By Michelle Malkin via NRO:
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A few weeks after U.S. Army Private First Class Bowie
Bergdahl's so-called “capture” in late June 2009, three conflicting accounts
surfaced: U.S. officials told the Associated Press that Bergdahl had “walked
off” the base with three Afghans; the Taliban claimed on its website that “a
drunken American soldier had come out of his garrison” and into their arms; and
Bergdahl claimed in his Taliban “hostage video” that he had “lagged behind a patrol”
before being captured.
Were the AP’s sources "mistaken?" Or is the disturbing
first account the right one?
What about the “three Afghans” Private First Class
Bergdahl reportedly “just walked off” with after his shift? Who [were] they?
[Did they in fact exist?] What’s going on?
* WHAT DO THE RECORDS SAY ABOUT THE SUPPOSED
"PATROL" BERGDAHL WAS SUPPOSEDLY ON?
Five years ago, one of the brave soldiers who risked his
life to search for Bergdahl answered my questions, and I published his
statement on July 20, 2009: “I know the story and the accounts that he was
drunk or that he was lagging behind on patrol are not true — this soldier
planned this move for a long time. He walked off the post with a day’s supply
of water and had written down before that he wanted to live in the mountains. .
. . He is an embarrassment to everyone who has worn the uniform.”
* WHO IS THIS SOLDIER? HAS HE GIVEN THIS SAME STATEMENT
UNDER OATH?
After news broke of President Obama’s trade of five
high-level Taliban commanders at Gitmo for Bergdahl’s “freedom,” I heard from
another soldier who served on the search team. “Many of my brothers died
because of Bergdahl’s actions, and this has been a very hard day for all
Geronimos,” he told me after documenting his proof of service.
Other journalists ignored his attempts to get the truth
out.
* WHO IS THIS SOLDIER? AGAIN, HAS HE GIVEN THIS SAME
STATEMENT UNDER OATH?
* WHICH JOURNALISTS IGNORED HIM - NAMES PLEASE!
My source still holds a highly sensitive position, so you
won’t see him all over the cable news shows. But he wants all of you to know
the hell he and his comrades have been reliving:
“I was assigned to 1st Platoon of Blackfoot Company,”
based out of Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Khost, Afghanistan, he
said. “Bowe’s platoon was assigned to conduct security and stability operations
out of FOB Sharana and other locations in Paktika. The untold background that
led to Bowe’s situation involves an article and pictures published by Guardian
reporter Sean Smith.” One of the battalion leaders punished soldiers, including
Bergdahl (who had been photographed snoozing in his armored vehicle), with
extra guard-duty assignments for conducting operations in an unprofessional
manner at Outpost MEST (OP MEST).
* GO ON...
“Bergdahl was already disenchanted with the war effort,”
my source said, “and I think the extra duty was the last straw for him.” On the
morning of June 30, 2009, “Bergdahl completed a guard shift, removed his
equipment, weapon, and sensitive items, and left OP MEST with several Afghan
security forces personnel. He took a compass, a couple bottles of water, and
two knives and his journal. His exact intentions may never be known, but he
willingly walked off OP MEST and was secured by enemy forces not long after.”
* AGAIN... I WANT THIS UNDER OATH! (I WANT NAMES AND SWORN
STATEMENTS!)
My source, who had been up the previous night on a
separate raid, was “shaken awake” on the afternoon Bergdahl disappeared. “We
were told there was a DUSTWUN (Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown) and to pack for
a three-hour assault. We received a brief that Bergdahl was missing, and we
were going to get him. . . . Sometime after dark we boarded CH-47s to assault
an objective thought to contain Bergdahl. We never made it to the landing zone,
as the helicopters took very heavy fire on approach to the objective and had to
divert.”
The soldier’s Focused Targeting Force (FTF) platoon was
not told that it was being diverted to OP MEST. When they landed, he said, “We
thought we were in enemy territory, so I recall my friends and I screaming
‘vehicles’ and preparing to engage with the LAW and SMAW-D rockets we carried.
We soon realized the lights were from RG-31 and Maxpro MRAPs, friendly
vehicles, and de-escalated the situation. The CH-47s had dropped us off at OP
MEST and did not relay that information.”
With that near-disaster over, the soldier recounted: “We
averaged 18 to 22 kilometers a day on foot, clearing house to house, room to
room, looking for Bergdahl. . . . We even went as far as rappelling down wells
and crawling through tunnels to look for him.” The standard procedure for
recapturing Bergdahl was not “normal,” the soldier noted. “He was very good
with knives and trained to throw and fight hand-to-hand with knives. We did not
know the mental state of Bergdahl at the time. All we knew was he left on his
own, he caused us lots of hardship, and if we entered a room and saw him, we
would put him down because he could attack us.”
* THIS NEEDS TO BE CONFIRMED. WRITTEN ORDERS MUST EXIST! DIGITAL BREAD CRUMBS MUST EXIST EVEN IF A COVER-UP IS BEING ATTEMPTED!
On the morning of July 4, 2009, the soldier recalled, “we
assaulted several objectives looking for Bergdahl. . . . We executed the
mission without incident and were waiting to be exfiltrated. Our aircraft were
in sight when they turned and flew in the opposite direction. At the time we
did not know why, but we were stranded. The enemy took advantage of Bergdahl’s
capture and attacked numerous outposts that morning.”
“Combat Outpost Zerok was almost overrun, multiple
soldiers were wounded, and PFCs Justin Casillas and Aaron Fairbairn lost their
lives fighting that day,” the soldier told me.
My source continued: “We learned later that our
exfiltration aircraft were diverted to support COP Zerok and that the situation
there was so dire that at one point there were two Apache gunships on station
that went Winchester, meaning they expended all ordinance and ammunition, but
they would not abandon the soldiers still fighting, so they resorted to low-level
unarmed passes to distract the enemy. Bergdahl’s actions undoubtedly caused
these events. We spent the remainder of Independence Day walking in the desert
. . . waiting for aircraft that did not come for many, many hours.”
He continued: “A few days later, we (FTF) conducted a
daylight raid on some tents looking for Bergdahl. We took heavy small-arms and
RPG fire on approach and ran off the CH-47s in contact. Our entire element
engaged the enemy, who turned out to be a Taliban shadow governor and his
bodyguards. . . . Multiple people died that day. . . . All of this happened
because Bergdahl got tired of playing soldier. The remainder of that deployment
was focused on recovery efforts. Countless members of the brigade were wounded,
and we lost good friends, among them PFC Matthew Martinek and 2LT Darryn
Andrews. I have no doubt these great men would be alive if Bergdahl did not
leave.”
In addition to Andrews, Casillas, Fairbairn, and
Martinek, Private First Class Morris Walker and Staff Sergeants Clayton Bowen,
Kurt Curtiss, and Michael Murphrey died as a result of Bergdahl’s abandonment.
That’s eight dead American soldiers (not six, as the rest of the media have
reported) betrayed by selfish Bergdahl and reckless President Obama.
My source did not mince words: “The fact that our
government negotiated with terrorists and our enemy is incomprehensible. The
fact that they exchanged five war criminals for a traitor is sickening. The
worst part for those of us that suffered through that time is that PFC Bergdahl
is being hailed as some kind of hero. He was automatically promoted to
specialist and sergeant, ranks he does not deserve and did not earn. I have no
doubt he will receive back pay for these past five years, a substantial sum.
There will be book deals, and his family are celebrities. I am glad he is safe,
and happy for his family, but he should return home to face a court martial.”
* THIS "SOURCE" MUST GO PUBLIC.
Are you listening, Capitol Hill and America?
The Bowe Bergdahl mess isn’t just a story about one
deserter, but two. There’s the muddle-headed low-life who left his post and
brothers behind. And there’s the corrupt commander-in-chief who has jeopardized
more American soldiers’ lives to “rescue” Bergdahl by bowing to the Taliban,
while snubbing the surviving heroes and the eight dead American soldiers who
lost their lives because of him.
This cannot stand.
* IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IF EVERYTHING WE'VE JUST READ IS
TRUE, IT SHOULD BE EASY TO EXPOSE THAT TRUTH. NEITHER THE GOVERNMENT AS A WHOLE
NOR THE ARMY IS COMPETENT ENOUGH TO COVER-UP ALL THE DOCUMENTATION AND SHUT UP
ALL THE WITNESSES.
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