Bergdahl’s family receives death threats

The parents of Bowe Bergdahl, the US soldier freed from Taliban captivity, has received death threats after hawks in the United States launched an offensive on the character of Bergdahl and his family.

Jeff Gunter, the police chief of Hailey in Idaho state, said on Saturday that the first of the death threats sent to Bob Bergdahl, the soldier’s father, at his home near the city of Hailey was received on Wednesday.

“There were four specific emails with death threats given to the FBI and they are looking into it,” Gunter said.

Authorities are providing security to Bob Bergdahl and his wife, Jani, who also received similar email threats.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Saturday that it was investigating the threats.

“We are working jointly with our state and local partners and taking each threat seriously,” FBI Special Agent William Facer stated.

Bergdahl’s release after being held for nearly five years in Afghanistan raised hue and cry in the United States after some of his former colleagues charged that he was captured in 2009 after deserting his post.

Bergdahl’s some emails published by US media show that the soldier got disillusioned with the US-led war on the people of Afghanistan and was struggling with his conscience and that his father told him to follow his conscience and leave the army.

Bergdahl was believed to be taken into Pakistan shortly after his unit at a US Army outpost in eastern Afghanistan discovered he was missing on June 30, 2009.

Some US media hawks also slammed Bob Bergdahl for sporting a long beard and speaking Arabic and Pashto languages, spreading news that he might have embraced Islam