This Article is From Jun 04, 2014

Taliban Video Shows Handover of US Soldier

Taliban Video Shows Handover of US Soldier

This still image provided on December 7, 2010 by IntelCenter shows the Taliban associated video production group Manba al-Jihad release of US Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl (L).

Kabul: The Taliban have released a video showing the handover of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl to US forces in eastern Afghanistan.

The video, emailed to media on Wednesday, shows Bergdahl in traditional Afghan clothing sitting in a pickup truck parked on a hillside. More than a dozen Taliban fighters with machine guns stand around the truck and on the hillside.

Bergdahl is seen blinking frequently as he looks at and listens to his captors.

A Black Hawk helicopter then lands and two Taliban fighters, one carrying a white flag, lead Bergdahl half way. He is greeted and taken by three Western-looking men in civilian clothing to the helicopter, where soldiers in Army uniforms are waiting.

After five years in captivity, Bergdahl was released Saturday in a swap for five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo.
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