured during direct combat, that the “fog of war” had put him involuntarily in a vulnerable location.
At this point in the developing narrative, Sgt. Bergdahl seems to have grown disillusioned with the mission, bitter about the Army and especially higher ranking enlisted men and officers, and simply walked off – gone “outside the wire” or protective base limits – and disappeared.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
The prisoners were released in Qatar.
Qatar funded Al Qaeda.
Qatari Royal Family Linked to Al Qaeda 2006
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129838
Of course news was only reported when Bush was president.
Hmmmn.
An “official photo op” in front of the White Hose
And one Muslim sympathizer is wearing a tie.
And the other isn’t.
Yes. He was, at the bare minimum, AWOL.
Eisenhower and Patton would know what to do with a deserter like this. He was, at the bare minimum, AWOL.
Can’t wait.
Awesome program. Homeland and House of Cards are the way TV should be done.
It’s Sunday. Sleeping on and off.
In fact, headed to car wash to have my chariot cleaned and hopefully falling asleep again, when I return home.
These two have a real “Manson Family” kind of vibe.
If this guy is a deserter, and the evidence is strong that he just walked away, and it is not pursued by the military then morale will be shot.
I keep thinking there is more to this story..What do you all think of the far out idea that Bowe was OUR plant...that the CIA “let get captured”. I know that 6 men were KIA looking for him, but now I am getting so cynical I can see our govt let that go ahead .
I began thinking of this when I heard Bowe’s dad go on and on about all the different military and intelligence people the family kept talking to..that was an awfully big list of different govt groups!they may have been monitoring the family if Bowe was sending messages back.
The whole story about him wandering off base or getting drunk with some Afghans may have been all pre planned.
Fox has gone to increasingly commercial programming this spring, btw.
Sunday start get really good I think started with Sopranos in 1999
During winter months it Downton Abbey Homeland the Vikings this season
Love Vikings.
Also Banchee. That dude is bad azz and the weemen is hot.
Yes!
The muslim is a deserter and should be dealt accordingly.
Impeach the racist, commie muslim hussein!
Impeach him NOW!!
RE: The muslim is a deserter and should be dealt accordingly.
Bowe Bergdahl a Muslim? Now that’s new to me. How sure are you of that?
This post is all over the net. I have yet to see or hear anyone challenge it yet.
Good questions, crosslink!
Here’s another link, to the military news site.... many are p!$$3d off about this
http://newsmilitary.com/pages/27331621-military-community-reaction-mixed-to-bergdahl-release-army
Robert A. Cook, PE wrote:
“Hmmmn.
An “official photo op” in front of the White Hose
And one Muslim sympathizer is wearing a tie. And the other isn’t.”
A signal to someone?
Like the Muppet character Bert on bin ladens videos?
Good post, this 0 character is pushing the limits....
All y’all, ping to grand Jedi master yoda’s post!
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