Caitlan Coleman, who was pregnant when the Taliban grabbed her and her Canadian born husband Joshua Boyle sent at least two videos out last year, begging the US Government to help get them freed for Taliban captivity in Afghanistan. Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle were taken hostage by the Taliban in 2012, while Caitlan Coleman was pregnant. If she is still alive and delivered her baby, that means Obama’s new peace partners also have an infant as a hostage.
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| Caitlan Coleman and husband sent videos to family begging for help and release from Taliban last year |
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The family of a pregnant American woman who went missing in Afghanistan in late 2012 with her Canadian husband received two videos last year in which the couple asked the U.S. government to help free them from Taliban captors, The Associated Press has learned.
The videos offer the first and only clues about what happened to Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle after they lost touch with their families 20 months ago while traveling in a mountainous region near the capital, Kabul. U.S. law enforcement officials investigating the couple’s disappearance consider the videos authentic but say they hold limited investigative value since it’s not clear when or where they were made.
The video files, which were provided to the AP, were emailed to Coleman’s father last July and September by an Afghan man who identified himself as having ties to the Taliban but who has been out of contact for several months. In one, a subdued Coleman — dressed in a conservative black garment that covers all but her face— appeals to “my president, Barack Obama” for help.
“I would ask that my family and my government do everything that they can to bring my husband, child and I to safety and freedom,” the 28-year-old says in the other recording, talking into a wobbly camera while seated beside her husband, whose beard is long and untrimmed.