Washington: The Taliban has released a new
video of US soldier Bowe Bergdahl captured last year in
Afghanistan, calling for his exchange for Taliban prisoners,
the IntelCenter monitoring service said on Thursday.
The nearly eight-minute-long video showed Bergdahl, in
a beard and wearing an army jacket, reading a newspaper and
doing pushups, the service said.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid is heard at the
end of the video making a statement, with English subtitles,
reiterating Taliban demands for the release "a limited number
of prisoners in exchange for this American prisoner."
"Unfortunately, the arrogant American rulers are not
ready to take any step in this regard," it said, according to
IntelCenter.
Bergdahl was captured June 30, 2009. The Taliban has
already released two earlier videos showing him to be alive.
PTI
