US Soldier Held By Taliban Identified

Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, ID, is seen in an online video saying he’s “scared I won’t be able to go home.”

Afghans in contact with the Taliban told the AP that the soldier was held by a Taliban group led by a commander called Maulvi Sangin, who operates in the area where the American went missing. They said the fighters initially planned to smuggle the soldier across the border into Pakistan but ruled that out because of U.S. missile strikes and Pakistani bombing attacks against militant targets in the area. Instead, they decided to move him north into Taliban-controlled areas of Ghazni province.

No conditions have been set for his release.  Bergdahl says this in the propaganda tape:

“To my fellow Americans who have loved ones over here, who know what it’s like to miss them, you have the power to make our government bring them home,” he said. “Please, please bring us home so that we can be back where we belong and not over here, wasting our time and our lives and our precious life that we could be using back in our own country. Please bring us home. It is America and American people who have that power.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.