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Originally Posted by Minnie
His father describes him (both of them) as quite naive. I suppose to a degree, I could see that, but as you said, it seemed far more calculated than "hey, I know, let's go backpacking in Taliban territory while you're heavily pregnant, dear."
Trying to understand this but nothing about it computes to me. But then again, Afghanistan wouldn't even be on my list of places to go backpacking even at peak health, never mind pregnant, not in its current unstable state.
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The guy wants to take his 7 months pregnant wife there because he wants to join and raise his family with the Taliban, that's my conclusion.
You don't take your 7 months pregnant wife out hiking in the boonies of a country with remedial medical care, and take the chance that you'll be far away from help if something goes wrong with the pregnancy.
Maybe the Taliban took him and when he said "I want to be one of you" they looked at him and said "You'll be better as a hostage and we can wring some money out of your family".
Or maybe he said "I want to join you see, and we'll pretend I'm a hostage and maybe we can con some people out of some money see".
But frankly, they're not going to hold him alive for that long as a hostage if there's not an economic payoff. If his parents had refused to pay money to get him back, they wouldn't have kept him for what 5 years? And fed his growing family, they would have put a bullet in their heads and moved on.
Nothing about this story is making sense.
Maybe the American intelligence just assumed that was a hostage and when the Pakistani army rescued him he was like "OMG the horror, I'm so glad you rescued us, USA USA."