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Ex-hostage says Taliban some-more honest than US army
- Updated: October 23, 2017
US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is graphic in this undated welfare print supposing by a US Army. PHOTO: REUTERS
US army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who final week pleaded guilty on Monday to deserting his post in Afghanistan in 2009, has pronounced his captors were some-more “honest” with him than a army has been given his recover 3 years ago, Fox News reported.
Bergdahl was hold serf by a Afghan Taliban-allied Haqqani network in Afghanistan after deserting his post until May 2014 when his captors substituted him with 5 Taliban detainees in a Guantanamo Bay apprehension centre.
“At slightest a Taliban were honest adequate to say, ‘I’m a man who’s gonna cut your throat,’” Bergdahl, 31, tells British TV publisher Sean Langan in an disdainful talk with a Sunday Times Magazine patrician ‘The Homecoming from Hell’.
Langan himself was taken warrant by a Taliban while filming in a Pakistan-Afghanistan limit segment in 2008. Three months later, his family negotiated his release with his captors.
Bergdahl says he never utterly knew where he stood with a army as he achieved “administrative duties” while available his abandonment trial.
“Here, it could be a man we pass in a mezzanine who’s going to pointer a paper that sends me divided for life,” he says. “We might as good go behind to kangaroo courts and lynch mobs.”
Bergdahl is approaching to seem for sentencing on Monday in a troops courtroom after pleading guilty to abandonment and contravention before a enemy.
He could face life in prison.
The Obama administration was rarely criticised for a understanding that saw a United States exchanging 5 Taliban detainees during Guantanamo Bay with Bergdahl.
Obama’s successor, Donald Trump, heaped critique on Bergdahl during a 2016 presidential campaign.