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Ex-POW held by Taliban ‘wanted to be Jason Bourne’
FILE – This undated file image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier held prisoner for years by the Taliban after leaving his post in Afghanistan.
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For the first time, we’re hearing Bergdahl’s explanation.
‘Suddenly, it really starts to sink in that I really did something bad. “You know, that I could be what it is that all those guys out there that go to the movies and watch those movies, they all want to be that, but I wanted to prove that I was that”.
The highly anticipated second season of the podcast Serial dropped on Thursday, this time focused on the high-profile military case against USA soldier, Bowe Bergdahl.
In the first episode, Bergdahl said he left his base tohighlight poor leadership within his unit.
“All I was seeing was leadership failure, to the point where the lives of the guys sitting next to me were literally, from what I could see, in danger”, said Bergdahl.
He says after the sun came up, a group of men on motorcycles captured him as he walked through nearby flatland desert. She said that Bergdahl’s version of events could have been concocted during his five years in captivity.
Wednesday, House Republicans released a report claiming that the Obama administration misled Congress about the trade.
Because of the light that Koenig shed through the Serial podcast-which was downloaded over 100 million times-the courts of Maryland granted Adnan a hearing to introduce new evidence, an important step toward potentially getting a new trial.
“The report struggles to prove its assertions, yet it excoriates the administration over the means by which Sergeant Bergdahl’s release was secured”, wrote Reps.
In a blog post, Koenig noted that the Bergdahl case has already been widely covered, but said “it spins out in so many unexpected directions” that people don’t know about.
The inquiry into the exchange of five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for Sgt. Bergdahl concluded that the transfer of the prisoners violated several laws, including by failing to notify Congress about the plan.
Those recommendations were sent in October to Army Gen. Robert Abrams, who will make the final decision on Bergdahl’s fate.
The interview comes from Mark Boal, a screenwriter who spoke with Bergdahl while researching a future film.
In March, Bergdahl was charged with desertion and “misbehaviour before the enemy”.
Here are four other interesting tidbits from the first episode, titled “DUSTWUN” – or “duty status – whereabouts unknown”. In the episode, Bergdahl says he wanted to expose the leadership failure he experienced in Afghanistan.
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Episode one, though a bit more political and widely known than the first season’s story, has all the makings of a gripping season-Koenig’s thoughtful pauses, insightful questions, and cringeworthy first hand accounts.