Bergdahl says he was tortured by Taliban captors

AP ^ | 6/8/2014 | Lolita C. Baldor

[mojito]

U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has told people treating him at an American military medical facility in Germany that he was tortured, beaten and held in a cage by his Taliban captors in Afghanistan after he tried to escape, a senior U.S. official said Sunday.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss what Bergdahl has revealed about the conditions of his captivity. The New York Times first reported on the matter.

The official said it was difficult to verify the accounts Bergdahl has given since his release a week ago.

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Military doctors at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center say that while Bergdahl is physically able to travel he's not yet emotionally prepared to be reunited with his family. He has not yet spoken to his family.

[MeshugeMikey]

we have not yet heard Little Bowe Peep/

[Nifster]

Oh goody now we get the drip by drip by drip of the so called horrors that poor little Bowe went through......Anonymous sources all without the guts or nada to give their names.

I believe NOTHING that this admin says about anything

[leapfrog0202]

There was criteria that he couldn’t meet. It was pretty simple stuff. So I think the trip was a “door” to the Taliban.

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I think so too. As for how he got to France, who knows? Daddy? Seems the parents aren’t too hard up for money.

[leapfrog0202]

You’re welcome.

[leapfrog0202]

Doctors say.bowe is physically able to travel.

I thought rice said he was at death’s door.

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I read yesterday that he’s 5’ 9” and 160 pounds. Doesn’t sound like someone who was at death’s door either. IMO every word out of Rice’s and Obama’s mouths are lies.

[Sacajaweau]

Maybe they got a split.

[Sacajaweau]

Give him some porkchops and apple sauce and see what he does.

[Veto!]

He’s lucky they did not chop off his head.

Which makes me wonder what else they might have chopped.

[Cementjungle]

Mark my words, this is going to backfire BIG time on the GOP and Conservatives for not taking a wait and see attitude. BIG time.

Wait for what? Did the guy walking to the helicopter appear to you to be in poor physical shape? Do you think all his platoon-mates are lying (why?)? Why is the US government breaking from tradition and not letting this guy see family or even speak to reporters?

[Texan5]

Haha! I’d forgotten about Rosalind wanting him airlocked...

[Veto!]

Yes, the overarching question has to be, Why did he join the Army? To desert? To go over to the Taliban? Or is this a carefully plotted scenario to get prisoners out of Guantanamo? Or?

[blueunicorn6]

He should have reported his torturers to his Haqqani chain of command.

[TigersEye]

Do stupid things win stupid prizes.

[Telepathic Intruder]

She didn’t even want a trial. LOL.

[Texan5]

Well, it isn’t one of their best, but it is catchy...

[wildbill]

That’s very unfortunate. If he had stayed with his brothers in arms he probably wouldn’t have been tortured at all.

[Texan5]

I was kind of hoping she’d get her way-I thought the guy was pretty reprehensible when he just thought he’d been having an affair with an industrial spy.

I’ve forgotten the name of the guy who was executed for what he did...

[Texan5]

Maybe he just thought he was joining that other Army-the one with the condos?

[lonevoice]

This guy is so delusional that he probably figured the Talban would allow him to wander around like the U.S. Army did!

Something like that, I'd guess. His pajama boy sense of entitlement for being a special snowflake probably made him think the Taliban would loooove him, treat him like a brother, give him special privileges. If he thought his living conditions with the US military were so awful, I can only imagine what he thought of the living conditions of the Jihadis. The Jihadis probably beat him and put him in a cage just to stop his constant whining and snot-nosed blubbering.