Bergdahl declared jihad in captivity, secret documents show
By James Rosen
Published June 06, 2014
FoxNews.com
U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at one point during his captivity converted to Islam, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a “mujahid,” or warrior for Islam, according to secret documents prepared on the basis of a purported eyewitness account and obtained by Fox News.
The reports indicate that Bergdahl’s relations with his Haqqani captors morphed over time, from periods of hostility, where he was treated very much like a hostage, to periods where, as one source told Fox News, “he became much more of an accepted fellow” than is popularly understood. He even reportedly was allowed to carry a gun at times.
The documents show that Bergdahl at one point escaped his captors for five days and was kept, upon his re-capture, in a metal cage, like an animal. In addition, the reports detail discussions of prisoner swaps and other attempts at a negotiated resolution to the case that appear to have commenced as early as the fall of 2009.
The reports are rich in on-the-ground detail — including the names and locations of the Haqqani commanders who ran the 200-man rotation used to guard the Idaho native — and present the most detailed view yet of what Bergdahl’s life over the past five years has been like. These real-time dispatches were generated by the Eclipse Group, a shadowy private firm of former intelligence officers and operatives that has subcontracted with the Defense Department and prominent corporations to deliver granular intelligence on terrorist activities and other security-related topics, often from challenging environments in far-flung corners of the globe.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/06/exclusive-bergdahl-declared-jihad-secret-documents-show/
POWs suffer in captivity. A lone prisioner is very vulnerable to Stockholm Syndrome, identifying with those who will feed him and decide whether he will live or die every day. He was held by an especially brutal branch of Al-Queda. He is lucky to be alive.
I’m all for doing anything to bring POWs home, no matter how crappy the exchange deal is. However, I don’t believe deserters are POWs.
A soldier has been brought home. Let the military court determine if there are charges to be brought, not rumor and unnamed sources.
What about the 5 that were set free to plot against the USA. What court will judge them?
It was a good trade. Those prisoners were to be released anyway.
One American soldier is worth it. To leave him behind when the American military withdraws from Afghanistan would have been criminal.
The Taliban exists with or without those 5. One American is more valuable that 5 of them. We value life.
I’ll defer to the opinion of the soldiers who served honorably with him.
They say he deserted.
He’s a deserter and doesn’t deserve an ounce of respect from this country!!!!