Bowe Bergdahl was taken prisoner by the Taliban in June 2009 while serving in Afghanistan. A few days ago Bergdahl showed up in a Taliban propaganda video. A journalist who had the experience of being held POW by the Taliban for 45 days said the Afghans had refrained from killing Bowe Bergdahl due to his propaganda value. The Taliban won't allow someone to take out an payday loan to buy Bergdahl's freedom either..
Keeping Bergdahl for 16 months
Probably the most recent Taliban video clip shows Bowe Bergdahl clean shaven. Of course, he also looked like he had been beaten fairly recently. The appearance of Bergdahl in the Taliban video clip makes it seem as if the video clip was taken right after he was captured. Experts believe it was close to sixteen months ago. The video clip launched Wed is the fourth Taliban video clip Bergdahl has came out in since he was captured in eastern Afghanistan. Other videos show him with facial hair. A longer beard is in some. Within the 45 minute video clip that has clips of militant attacks and a senior Taliban commander called Jalaluddin Haqqani giving a speech, the United States solider appears and is expected to be the only U.S. soldier the Taliban is holding hostage.
Taliban seeing cooperation from Bergdahl?
A Taliban video clip showed Bergdahl in it in April. He was begging for release and denouncing the Afghanistan war. It was said in the Sunday Times in August that Bowe Bergdahl was converted to Islam and learned how to convert a cell phone into a remote detonator for a roadside bomb. This is what one of the supposed Bergdahl captors said. At the time, Afghan intelligence officials said Bowe Bergdahl was cooperating with the Taliban. The Taliban supposedly already knew the data given from Bowe Bergdahl. The captor said the American was just attempting to stay still living by pretending to be a Muslim.
Values used by Bergdahl to keep still living
A journalist explained that Bergdahl is safe. This was after the journalist was, in 2008, captured by the Taliban. Jere Van Dyk said the Taliban likely wouldn't hurt him in an interview with ID Public Television. Van Dyk had the experience of being held POW by the Taliban for 45 days. He was released after the kidnapping. He said the Taliban would try to brainwash Bergdahl and pressure him to become a Muslim. He is a propaganda tool though. He is nevertheless alive for this reason. By letting him live, Van Dyk said, the Taliban are demonstrating that they have changed their ways and no longer behead their captors to terrorize their enemies.
Citations
CBS News
cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/08/world/main7129125.shtml
Idaho Mountain Express
mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005134245
Daily Mail
dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1305184/Bowe-Bergdahl-Taliban-claim-captured-U-S-solider-teaching-fighters-bomb-making-skills.html
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