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Taliban is waiting for a response from US on POW Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl
Posted on August 10, 2009
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Former president Bill Clinton just went to North Korea to free two women who worked for former vice-president Al Gore. They illegally had entered communist North Korea and were caught
Will Bill Clinton now do more than he did for our POW/MIAs when he was our president? I sure hope so.
Danny "Greasy" Belcher, Executive Director
Task Force Omega of KY Inc.
Vietnam Infantry Sgt. 68-69
"D" Troop 7th Sqdn. 1st Air Cav
Aug 9 06:51 AM US/Eastern
By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) - A militant commander who is holding a U.S. soldier abducted in Afghanistan said Sunday that Taliban leader Mullah Omar's council is waiting for a response to its demands before deciding the American's fate.
It was the first news of Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, made public since a Taliban video was released July 18.
Maulvi Sangin, an insurgent commander for eastern Afghanistan, said the Taliban's governing body was awaiting a response to demands it made to the U.S. for his return.
"The American's fate is in the hand of (leadership), which is waiting until a response from the Americans to its demands," Sangin told The Associated Press.
Sangin would not elaborate on the demands or say if any deadline had been given. A spokesman for Sangin had previously said the soldier would be killed unless the U.S. stops airstrikes in two areas of eastern Afghanistan.
Bergdahl, of Hailey, Idaho, was serving with an Alaska-based infantry regiment when he disappeared June 30, just five months after arriving in Afghanistan. He was serving at an eastern base near the border with Pakistan. The circumstances of his capture weren't clear. Details of such incidents are routinely withheld by the military to avoid giving away any information to captors.
Sangin, who spoke by telephone from Pakistan, refused to say to say on which side of the border Bergdahl was being held.
Last month, Afghans in contact with the Taliban told The Associated Press that the fighters had 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 Afghanistan's Ghazni province.
The Taliban move freely between the mountainous ethnic Pashtun areas on both sides of the border.
Lt. Cmdr. Christine Sidenstricker, a U.S. military spokeswoman in Kabul, would not comment on the status of Bergdahl's case.
"We do not want to do anything that compromises his safety or efforts to recover him," she said. "Recovery efforts remain one of the largest ongoing operations and we are doing everything we can to get him back safely."
This story was on brittbar.com and he is an AP writer.
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