Taliban: Captured Soldier Joined Cause

[bijou]

(NewsCore) - The only known American soldier in Taliban captivity is training fighters in bombmaking and ambush, according to information reported Sunday from one of his captors and the Afghan intelligence agents working to free him.

Private Bowe Bergdahl disappeared from an American military base in southeastern Afghanistan in June 2009. Last week, one of his captors was interviewed, shedding light on a case that has baffled U.S. military officials.

A Taliban deputy district commander in Paktika province said the 24-year-old American had converted to Islam in the months after his capture. He said Bergdahl, from Idaho’s Sun Valley, had trained Taliban fighters in bomb-making and ambushing convoys.  ...

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpps/news/taliban%3A-captured-soldier-joined-cause-dpgonc-km-20100822_9290058

[DumbAss Tanker]

It's possible, true is a whole 'nother question. 

Young Soviet soldiers captured by the muj occasionally converted to save their butts from death (Slow or fast, depending on who captured you, but death either way).  Some very ugly things are rumored to have happened involving wealthy Arabs 'Touristing' in to pay for the privilege of beheading a captured infidel, back then.

To corrupt an old Brit forces recuiting slogan, 'it's a man's life in the Army, but nobody said it would be a long or pleasant one'.

[djones520]

I hope for his sake it is not true.  Or that he's teaching them how to build bombs that blow up in their face.

[TheSarge]

There has been a lot of speculation since this kid was captured as to the circumstances surrounding the event.