Not only that, but the trade made to secure his release certainly seems.....asymmetric?? http://thehill.com/policy/defense/207930-graham-obama-released-taliban-dream-team?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > This is interesting reading.... I have not seen it reported like this > by US Central Media. > > > http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/02/we-lost-soldiers-in-the-hunt-for-bergdahl-a-guy-who-walked-off-in-the-dead-of-night.html > > It was June 30, 2009, and I was in the city of Sharana, the capitol of > Paktika province in Afghanistan. As I stepped out of a decrepit office > building into a perfect sunny day, a member of my team started talking > into his radio. “Say that again,” he said. “There’s an American > soldier missing?” > > There was. His name was Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl, the only > prisoner of war in the Afghan theater of operations. His release from > Taliban custody on May 31 marks the end of a nearly five-year-old > story for the soldiers of his unit, the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute > Infantry Regiment. I served in the same battalion in Afghanistan and > participated in the attempts to retrieve him throughout the summer of > 2000. After we redeployed, every member of my brigade combat team > received an order that we were not allowed to discuss what happened to > Bergdahl for fear of endangering him. He is safe, and now it is time > to speak the truth. > > And that the truth is: Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his > own unit died trying to track him down. > ... > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. -- Andre' M. DiMino DeepEnd Research http://deependresearch.org http://sempersecurus.org "Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else" - 1 Thess 5:15 (NIV)
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