UPDATED: Freed hostage says Taliban murdered his baby, raped wife
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Source: Agence France-Presse
Caitlan Coleman (L) and Joshua Boyle (R) shown holding their children during their captivity, in an undated still image from a video provided by the Site Intelligence Group
14 OCT 2017
Freed Canadian hostage Joshua Boyle accused his kidnappers of murdering his baby daughter and raping his wife during his family's years-long captivity by the Haqqani network, a Taliban-affiliated group operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Boyle leveled the accusations in a terse statement he read on arrival in Toronto late Friday with his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, and three children, who were freed on Wednesday by Pakistani troops.
He condemned the Haqqani network's "stupidity and evil of authorizing the murder of my infant daughter" in "retaliation for my repeated refusal to accept an offer that the miscreant of the Haqqani network had made to me, and the stupidity and evil of the subsequent rape of my wife." He said the rape was not the action of a lone guard but aided by the captain of the guard and a Haqqani commander he identified as Abu Hajr.
The Haqqani group is headed by Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is also the Afghan Taliban's deputy leader.
Read more: https://www.afp.com/en/news/23/freed-hostage-says-taliban-murdered-his-baby-raped-wife
UPDATE:
Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle are free. Their mysterious story is raising new questions.
By Greg Jaffe October 13 at 9:48 PM
Pakistani officials have described the mission to free an American woman, her Canadian husband and their three children as a harrowing operation and a rare bit of positive news in the troubled relationship between their country and the United States.
Pakistani soldiers, acting on American intelligence, appear to have opened fire Wednesday at the tires of a car carrying Caitlan Coleman, 31, her husband, Joshua Boyle, 34, and their three children not long after it crossed the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan’s tribal areas.
A senior Trump administration official, shortly after the family’s release, compared their ordeal to “living in a hole for five years.” But, as with so many aspects of the murky and often confusing U.S.-Pakistan relationship, the family’s dramatic rescue has raised as many questions as it has answered. On Friday night, Coleman, Boyle and their children arrived in Toronto after the family, at the husband’s insistence, had refused to get on a plane for the United States.
Boyle’s father told the New York Times that his son did not want to stop at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, where Americans have been accused of abusing detainees.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/caitlan-coleman-and-joshua-boyle-are-free-their-mysterious-story-is-raising-new-questions/2017/10/13/7e654ea8-b045-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html
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