Man held hostage by Taliban for five years assumed captors were joking when they said Trump was President
A Canadian man who was recently rescued from Taliban-tied kidnappers thought his captors were joking when they told him Donald Trump is president.
“It didn’t enter my mind that he was being serious,” Joshua Boyle, who was rescued alongside his wife and three children in Pakistan after five years imprisonment, told the Toronto Star.
Mr Boyle was surprised to hear that Mr Trump had been elected even before he and his wife were forced to film a “proof-of-life” video that was sent to investigators and their family.
The Canadian was kidnapped by the Haqqani network in the summer of 2012 along his American wife, Caitlan Coleman. Ms Coleman was pregnant with their first child when they were captured, and the couple had two other children while in captivity.
The couple were hiking in Afghanistan at the time, on a backpacking trip that took them on an ambitious track from Russia, through several central Asian countries, and into Afghanistan. The couple, who have been described as avid adventurists, had acknowledged in emails to family that they knew the trip was dangerous.
They were rescued last week after a dramatic car chase near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. After US drones hovering near the structures where they were being held, their captors stuffed the couple and their children into the trunk of a car to move them.
Man held hostage by Taliban for five years assumed captors were joking when they said Trump was President | The Independent
A Canadian man who was recently rescued from Taliban-tied kidnappers thought his captors were joking when they told him Donald Trump is president.
“It didn’t enter my mind that he was being serious,” Joshua Boyle, who was rescued alongside his wife and three children in Pakistan after five years imprisonment, told the Toronto Star.
Mr Boyle was surprised to hear that Mr Trump had been elected even before he and his wife were forced to film a “proof-of-life” video that was sent to investigators and their family.
The Canadian was kidnapped by the Haqqani network in the summer of 2012 along his American wife, Caitlan Coleman. Ms Coleman was pregnant with their first child when they were captured, and the couple had two other children while in captivity.
The couple were hiking in Afghanistan at the time, on a backpacking trip that took them on an ambitious track from Russia, through several central Asian countries, and into Afghanistan. The couple, who have been described as avid adventurists, had acknowledged in emails to family that they knew the trip was dangerous.
They were rescued last week after a dramatic car chase near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. After US drones hovering near the structures where they were being held, their captors stuffed the couple and their children into the trunk of a car to move them.
Man held hostage by Taliban for five years assumed captors were joking when they said Trump was President | The Independent
