Jani bergdahl biography affair

Bowe Bergdahl (born March 28, 1986) is a former United States Army soldier who was held captive from 2009 to 2014 by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network.
Bob and Jani Bergdahl, the parents of captive U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe affair during the Reagan administration to all earlier wars.
“We were not living through what Jani and Bob (Bowe Bergdahl's parents) did,” Stefanie O'Neill told The Washington Post.

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Join the discussion: Should the Bergdahl release be a family affair?

The public uproar over the exchange of American soldier Bowe Bergdahl for five U.S.-held Taliban agents has extended beyond Bowe and the Obama administration to Bergdahl’s family.

Bergdahl’s father in particular has caught the public eye. Bill O’Reilly said that the bearded Bergdahl “looked like a Muslim,” The Washington Post reported, and Bergdahl’s neighbors and associates grew concerned as he began studying Pashto, one of the official languages of Afghanistan, growing a beard, and intensely studying the culture and religion of the Taliban and the Afghans that his son had spent time with, The Washington Post reported.

The Bergdahls' former pastor, Bob Henley “would ask Bergdahl if he hadn’t crossed some line, if he hadn’t succumbed to some form of the captive-bonding Stockholm syndrome,” The Washington Post wrote.

Bergdahl also has a controversial Twitter account that Business Insider has examined. Bergdahl’s Twitter activity has included tweeting Taliban press releases, tweeting Quran verses at Taliban

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Bowe Bergdahl

Former American soldier who was captured by the Taliban after leaving his post

Beaudry Robert "Bowe" Bergdahl (born March 28, 1986) is a former United States Army soldier who was held captive from 2009 to 2014 by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan and Pakistan.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Bergdahl was captured after leaving his post on June 30, 2009. The circumstances under which Bergdahl went missing and how he was captured by the Taliban have since become subjects of intense media scrutiny. He was released on May 31, 2014, as part of a prisoner exchange for five high ranking Taliban members who were being held at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay.

Bergdahl was tried by general court-martial on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy,^[9] and on October 16, 2017, he entered a guilty plea before a military judge at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.^[10] On November 3, 2017, he was sentenced to be dishonorably discharged, reduced in rank to private and fined $1,000 per month from his p

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Op-Ed: How the White House bungled the Bowe Bergdahl case

Following an extended investigation, the U.S. Army last week announced serious charges against Sgt. Robert “Bowe” Bergdahl, the soldier who was captured by the Taliban in 2009 while serving in Afghanistan, then released last May through a prisoner exchange. The Army is seeking a court-martial on the charge of desertion plus the even graver charge of “misbehavior before the enemy.” Bergdahl, if convicted, could serve life in prison.

How strange that, only 10 months ago, President Obama hailed the soldier’s return with fanfare at the Rose Garden, including photo ops with Bergdahl’s parents. The White House spun the story as rare good news out of Afghanistan, the seemingly endless war that the president has been trying to wind down for years.

From today’s vantage point, the administration’s celebration of this POW’s homecoming seems misguided, to say the least. But it seemed misguided last spring, too. Even at that time, there were dissenting voices wondering if securing Bergdahl’s release, in a barter with the enemy