[maggief]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2648208/Taliban-releases-video-showing-U-S-deserter-Bowe-Bergdahl-handed-US-forces-armed-guards-holding-white-flags.html

[maggief]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-defends-decision-to-trade-5-guantanamo-detainees-for-bergdahl/2014/06/03/759151a8-eb10-11e3-b98c-72cef4a00499_story.html “We have consulted with Congress for quite some time about the possibility that we might need to execute a prisoner exchange in order to recover Bergdahl,” Obama said on a trip to Poland to discuss Eastern European security. “We saw an opportunity, and we were concerned about Bergdahl’s health. We had the cooperation of the Qataris to execute an exchange, and we seized that opportunity.” He added that “the process was truncated because we wanted to make sure we would not miss that window.”

[Blue Highway]

He looks like he is about to cry and not tears of joy, but of sadness that he is leaving the Taliban and Afghanistan, a place he calls HOME.