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Freed US soldier celebrated Xmas, played badminton with captors
yahoo.com ^ | 6/1/14 | Hasbanullah Khan/ afp

Posted on 06/02/2014 7:22:36 AM PDT by ColdOne

Miranshah (Pakistan) (AFP) - Freed US soldier Bowe Bergdahl developed a love for Afghan green tea, taught his captors badminton, and even celebrated Christmas and Easter with the hardline Islamists, a Pakistani militant commander told AFP Sunday.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; awol; bergdahl; bowebergdahl; bowewowe; deserter
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1 posted on 06/02/2014 7:22:37 AM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

A lot of them shared their “scratch ticket” lotto winnings with him too!!! LOL! What a load. A real 60s style love in.


2 posted on 06/02/2014 7:25:05 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: ColdOne

I’ve got to go to the doctor about my rear. It is getting chapped from all the smoke that the administration has been trying to blow up it in the few days over this idiot.


3 posted on 06/02/2014 7:25:37 AM PDT by Portcall24 (aer)
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To: ColdOne

X mas is right.


4 posted on 06/02/2014 7:26:58 AM PDT by cyn (Benghazi)
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To: ColdOne
Their captors also said he gave up plenty of actionable intelligence.

I really hope they want to rub it in be releasing some incriminating video.

5 posted on 06/02/2014 7:27:20 AM PDT by AU72
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6 posted on 06/02/2014 7:27:40 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: ColdOne

This piece is PURE propaganda. Not a word of truth in it.


7 posted on 06/02/2014 7:28:17 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: ColdOne

Hardline Islamists celebrate Christmas and Easter?


8 posted on 06/02/2014 7:29:04 AM PDT by redhawk.44mag (The problem with the world today, is that it wants to be digital, but it's really analog)
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To: cyn

Not God blessAmerica,but God damn America Oh,wait wrong scumbag!


9 posted on 06/02/2014 7:30:17 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: ColdOne

He celebrated Christmas with Islamists? Really? I find that hard to believe.


10 posted on 06/02/2014 7:32:48 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (et)
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To: ColdOne

Well, I guess Islam isn’t so bad after all. /s


11 posted on 06/02/2014 7:35:01 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: ColdOne

Well, I’m sure that made his Kumbaya Papa proud. It certainly beats being beheaded or stoned as real Christians are.


12 posted on 06/02/2014 7:35:34 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Dilbert San Diego
He celebrated Christmas with Islamists?

Yep, and Hanukkah too!

13 posted on 06/02/2014 7:35:40 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: FlingWingFlyer; Dr. Ursus; WashingtonSource
from the article:

Imtiaz Gul, a security analyst, said the militants would have regarded Bergdahl as a high-value asset and harming him would have had a negative impact on their propaganda efforts.

Who is this guy? What on earth would make this scrawny deserter a high-value asset? especially once he spilled his guts?

"security analyst"

14 posted on 06/02/2014 7:37:25 AM PDT by cyn (Benghazi)
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To: ColdOne

Something’s fishy about all of this. Call me cynical but are you telling me the Taliban showed mercy towards an American soldier? Don’t you think they would have savored the opportunity to torture and slaughter this guy, or am I misreading the whole thing? Or maybe they know enough of our political leadership or lack of it that they knew they could use Bergdahl as a bargaining chip on Gitmo.


15 posted on 06/02/2014 7:38:26 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: ColdOne

He was a deserter and empathized with the Taliban more than his country. He ought to be in a cell in the same prison as Johnny “Taliban” Walker Lindh.


16 posted on 06/02/2014 7:39:51 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: ColdOne

badminton is gay


17 posted on 06/02/2014 7:40:53 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: redhawk.44mag

Exactly!!! WTF?

and Badminton?? This sounds more like a Monty Python skit.

This stings to high heaven, good luck spinning this one.
And as for the inevitable “ we can’t comment because of the ongoing investigation…”, unfortunately for obama, we have the guys that were there first hand speaking out.

Good luck Media destroying the creditability of several platoons of good men.


18 posted on 06/02/2014 7:43:30 AM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: ColdOne

“....even celebrated Christmas and Easter with the hardline Islamists....”

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Next thing we’ll hear that he converted all of them singlehandedly by his devotion to Christianity.

Yeah, riiiiiight!

(Where is that bridge I’ve always tried to sell?)


19 posted on 06/02/2014 7:44:26 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yeah, they probably all shared a nice ham.


20 posted on 06/02/2014 7:44:51 AM PDT by NEMDF
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