In 2014 the Obama Administration released 5 Taliban Commanders in exchange for the release
of Sgt.
Bdeowe Bergdahl, a US soldier who had been held in captivity by the Taliban for more
than five years.
Now, only eight months after his release, Sgt.
Bergdahl may be charged
with desertion by the US Army.
So what happened?
How did we get here?
Well the timeline is fairly straight forward and we’re going to give you a condensed
version of
that now.
In June 2009 Private.
Bergdahl is captured in Afghanistan's Paktika province,
after reportedly walking off his US army base.
Almost a month after his capture The Taliban release a video of Bergdahl
expressing his desire to go home but also stating that the war in Afghanistan is not
worth the
human cost.
In May 2012, Bergdahl’s parents talk to the press about the state of their son.
They reveal that the Obama administration is in secret negotiations with the Taliban
to bring
Bergdahl home in a proposed prisoner exchange.
In another article, Bowe’s last email to his parents before his capture is published.
In it, he conveys his frustration toward the behaviour of his fellow soldiers and the US
army in
Afghanistan.
Five years since his capture, Bergdahl is finally released by the Taliban in
exchange for five commanders held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
But reaction to Bergdahl’s release is mixed.
Suspicions begin to grow around
the circumstances that Bergdahl disappeared in Afghanistan.
Experts argue that the soldier
abandoned his post which many see as a betrayal to the US Army.
The US Army announce an investigation and an army insider has suggested that
the US military may court-marshall Sgt.
Bergdahl for deserting his post.
However, a formal
decision has yet to be made.
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