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Afghan hostage couple decry 'Kafkaesque nightmare'(went a camping trip in Afghanistan)
BBC ^ | BBC

Posted on 12/20/2016 9:49:03 AM PST by Dallas59



An Afghan insurgent group has released video of a kidnapped North American couple, featuring two children apparently born to them in captivity.

The footage from the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network shows Canadian Joshua Boyle and American Caitlan Coleman with two young boys, who appeared healthy.

In the clip Ms Coleman begs for an end to their "Kafkaesque nightmare".

The couple were abducted in Afghanistan in 2012 during a camping trip, while she was pregnant.

The insurgent group is demanding the release of three of its prisoners in Afghanistan.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; camping; idiocy; islam; playstupidgames; winstupidprizes
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To: Dallas59

The problem with making a stink about these hostages is that it will only encourage other idiots. A camping trip to Afghanistan while seven months pregnant is the height of lunacy. It’s like visiting North Korea; who in their right mind does it ?


21 posted on 12/20/2016 10:03:22 AM PST by Timocrat (Ingnorantia non excusat)
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To: Dallas59

I’m going to go out on a limb here:

1) Don’t go to a Muslim country
2) Don’t go to a Muslim country that’s been at war with the U.S.
3) Don’t go halfway around the world to a hellhole when you’re pregnant


22 posted on 12/20/2016 10:03:47 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Dallas59

Like, Im’a take my pregnant American wife camping in Afghanistan

Said. No. Sane. Person. Ever.

I assume his Tolleybon beard is from before they departed


23 posted on 12/20/2016 10:05:32 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Dallas59

Give ‘em the Sergeant Bergdahl Medal.


24 posted on 12/20/2016 10:05:40 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Dallas59

Sure, they Taliban are a threat, but on the bright side, all the food in Afghanistan is naturally organic!


25 posted on 12/20/2016 10:06:38 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Grimmy

Good idea. I love it when a problem solves itself!


26 posted on 12/20/2016 10:06:41 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: rey
Mrs WBill had a roommate in college that was going, by herself, to Iraq (Iran? can't remember...) to "Save the Children".

Not as a part of a program, or a charity. No invite. Didn't know anyone local, not a part of anything bigger like the Peace Corps. And, she was a college student, so she had no money to speak of. She just would land in country and start "saving kids", somehow.

My lovely, and far more sensible wife helped talk her out of it.

27 posted on 12/20/2016 10:08:08 AM PST by wbill
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To: Dallas59
Back in the 70s Afghanistan was a big backpacker-hippie tourist destination, famous for hospitality and drugs. I knew lots of Canadians who went there—perhaps this young couple knew one or more of them and failed to acknowledge how much times have changed.
28 posted on 12/20/2016 10:09:00 AM PST by binreadin
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To: Dallas59

Idiots. Fools. Leave them where they are.


29 posted on 12/20/2016 10:11:39 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Red Badger

Jesse Pinkman !?!

30 posted on 12/20/2016 10:12:10 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: rey
I know someone who went “Clubbing” in Iran.

So did they get clubbed? Seems like an unusual hobby to seek out a clubbing, but to each his own...

31 posted on 12/20/2016 10:18:59 AM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Dallas59

Well, that’s one way to lose weight.

Too bad for the children they have such morons for parents.


32 posted on 12/20/2016 10:21:53 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Red Badger

A self absorbed intellectual libtard.


33 posted on 12/20/2016 10:23:53 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Dallas59

Did they make s’mores?


34 posted on 12/20/2016 10:24:30 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Lurkinanloomin

It’s not about hiking. It’s about bragging to their liberal friends. Too bad they had to put the children’s lives at risk.


35 posted on 12/20/2016 10:28:57 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: CMB_polarization

not only idiots, but do they really really look like two people that hiked?.....both carrying a lot of extra weight....


36 posted on 12/20/2016 10:29:40 AM PST by cherry
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To: Dallas59

Before

After

Any questions?

37 posted on 12/20/2016 10:30:11 AM PST by COBOL2Java (1 Tim 2:1-3)
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To: Axenolith

They look like they absorbed a lot of themselves.............


38 posted on 12/20/2016 10:32:08 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: rey; El Cid; Dallas59

They have baby seals in Iran?...................


39 posted on 12/20/2016 10:34:43 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Dallas59

Why not just take at trip to Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis or some where in Minnesota?
Coincidence or irony, all Liberal controlled.


40 posted on 12/20/2016 10:35:56 AM PST by GOYAKLA ( "Suck it up Buttercup"; Pick-up the pace, I'm eighty-one!)
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