{"id":58925,"date":"2015-03-26T08:07:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T12:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58925"},"modified":"2015-03-26T08:07:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T12:07:10","slug":"bergdahl-claims-that-he-tried-to-escape-from-captors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58925","title":{"rendered":"Bergdahl claims that he tried to escape from captors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters<\/a> reports that Bowe Bergdahl claims that he tried to escape from the Taliban\/Haqqani folks who were holding him, according to a statement that his lawyer released yesterday;<\/p>\n

…Bergdahl tried to escape his Taliban captors a dozen times in five years as a prisoner of war, once remaining free for nine days, but each time he was found and brutally beaten…<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The sergeant said his first escape attempt occurred within hours of his initial capture, when his minders briefly left him alone in a village where he was being interrogated and beaten for evading questions.<\/p>\n

“After a while they put the blindfold back on and threw the blanket over my head. Some moments after that I believed I had a chance to run for it and did,” Bergdahl said.<\/p>\n

He was tackled near the outskirts of the village by a large group of men who pummeled him with their fists and clubbed him with the butt of an AK-47 rifle, snapping off the stock.<\/p>\n

He tried to escape again near the end of his first week as a prisoner, eluding his captors for about 15 minutes in a populated area, the statement said, but he was found and beaten with a thick rubber hose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have no doubt that he tried to escape, he escaped from his own US military unit, didn’t he? But the charges against him are for the reasons that he left his unit, not his conduct while in captivity. His escape attempts can’t mitigate the fact that he walked away from his unit, left his weapon and body armor behind. He shipped some of his possessions home and then went on a walkabout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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