Dilip Joseph: Colorado Springs Doctor Rescued from Taliban where US Loses SEAL Op!

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Dilip Joseph: Colorado Springs Doctor Rescued from Taliban (Additional Info)

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Dec 9, 2012 6:34am
Dilip Joseph: Colorado Springs Doctor Rescued from Taliban


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The American doctor rescued from the Taliban in Afghanistan Saturday by U.S. Special Operations Forces is the medical adviser for a Colorado Springs NGO, his employer confirmed today.

Dr. Dilip Joseph and two colleagues were kidnapped by a group of armed men while returning from a visit to a rural medical clinic in eastern Kabul Province, according to a statement from their employer, Colorado Springs-based Morning Star Development. The statement said the three were eventually taken to a mountainous area about 50 miles from the border with Pakistan.

Morning Star’s crisis management team in Colorado Springs was in contact with the hostages and their captors almost immediately, the statement said.

On Saturday evening in Afghanistan, two of the three hostages were released. Morning Star did not release their names in order to protect their identities. Dr. Joseph remained in captivity.

Gen. John R. Allen, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, ordered the mission to rescue Joseph when “intelligence showed that Joseph was in imminent danger of injury or death”, according to a military press release.

Morning Star said Joseph was in good condition and will probably return home to Colorado Springs in the next few days.

A Defense Department official told ABC’s Luis Martinez that Joseph can walk, but was beaten up by his captors.

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/12/dilip-joseph-colorado-springs-doctor-rescued-from-taliban/

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1. Something caught my eye when hearing this story

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.... on Monday at around 4AM on Up To The Minute (CBS). First the story told about the Seal 6 special forces soldier getting killed, and then mentioned who it was that they were capturing from a hostage situation. They mentioned this Dilip Joseph, MD who was working with an NGO. And at this point, I expected them to say "Doctors Without Borders". But they didn't. They said he was a doctor with "Morning Star Development". Huh? I'd never heard of this NGO group called "Morning Star Development". Development? My curiosity was piqued and I suddenly wanted to know exactly who this Dr Joseph was and exactly what kind of NGO this was, that the Seal 6 Soldier gave his life for.

When I click on your link to read the rest of this story, (ABC News from 12-9-12 Sunday), there are a couple links to videos with the Dr Joseph, but both of them have been removed.

So this is what I found on Dr Dilip Joseph: He is supposedly a "medical adviser" to this non profit org named "Morning Star Development" in Colorado Springs, CO. Somewhere it mentions that Dilip Joseph was on MSD's "crisis management team." And lastly, I found this description of MSD itself: "provides aide in Afghanastan with FUNDRAISING AND COMMUNICATIONS."

This link here in particular is very interesting as it links MSD to JACK ABRAMOFF. It was posted to DU by Judi Lynn on 4-7-2011:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4805883