US/Canadian hostages released

Oink

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/12/american-caitlin-coleman-family-freed-from-afghanistan-captors.html

Have a read of this.

I hope their backpacking trip to Afghanistan was worth it.

And read the part where the husband went backpacking in Afghanistan when he was already in the books for being related to a Taliban sympathizer. And now he’s afraid of Guantanamo. You magnificent, stupendous, stellar clown.

(Also, I apologize for linking to Fox News.)

Capt'n Midnight

If you go backpacking in a warzone bad things can happen.

When was the last time Afghanistan at peace ?

Gatling

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

If you go backpacking in a warzone bad things can happen.

When was the last time Afghanistan at peace ?

Go back to pre Soviet invasion it was a pretty stable country

Capt'n Midnight

Gatling wrote: »

Go back to pre Soviet invasion it was a pretty stable country

Soviet invasion was in 1979.

Caitlan Coleman is 32.

Manic Moran

I found Afghanistan to be generally quite a beautiful country (The SouthWest part excepted), and can see why folks would want to tourist in it.

That said, it will be a number of decades before I ever feel like I might want to go on holidays there.

McMurphy

So much of this story is confusing, and not adding up.

He was once married to the sister of an inmate in Guantanamo bay.

Backpacking in a war zone.

Refusal to board a US military plane.

I think there's more to this tale than meets the eye, or we're being told about.

iamwhoiam

Hi father in law is not too pleased with him either .


The father of freed Taliban hostage Caitlan Coleman has blamed her Canadian husband for her kidnapping five years ago.
Jim Coleman said it was 'unconscionable' for son-in-law Joshua Boyle to take Caitlan to Kabul, Afghanistan, without telling either of their families when she was five-months pregnant in 2012.
'What I can say is taking your pregnant wife to a very dangerous place, to me, the kind of person that I am, is unconscionable,' he told Good Morning America on Friday, a day after the pair were rescued along with the three children they had in captivity.
Coleman, who lives in Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, also criticized Boyle, 34, for refusing to board a C-130 US military plane which was ready to take them home on Thursday.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4977868/Freed-Taliban-hostage-s-father-slams-Canadian-husband.html#ixzz4vTFlgeBw
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Richard Hillman

Stop Victim Blaming

drdeadlift

Rick Shaw wrote: »

So much of this story is confusing, and not adding up.

He was once married to the sister of an inmate in Guantanamo bay.

Backpacking in a war zone.

Refusal to board a US military plane.

I think there's more to this tale than meets the eye, or we're being told about.

banned?

drdeadlift

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Stop Victim Blaming

Looking into the particulars of a story isnt victim blaming.

mark_jmc

Maybe he was just on a post leaving cert holiday visiting family

EKRIUQ

Rick Shaw wrote: »

So much of this story is confusing, and not adding up.

He was once married to the sister of an inmate in Guantanamo bay.

Backpacking in a war zone.

Refusal to board a US military plane.

I think there's more to this tale than meets the eye, or we're being told about.

I'm wondering did he go to join the Taliban and fight for them, and things didn't turn out for him as he expected.

5rtytry56

Boyle has no problem with spinning the story in his favour though

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/freed-hostage-joshua-boyle-says-haqqani-killed-his-child-and-raped-wife-in-afghanistan-36226338.html

Canis Lupus

drdeadlift wrote: »

banned?

look closer

josip

He referred to himself as a pilgrim in Afghanistan and has asked the Taliban ("Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan") to administer justice to the Haqqani tribe that kidnapped them.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/14/canadian-held-in-afghanistan-says-child-was-killed-and-wife-raped-in-captivity

Methinks that it's his wife and children are the victims here.

Hande hoche!

The wife and kids are probably the main victims. As an aside, the Haqqani network is a fairly swank name for an organization.

imme

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Stop Victim Blaming

Seriously?
I mean seriously?

ChikiChiki

Read about this guy earlier. My first thought is that authorities need to be watching him like a hawk. Very shady story.

josip

josip wrote: »

He referred to himself as a pilgrim in Afghanistan and has asked the Taliban ("Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan") to administer justice to the Haqqani tribe that kidnapped them.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/14/canadian-held-in-afghanistan-says-child-was-killed-and-wife-raped-in-captivity

Methinks that it's his wife and children are the victims here.

I saw the guy on the news. He talked about the murder of his infant daughter and the rape of his wife. There was something about it that struck me as odd, most men would refer to 'our' daughter, and he didn't use his wifes name when speaking of her ordeal. Keeping the family there rather than board a US plane shows how much concern he had for their safety.

It's an odd story.

rafatoni

EKRIUQ wrote: »

I'm wondering did he go to join the Taliban and fight for them, and things didn't turn out for him as he expected.

Thought exact same, something iffy about this story.