Taliban since June 30, 2009. A senior administration official said the release of Bergdahl and transfer of the Guantanamo detainees is part of a broader reconciliation framework between the U.S. and the Taliban. U.S. efforts to facilitate reconciliation with the Taliban began in November 2010, and since May 2011 the recovery of Sgt. Bergdahl has been a central element of our reconciliation efforts, the official said. For all that time, our efforts have been coordinated at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Officials said the Taliban signaled to the U.S. in November that they were ready to start new talks on the issue of detainees. After the U.S. received proof that Bergdahl was still alive, indirect talks began, with Qatar sending messages back and forth between the two parties. The talks intensified about a week ago, officials said, resulting in Bergdahls release and the transfer of the Afghan detainees. Questions had arisen about the nature of Bergdahls imprisonment. Some had accused Bergdahl of willingly walking away from his unit, which was deployed in Paktika province in eastern Afghanistan, adjacent to the border with Pakistan. A transcript of radio intercepts, publicly released through Wikileaks, indicates that Bergdahl, then 23, was captured while sitting in a makeshift latrine. We were attacking the post he was sitting, according to a radio intercept of a conversation among insurgents. He had no gun with him. ... They have all (the) Americans, ANA (Afghan National Army), helicopters, the planes are looking for him. Can you guys make a video of him and announce it all over Afghanistan that we have one of the Americans? Rolling Stone magazine quoted emails Bergdahl is said to have sent to his parents that suggest he was disillusioned with Americas mission in Afghanistan, had lost faith in the U.S. Armys mission there, and was considering desertion. Bergdahl told his parents he was ashamed to even be American. Bergdahl, who mailed home boxes containing his uniform and books, also wrote: The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. Bergdahl was captured by men loyal to the Haqqani Network, a militant group based across the border in North Waziristan, Pakistan, reports CBS News Jere van Dyk. The Haqqani network is tied to, but not directly under the control of, Mullah Muhammad Omar, leader of the Afghan Taliban. Bergdahl would have been taken away quickly on narrow paths through steep, rolling mountains and pine forests, through valleys, past small villages, and then down across the unmarked border into Pakistan. The patriarch of the Haqqani Network is Jalaladin Haqqani, who was a U.S. ally in the 1980s, when America supplied his militants with billions of dollars in weaponry to fight the Soviet Union, which had invaded Afghanistan. A U.S. official told CBS News the Guantanamo detainees involved in the swap are as follows: Khairullah Khairkhwa, an early member of the Taliban in 1994, who surrendered to President Hamid Karzais brother just before he was captured in January 2002 and whose most prominent position was as Governor of Herat Province from 1999 to 2001; Mullah Norullah Noori, who served as Governor of Balkh Province in the Taliban regime and played some role in coordinating the fight against the Northern Alliance; Mohammad Fazl who commanded the main force fighting the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in 2001 and served as chief of army staff under the Taliban regime and who was also accused of war crimes during the Afghan civil war in the 1990s; Abdul Haq Wasiq, who was the deputy chief of the Taliban regimes intelligence service and the cousin of the head of the service; and Mohammed Nabi, who was a minor Taliban official in Khost Province. © 2014 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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Now every terrorist of any kind is going to want to grab an American, and NEGOTIATE. FlagShare 1LikeReply Afternoon Delight 1 hour ago @bluharley The Israelis know this WELL. FlagShare LikeReply ConcernedAboutUSA 2 hours ago Welcome home Sgt Bergdahl. Thank you for serving. Kudos to the administration for getting him home (and no, Im no Obama supporter or Bush supporter for that matter, both have made horrific errors in foreign relations.) Wow, in scanning through this board, the defenders of the 5 individuals that belong to the Taliban terrorist group is a bit unsettling to say the least. The Taliban would as soon kill you as look at you. The Taliban is the ENEMY to our way of life. Perhaps the remaining Taliban detainees at Gitmo can be detained at your houses so they can be nice and comfortable. Good luck with that. FlagShare 1LikeReply sallychicago 3 hours ago Good job Mr. President. No matter what good you do, there will be those who continue to criticize. Prisoner swaps are done and have been done over the years. This is nothing new. FlagShare 1LikeReply Afternoon Delight 2 hours ago @sallychicago As it turns out, it was illegal - i.e. against the law. But when has that mattered to His Majesty these past six years... or to any smug, sneering liberal? FlagShare 1LikeReply ConcernedAboutUSA 1 hour ago @Afternoon Delight and I suppose the holding of Sgt Everyday was legal? Hmmm...these 5 TALIBAN were prisoners of war, not petty thieves. I suppose we should have given every German soldier due process during WWII also? Every n. Korean and n Vietnamese too? FlagShare LikeReply Afternoon Delight 1 hour ago @ConcernedAboutUSA @Afternoon Delight Youre missing the point, or you dont care. This was done NOW - w/o the approval of congress (which would have happened anyway, IMO) to get the VA horror stories out of the headlines... and the state-media will now happily oblige. FlagShare 1LikeReply bonzothemonkey 4 hours ago Releasing five prisoners from Guantanamo in exchange for Bergdahl may very well turn into a hornets nest for President Obama just prior to the coming midterm elections. If sometime in the future these five are later traced to being participants in the attacks and deaths of any military personnel, getting Bergdahl released may very well explode in the Democrats faces. Certainly, one things for sure; we know the Teabaggers are getting their stories in line to make just that case. The pictures Ive seen of the five released arent comforting; those are some very hardened, angry guys. FlagShare 1LikeReply sallychicago 3 hours ago @bonzothemonkey oh Shut up! and rejoice for his release. FlagShare 1LikeReply ksmit2 2 hours ago @bonzothemonkey Congratulations to all involved in getting rescuing Mr Bergdahl. The five prisoners exchanged could never come close to inflicting the thousands of casualties Americans suffer each year at the hands of (non terrorist) criminals in our own country. Be glad hes back. It is a big win. FlagShare LikeReply stoidieraslarebil 4 hours ago The way Obama pontificated in the Rose Garden youd think he was out humping the boonies looking for Bergdahl. FlagShare 1LikeReply Rancher721 10 hours ago Left and right BS aside, Welcome home Sgt Bergdahl, Thank you for serving. FlagShare 2LikeReply sully36 11 hours ago Obama needed something to get the VA story off the front page. Glad the young man will come home, but at what cost? The 5 Taliban dudes will be at our throat next week. FlagShare 3LikeReply Rancher721 10 hours ago Yeah, well this is a big flicking deal. I served, but never under fire or as a pow. Back off, welcome the man home already. FlagShare 6LikeReply sweetcakesmaria 9 hours ago @Rancher721 The 5 Taliban dudes was in Afghanistan their country in which we invaded. If we get the hell out of their country, there wont be any Americans there for them to capture. We need to bring all of our troops home from that hell hole and let the people of Afghanistan determine their own fate. FlagShare 3LikeReply bonzothemonkey 3 hours ago @sweetcakesmaria Afghanistan has always been and probably always will continue being one of the poorest countries in the world. Prior to our involvement they beat the Russians just like theyve done over the last decade with us. Billions of dollars have been wasted and thousands of American lives lost and what good has it done? We need to rethink our whole strategy of being the caretaker of the world. The only result is that we are more hated around the world now than at any time in history! FlagShare 2LikeReply iuyyyui 13 hours ago 99% of the time, lefties spit on the military, or ask ... What Now Does It Matter? (SEE: Benghazi) ... ESPECIALLY when the guys are dead, dead, dead. But here, with this weird and bizarre family, with a kid who wrote home how ashamed he was to be an American, and how life was too short to be wasting time on (the U.S. militarys) lies, and with a father who has Gone Native, babbling to his son in Pashto (yeah, sure, like the son forgot so much English ... the first thing he wrote was S.F. ... apparently he knows enough English for acronyms)... ...now the Left is going bananas with I Love the Military!. What absolute lies. The kids a deserter, his fathers a Jimmy-Carter-esque Gone Native type that just wants to sniff Palestinian (or Pashtun) women, and Obama bypassed Congress to give up 5 high-value Taliban Leaders (dont be fooled by all that detainee nomenclature). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FlagShare 2LikeReply Javafutter 13 hours ago @iuyyyui WHAT EVIDENCE DO YOU HAVE OF ANY OF THESE RIDICULOUS ACCUSATIONS? dID YOU KNOW THAT IN fEBRUARY THE rEPUBLICANS VOTED DOWN ADDING 27 NEW CLINICS FOR SOLDIERS? dID YOU KNOW THE rEPUBLICANS BLOCKED TAX CREDITS FOR BUSINESSES WHO HIRE VETS? dID YOU KNOW THAT THEY SLASHED HEALTH BENEFITS FOR VETERANS AS THE IRAQ WAR WAS RAGING? DONT YOU GET IT. lIBERALS GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE SOLDIERS AND RIGHT WINGERS SEE THEM AS PAWNS. FlagShare 2LikeReply iuyyyui 12 hours ago Your all-caps makes what you write ... all true. Never mind your award-winning druggie magazine, Rolling Stone. In any event, time for you, too, to go grow a Muslim Beard and accidentally wander into the arms of your Taliban buds, I guess. I suggest: downtown Brooklyn (Atlantic Avenue), or, Dearborn, Michigan. Theyre all there, waiting for you! FlagShare 3LikeReply thechooch1 3 hours ago @iuyyyui Dude it wasnt the Democrats that sent us into Iraq for some unknown reason and claiming the non-existant WMDs. FlagShare 1LikeReply MystiqueH 2 hours ago @thechooch1 @iuyyyui Hillary, Bill Clinton, Al Gore ,Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (under Bill Clinton) Former National security adviser Sandy Berber under Bill Clinton and many other prominent Democrats all said Saddam Hussein have WMDs and urged and financed Bush to go to War with Iraq .... besides it was a coalition of many countries backed by UN resolutions that Saddam Hussein ignored ...with full bipartisan support from both houses of Congress. Democrats voted to fund the war every year.... Dude it WAS Democrats that voted to send us in Iraq.... The UN, long with The UK, France, Australia, Germany etc.backed Bush. Hillary voted to approve military action in Iraq . . she also voted with Bushes Democrat controlled Congress every year to fund the WAR . . FlagShare LikeReply knsn_for_cmn_sense 53 minutes ago @MystiqueH @thechooch1 @iuyyyui Republican house, Senate and President. Who cares what 6 idiot Democrats thought. FlagShare LikeReply nomomoney2 13 hours ago America Wins and gets back a POW no matter what Obama has done. Other people worked this out and made the arrangement. Now will he make any effort to get our Marine out of Mexico that made a wrong turn, a traffic infraction and ended up in jail? Will he try to get other Americans out of our friendly governments that we give aid to. Hell no, he is only a political blow bag of lies and tries to take credit for things he had no dealing with. FlagShare 2LikeReply Afternoon Delight 13 hours ago Why not just do for the jihadis in Club Gitmo what is being done for the millions upon millions of future democrat voters (i.e. illegal aliens)? Just let them ALL out. Give them free housing in Washington D.C.... SERIOUSLY. FlagShare 2LikeReply searingtruth 14 hours ago Wow. Since Obama was elected Republicans hate it even when America wins. ST Its not whose God is greatest. Its whose love is. SearingTruth A Future of the Brave FlagShare 1LikeReply calif7 14 hours ago Thank God we have a President engaged in whats going on in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unlike the previous tandem of Cheney/Bush, who never met a war their pocketbooks didnt like and didnt care where Bin Laden was, the man is doing the right thing. To bad the GOP killed additional funding for the VA back in February. Never in our history has a President had to deal with so much negative push back for all the wrong reasons. Makes us wonder what side his detractors are really on? FlagShare 5LikeReply nomomoney2 13 hours ago @calif7 You seriously need to dig past the news media to find out whats really going on. Also, You are so totally messed up, completely blinded by the Democratic BS, or you are Fool. Become an independent and stop listening to the BS that comes from the political few in Washington DC. They feed weak minded people what they want them to believe , mostly fantasy, no matter what it is in order to keep you in place and have you believe that all is well. Look at the surging economy: and all the jobs that are reported to have happened. Now look around and ask who got hired, why are shopping centers still half empty, why are Americans still on unemployment. Where did the jobs go, overseas thats were and it is not just the REpublicans that do it. Dont believe any figures coming out of Washington DC, they are lies to support the current administration, no matter what party is in office. FlagShare 2LikeReply sweetcakesmaria 10 hours ago @nomomoney2 I am an Independent and most everything CALIF7 said is accurate. Obama was handed a mess that he has struggled to fix without almost zero help from Republicans in Congress. Republican politicians are working hard day and night to make sure that the Obama administration fails. I thought that after 9/11, Americans had a common enemy in Al Qaida but with the actions of Republicans in Congress, you have to wonder which group want the destruction of America more. FlagShare 1LikeReply joelweymouth 9 hours ago @sweetcakesmaria @nomomoney2 The Democrats had control of both houses for the first two years of his administration, so dont blame the Republicans - Obama made the mess worse. Remember, that the Dems had a fillibuster proof Senate also. Fact 1 out of 8 men are not working. They are not in the unemployement rate because they are no longer counted. You can bet that rate is HIGHER for Women and for Blacks. This president has been a disaster and it has been covered up by the media and ignored by kool-aid drinkers of America. America is destroyed toots. Companies are sending technical jobs now overseas, not just manufacturing. One company that is handling most of the Health Care in this country has sent 80% of all jobs to India. And this company LOVES Obama and was and is a big supporter of the ACA. you are entitled to your opinion, but not to your own version of the facts. FlagShare 2LikeReply arkajun-2009 14 hours ago One of our GIs worth 5 of theirs. You bet, anytime FlagShare LikeReply hermitdave 15 hours ago THINK ABOUT THIS A Poem By Old Hermit Dave Here is something Conspiracy Nuts understand Ignorant masses give the official version a HAND Country holds guy from a Country that attacked them Country that attacked them holds W/O charges men After several years both sides make a deal Attacker makes a deal, 5 innocents for 1 real This is all part of the FAKE War on Terror Based on Religious Story’s without error Super Power Countries attack a defenseless Country Based on many stories full of LIES to put it bluntly Americas longest War changed its Freedom Latitude Now to Fly they are assumed to be evil Terror Dudes Now we are told to fear all events crazy and bizarre But to never ask if its founders of the first FAKE War If a God protected us from our protectors Super Rich Gods, not be GREED erectors FlagShare 1LikeReply nomomoney2 13 hours ago @hermitdave More like a statement than a poem. FlagShare LikeReply quincytodd 13 hours ago @hermitdave Well said, hermitdave. Thank you. FlagShare LikeReply MikeRLee 15 hours ago Now Go And Bomb The Forking Shidd Oout Of Them. FlagShare LikeReply quincytodd 13 hours ago @MikeRLee Spoken like a true hateful, lame-brained Tea Partier. Are you really that ignorant or are you simply trying to be funny here? FlagShare 1LikeReply nolongerdem 15 hours ago So this administration has no problem negotiating with terrorists and the Americans on these blogs think it is a great idea. FlagShare 2LikeReply sweetcakesmaria 10 hours ago @nolongerdem If you think the Taliban are terrorists, then youre in dire need of a history lesson. We invaded Afghanistan which happens to be the home of the Taliban. So who is terrorizing who. America went into Afghanistan chasing after members of Al Qaida, the group that caused 9/11. So it really doesnt work to label the people of Afghanistan terrorists when we are the ones that is guilty of invading their country. FlagShare LikeReply joelweymouth 9 hours ago @sweetcakesmaria @nolongerdem So I take it you like women to be stoned if they are raped, decapitated if they learn to read. They were the place where Bin Laden planned and gave protection to Bin Laden. FlagShare 2LikeReply quincytodd 15 hours ago This the third thing Barack Obama did right since he assumed the Presidency, the other two being the $787B stimulus and Obamacare. An American is free and for five Afghans, their suffering is finally over. FlagShare 1LikeReply OnTheCrown 14 hours ago @quincytodd Why are we still at war? FlagShare 2LikeReply Afternoon Delight 13 hours ago @OnTheCrown @quincytodd Islam. Better get used to it... FlagShare 2LikeReply nomomoney2 13 hours ago @Afternoon Delight @OnTheCrown @quincytodd They are on their way. The took over France, Denmark, Germany, England, Netherlands, most of Africa. The are on their way here and the next war will be ON American Soil. FlagShare 3LikeReply This comment has been deleted GTO0814 15 hours ago @Millyanderson78945 Get out and take your spam with you, go play on TMZ or whatever rag you idiots like to tag FlagShare LikeReply Uncle_D_Florida 15 hours ago I looked up the first two terrorists. There is no report of them harming any U.S. citizen or soldier. They did crimes against Afghani civilians, and should have been sent back to Afghanistan for trial. With no evidence of any crimes against the U.S.,they have been held in indefinite detention for who knows-5-8-10 years. Our system of Justice used to be better than this. FlagShare 2LikeReply pitai 15 hours ago @Uncle_D_Florida It didnt take much to be labelled a Taliban after 9/11....or a terrorist. I understand the context but abuses were done, no doubt in Afghanistan where one clan would sell another clan member for $$$$$$$$$$$$ by labelling him a Taliban. Im not saying these latest 5 were innocents as I dont know their personnal history but it very well documented that abuses occurs in the feverist time after 9/11. As for the the soldier releases, well learn more in the future and I thank President Obama for his action. FlagShare 1LikeReply This comment has been deleted GTO0814 15 hours ago @Millyanderson78945 This is not the site for your silly games, take this crap out of here and go play in the street. FlagShare LikeReply bsimmons69 16 hours ago Piss poorly written article with a single intent of provoking critical comments. Just one small step away from being a genuine British tabloid. FlagShare 1LikeReply TomD65 16 hours ago Welcome home, soldier. FlagShare 5LikeReply earthling_1929 16 hours ago another item to add to the hissing list of the GOPPERS. hiss..hiss..spit..spit..ben ghazi!! hiss..hiss..spit..spit.. obamacare!! hiss..hiss..spit..spit..Bergdahl!! no relavent comment, just hiss..hiss..spit..spit..(insert hissing list item)!! 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