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NBC News has info from former Taliban on finding Bergdahl (Original Post) underpants Jun 2014 OP
Because the Taliban is totally trustworthy. nt Lex Jun 2014 #1
No I don't mean that at all underpants Jun 2014 #2
Sorry, I didn't mean you personally. Lex Jun 2014 #4
No problem underpants Jun 2014 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Lex Jun 2014 #3
Interesting but the source has to be taken into account when reading it. hrmjustin Jun 2014 #5
No kidding underpants Jun 2014 #7
There are somethings that just make common sense. Baitball Blogger Jun 2014 #8
Interesting, but very possibly unreliable/propaganda stuff. TwilightGardener Jun 2014 #9
So the Taliban we hate are now reliable news sources? The media world has gone insane? Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #10
They really want to trash this guy Proud Liberal Dem Jun 2014 #11
He's getting a military trial underpants Jun 2014 #12

underpants

(182,736 posts)
2. No I don't mean that at all
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 04:43 PM
Jun 2014

Having trouble posting text from my phone.

I only posted it because, so far (IF at all near the truth), this is the closest info that we have seen. That's all.

Response to Lex (Reply #1)

Baitball Blogger

(46,698 posts)
8. There are somethings that just make common sense.
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 04:54 PM
Jun 2014

Don't take seriously anything that a person says when he's in the negotiation stages of a settlement agreement; and don't hang your hat on anything that a man says when he's about to become a prisoner of war.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
10. So the Taliban we hate are now reliable news sources? The media world has gone insane?
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 05:40 PM
Jun 2014

Wonder how much they were paid for this nonsense....what an incestuous relationship the American media has with unreliable sources, look how speculation had become news in the thirst to be first, the first to manipulate truth.

underpants

(182,736 posts)
12. He's getting a military trial
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 06:39 PM
Jun 2014

So he will have way less rights and protections than in civilian court. BUT it is very structured and all of this nonsense won't be in the consideration.

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