Flag this taliban video making fun of U.S. captive

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December 25, 2009
Taliban Release Hostage Video of Pfc. Bowe Robert Bergdahl

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We have located the video and are working on getting a copy.

Meanwhile CNN has this up:

    Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The Taliban has released a new video that purportedly shows an American soldier captured in Afghanistan last summer.

    Pfc. Bowe Robert Bergdahl, 23, disappeared from his combat outpost in southeastern Paktika province sometime after he finished his guard duty shift on the night of June 29.

    The identity of the man in the latest video has not yet been confirmed. But the man, who is wearing U.S. Army combat fatigues stripped of the name tag and rank, identifies himself as Bergdahl.

Update

http://www.youtube.com/user/dilberjan1

If you're not a hostage of the Taliban this Christmas day, you owe it to Mr. Bergdahl to go to YouTube and smack that account and those videos down.

Update II: Aaron tracks the release here. 



hers is more about this video 



http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006710.html 







Merry Christmas, Private Bergdahl

Private Bergdahl - assuming he's still alive - is spending Christmas as a captive of the Taliban.

His captors spent the last day or two uploading a video showing Private Bergdahl reading a statement.

The video was divided into four segments and uploaded to YouTube on 25 December 2009. The YouTube account is:

http://www.youtube.com/user/dilberjan1

The YouTube video was embedded on the Taliban's al-Somod site. The site has multiple domain names and can also be found here:

http://124.217.252.55/~alsomo2/index.php

The movie was divided into 6 .rar segments named englishmovie.part1.rar, englishmovie.part2.rar etc.

The movie was also released in multiple sizes, e.g.

English-movie.rmvb 260 MB

English-Movie-Medium.wmv 140 MB

English-movie-low.wmv 70 MB

English-movie3gp.3gp 44 MB

Do you really think they uploaded all those files to all those places via proxy servers?

It is significant that the forum most closely associated with the release of this video was the English-language Ansar al-Mujahideen site, as opposed to any of the Arabic forums. The thread related to the release of the video is here:

http://www.ansarnet.info/showthread.php?t=17428

Of those ansarnet.info users posting links related to the video, user "haneef" (user id 1898) is the individual most likely associated with those who produced and distributed the video.

http://www.ansarnet.info/showpost.php?p=56757&postcount=1
user "haneef"
http://www.ansarnet.info/member.php?u=1898

Other users and posts of note at ansarnet.info:

Post 4 is from "Abu-Ahmed" and features the screenshots:

http://www.ansarnet.info/showpost.php?p=56773&postcount=4
http://www.ansarnet.info/member.php?u=161

Note that he made the screen shots from a version of the video he downloaded from one of the links provided by "haneef".

Post 5 from "Ansar 007" is a copy of the data as presented at al-Somod:

http://www.ansarnet.info/showpost.php?p=56785&postcount=5
http://www.ansarnet.info/member.php?u=54

ansarnet.info user "Binyamine" contributed nothing original or of value here. He struggled to convert the .rmvb file to .flv when the video was already available by .flv on YouTube.

Also noteworthy is how the jihadis have fumbled the handling of what really ought to be a propaganda victory of major proportions. The Arabic forums are at best only dimly aware of the video's release. Christmas comes one time a year, they have an honest-to-goodness Crusader in their clutches, and they're slacking when they ought to be plastering this video all over the Internet. If there's a bright side to this event, that's it.

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