Report: Bergdahl was ‘high’ when captured in Afghanistan
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Fox News Channel is reporting Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was apparently “high” with a small group of Afghan soldiers when they were picked up by nomads in 2009. The information comes from a former CIA operative who was running a network of informants on the ground.
The information brings some additional detail to the otherwise murky picture of the circumstances of Bergdahl’s disappearance and capture, five years before the Obama administration traded five Guantanamo prisoners for Bergdahl’s freedom. The former CIA operative told Fox News Bergdahl was captured along with others, and sold to the Haqqani terrorist network in Pakistan within four days.
“The call came in and what it said was they had just broken out the message that an American soldier along with two or three Afghan soldiers had been captured or taken by a group of nomads,”Duane ‘Dewey’ Clarridge told Fox News, speaking for the first time publicly about the incident.
He added that the call said, “they were using the Pashto ‘diwana,’ which in this case meant high on hashish.”
Retired Lt. Gen. David Fridovich, a former senior special operations commander who watched events unfold in 2009, told Fox News the information was deemed “credible” and “highly useful.”
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