To think there's something odd about the couple abducted by the talibans story

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At a very base level she was heavily pregnant and backpacking through taliban occupied Afghanistan?

Agreed.

I think it's bullshit too.

I have to admit thinking the same thing op.

It's all a bit 'Homeland' imo

It's certainly very strange.

Did he say something about being on a pilgrimage? I was in the car and may have misheard.

agree. very weird.

in a clip on the guardian website he describes himself as a pilgrim when we was backpacking back in 2012 with his pregnant wife who is a US citizen.

beyond me why someone would go under these circumstances travelling to one of the most dangerous regions in the world.

He did say pilgrimage. Really odd.

Yep. Previously married to sister of someone in Guantanamo bay. Wtf takes a pregnant wife into a war zone. Prob turn out he was off to join Islamic state. Something went wrong. He can't work out whether he was an aid worker or pilgrim. Also find it disturbing his wife doesn't appear to be saying anything. It would be v interesting to know if ransom demands were made. IS wouldn't have kept quiet about the murder of an infidel child.

He was previously married to the sister of a suspected terrorist who spent time in Guantanamo, and is a sort of self-taught expert on terrorism. Really dodgy and weird. Oh and he apparently refused to get on a plane to the US and insisted on going to Canada instead.

I also read he refused to get on a plane home for some reason.

Odd odd odd.

Yes it's very odd. I don't understand how they managed to have 3 further children whilst being held captive, unless they are the result of rapes but the story reads like they are his. Wouldn't have thought the Taliban, or any kidnappers, would have allowed them to carry on marital relations whilst holding them prisoner. And yes, what on earth were they doing there in the first place?

Anyone who calls themselves a pilgrim is on the slippery slope to being very odd IMO.

Load of crap

There's a lot of talk on American social media that they haven't been rescued, but were "caught" by Pakistani security services/military.

It's very bizarre. I do think they've been held in poor conditions against their will. But I'm suspicious of their intentions of why they went there in the first place. It's all a bit similar to that American soldier who tried to join the Taliban but was captured by them.

If I were in such dire straights I don't think I'd be adding to my family.

I presume he refused to get on the military plane because he was concerned the American authorities would take him and his family to a secure base and question them relentlessly. Which of course they should, because this man is clearly duplicitous.

I call BS. He was there doing something dodgy, and if he went to the US they'd have him detained.

Yup.
Something about this whole story stinks to high heaven.

He can't keep a straight story.
She never speaks.
No one, even the most dedicated aid worker, would take their heavily pg wife into a v dangerous warzone just like that. I know a couple of aid workers who frequently travel to some of the most desperate and war torn countries in the world, and their partners stay firmly at home.
He refused to get on a plane to the US.

Not sure about the Guantanomo thing, because some people incarcerated there IMO were political prisnors, not terrorists- v. naive to believe that everyone there was actually a terrorist, however with the subsequent bizarre choices, I would place money on there being something v v dodgy.

Either he tried to join and it fucked up (or maybe he wasn't kidnapped at all but wanted out) or theres some sort of double agent planting here by someone.

Something doesn’t add up!!

it is all very homeland...

I also read he refused to get on a plane home for some reason.

He wouldn't get on a US plane. Would only go to Canada via the UK. It's been suggested that he is avoiding being interviewed by the US

Does anyone have a link? I haven't heard this story.

In fairness he is Canadian. Who knows if he just wanted to go home and the media are making assumptions?

he also says thy killed his child-didnt seem that upst and why would u hav more in captivity?