Taleban parade frightened soldier

The Taleban have released a video of a US soldier captured in Afghanistan last month in which he pleads for American troops to leave the country.

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The visibly shaken soldier, who has been identified by the Pentagon as Private First Class Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, from Idaho, is frequently prompted in English by his captors, and says at one point: “I’m scared, scared I won’t be able to go home. It’s very unnerving to be a prisoner.”

Private Bergdahl went missing near his base in eastern Afghanistan on June 30, and is the first American soldier to be captured by the Taleban since the US-led invasion in 2001.

The video comes amid a key US and British offensive in southern Afghanistan to confront the increasingly dangerous Taleban and al-Qaeda insurgency that is threatening the Government of President Karzai. More

'...a message to the American people.

"To my fellow Americans who have loved ones over here, who know what it's like to miss them, you have the power to make our government bring them home," he said. "Please, please bring us home so that we can be back where we belong and not over here, wasting our time and our lives and our precious life that we could be using back in our own country. Please bring us home. It is America and American people who have that power."...'

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