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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Rescued Taliban hostage 'struck his estranged wife, tied her ankles and wrists with rope and forced her to have sex' after terrorists held them and their children captive for five years
2019-03-31
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Caitlan Coleman, of Pennsylvania, testified Friday at Joshua Boyle's
    ...ex-husband of Omar Khadr's Islamist sister*, he went on “pilgrimage” to Taliban country with his pregnant American wife to provide aid to the benighted villagers in the region, then was surprised to be held hostage for years by the Haqqanis...
    Ottawa trial

  • Said she was 'very scared' of her husband who got 'extremely angry' and 'hit her'

  • Boyle has pleaded not guilty to a number of criminal charges against Coleman

  • The pair were taken hostage by Taliban fighters
    ... more specifically, the Haqqani Network...
    in 2012 and were freed in 2017

  • They had three children - two boys and a girl - in captivity

  • The purported acts allegedly occurred after they returned to Canada
    What a prince that man is.
  • A judge granted Caitlan's request for full custody of the kids in July 2018

  • She had her and Boyle's fourth child in 2018 and now lives back in Pennsylvania
We’d wondered who he was arrested for hurting. Now we know.

* You recall Omar Khadr, dear Reader. He was the precocious Pakistani-Canadian lad who at only 15 killed an American soldier in an Al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan. After the Canadians jailed him for it, pretty Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized and gave him $8 million (presumably Canadian, which means it is either worth more or less than the same number of American dollars). Omar comes from a family so steeped in jihadi evil that in 1995 the Pakistanis arrested his father for terrorism,
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