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| Family Freed From Afghan Hostages Refusing to Return to US |
| 2017-10-13 |
| [Townhall] The White House announced the negotiated release of an American woman and her family Thursday, all of whom had been held hostage in Afghanistan by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network since 2012. Caitlin Coleman, 32, was traveling with her Canadian husband in Afghanistan when they were kidnapped. She was pregnant at the time and had two more children in captivity. "Today they are free. This is a positive moment for our country's relationship with Pakistan," President Trump said in a statement. "The Pakistani government's cooperation is a sign that it is honoring America's wishes for it to do more to provide security in the region." But things took a bizarre twist Thursday afternoon when officials said the woman’s husband, Josh Boyle, was refusing to leave the country. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #17 I can’t even... |
| Posted by: Thomose Spawn of the Antelope4762 2017-10-13 22:03 |
| #16 Maybe a biscuit, with jelly. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-10-13 21:23 |
| #15 At 4pm local time, US officials informed Pakistani intelligence and at 7pm, the family was rescued in Kurram, 165 miles across the border from Kabul where the couple was kidnapped in 2012. Reports of whether the captors survived are conflicting. Boyle said they were murdered after saying 'kill the hostages'. The family was hiding in the trunk of the car and were removed. They were placed on a Pakistani military helicopter and were taken to the US embassy in Islamabad. US officials tell a different story and suggest that the family had been in Pakistan for two years before they were rescued. The discrepancy is significant - the US has accused Pakistan repeatedly of harboring and enabling terrorist networks. Residents in Kurram said they had seen drones flying above them for days before the rescue. Pakistani officials say they ambushed the vehicle that was transporting the family and shot out its tires to bring it to a sudden halt. Unnamed US and Canadian officials however say the family had been in the country for years and that Pakistani officials were aware of their presence there. 'It means Pakistan could have released them far earlier... But due to the tension with the US they felt it was the right moment,' one source said. A senior Taliban commander also denied the military's account to AFP, saying the militants had released the hostages of their own volition. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4977868/Freed-Taliban-hostage-s-father-slams-Canadian-husband.html |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2017-10-13 20:14 |
| #14 Father of freed Taliban hostage lashes out at her 'unconscionable' Canadian husband for taking her to Afghanistan and slams him for snubbing US military plane ride home |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2017-10-13 19:05 |
| #13 What does a doughboy change to? Or two? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-10-13 18:45 |
| #12 Maybe he'd feel better if we threw in a sex change? |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-10-13 17:20 |
| #11 As with Bergdahl, the back story is important. |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-10-13 17:08 |
| #10 His ex wife isn’t much better than her brother Boyle married Zaynab Khadr in 2009. He was 25, she was 29. It was the third marriage for Zaynab. The first two were arranged: her first husband was sought as a conspirator in a bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan; Osama Bin Laden was one of the guests at her second wedding in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2017-10-13 13:29 |
| #9 The wicked flee when no man pursueth. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2017-10-13 13:20 |
| #8 #6 Wait a second, is the the same Khadr that recently recieved $8million in cash from the Canadian government? Because it sounds like Boyle's former brother-in law was THAT Khadr. Posted by Charles Yep, that Khadr...the same one that killed SFC Speer. This bunch of "tourists" are enemies. |
| Posted by: Tennessee 2017-10-13 12:07 |
| #7 Then let them stay. But tell them that they're on their own from this point forward. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-10-13 09:41 |
| #6 Wait a second, is the the same Khadr that recently recieved $8million in cash from the Canadian government? Because it sounds like Boyle's former brother-in law was THAT Khadr. |
| Posted by: Charles 2017-10-13 09:04 |
| #5 Boyle and his wife have been described as innocents and "harmless hippies" by Canadian authorities. One U.S. official told The Associated Press that Boyle was nervous about being in "custody" given his background. Are they complicit in something, have Stockholm syndrome or just useful idiots who have gone beyond their usefulness? I feel sorry for the kids as well. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-10-13 08:16 |
| #4 Make the Fuqwads buy their own tickets back. The American taxpayers already wasted several hundred thousand dollars sending a military transport for them. |
| Posted by: Guillibaldo Ulavish2533 2017-10-13 08:08 |
| #3 But Boyle is refusing to board an American military plane in Pakistan waiting to take them home, fearing he'll be arrested, a U.S. official said. Boyle was previously married to the sister of Omar Khadr, a Canadian man who spent 10 years at Guantanamo Bay after being captured in 2002 in a firefight at an Al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan.The Canadian-born Khadr was 15 in 2002 when he tossed a grenade in a firefight that killed U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, a special forces medic. So the Boyle (insert Muslim name here) family thought they had immunity to traipse through Afg-Pak. Or was their purpose to offer themselves up for ransom? I hope the US or Canadian govs didn't pay one cent for these fuqwads (they do have a Muslim name). |
| Posted by: Guillibaldo Ulavish2533 2017-10-13 08:04 |
| #2 From the article: Boyle was previously married to the sister of Omar Khadr, a Canadian man who spent 10 years at Guantanamo Bay after being captured in 2002 in a firefight at an Al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan. The Canadian-born Khadr was 15 in 2002 when he tossed a grenade in a firefight that killed U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, a special forces medic. One U.S. official told The Associated Press that Boyle was nervous about being in "custody" given his background. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-10-13 06:01 |
| #1 Caitlin Coleman, 32, was traveling with her Canadian husband in Afghanistan when they were kidnapped. She was pregnant at the time..... Proof of |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-10-13 03:18 |