Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Seen Smiling With Taliban Leader In New Twitter Pic

Bergdahl, now back in the United States and undergoing psychiatric counseling in Texas, is seen wearing a white shirt, smiling and looking slightly emaciated in the photograph. Standing next to him, with his arm around the P.O.W., is Haqqani. He, too, is smiling, one eyebrow slightly raised. Haqqani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in August 2012, meaning the photograph is at least almost two years old. Bergdahl was captured by the Taliban in June 2009 after walking away from his base in eastern Afghanistan. He was freed nearly five years later in a prisoner exchange for five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay, creating a furor in the United States. Some soldiers and politicians had called him a deserter, while others have urged the country to wait for the facts to come out.