New Video Of A U.S. Soldier Captured In Afghanistan
Date: December 17, 2009
Topic: POW/MIAs
Danny "Greasy" Belcher, Executive Director
Task Force Omega of KY Inc.
Vietnam Infantry Sgt. 68-69
"D" Troop 7th Sqdn. 1st Air Cav
Prisoner of war (POW) Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho, who disappeared more than five months ago in Afghanistan may be in this video. What is being done to bring him home alive? Will he be abandoned like our POW/MIAs from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and other wars?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/16/taliban-to-reportedly-rel_n_394286.html
The following is in the Huffington Post
December 16, 2009
KABUL — The Taliban have announced they will release a new video of a U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring group said Wednesday.
SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S.-based terrorist tracking organization, said the media arm of the Afghan Taliban made the announcement Wednesday on their Web site.
The video is said to be titled, "One of Their People Testified." The Taliban did not name the American.
The only U.S. soldier known to be in captivity is Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho, who disappeared more than five months ago in Afghanistan.
Bergdahl, 23, was captured June 30 in the eastern province of Paktika province near the Pakistan border. His Taliban captors released a propaganda video of him about two weeks later. In the July 19 video, Bergdahl appeared downcast and frightened. No subsequent videos have been released.
U.S. military officials have searched for Bergdahl, but it is not publicly known whether he is even being held in Afghanistan or neighboring Pakistan.
A spokesman for the Idaho National Guard, Lt. Col. Tim Marsano, confirmed he notified the parents about the video this morning after learning about it through news reports.
"They're standing by waiting to see what happens just like everybody else," Marsano said.
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