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| Bowe Bergdahl pleads guilty to desertion after being captured by Taliban | Bowe Bergdahl pleads guilty to desertion after being captured by Taliban |
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| US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl - who was held hostage by the Taliban for five years after going missing from his post in Afghanistan - has pleaded guilty to desertion. | US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl - who was held hostage by the Taliban for five years after going missing from his post in Afghanistan - has pleaded guilty to desertion. |
| The 31-year-old, who disappeared from a remote combat outpost in the summer of 2009 and was called “a traitor” by Donald Trump, also pleaded guilty to a charge of misbehaviour before the enemy. | |
| Bergdahl’s lawyer at the military hearing at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, said the defence and prosecution had not been able to agree to a so-called stipulation of facts in the case. | |
| The Associated Press said this was a likely indication that they had been unable to come to an agreement about his term of punishment. | |
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