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October 13, 2017

Canadian Hostage Freed in Pakistan Says Captors Killed Their Infant

An American woman and her family who was freed from the custody of a Taliban-linked group in Pakistan arrived in Canada Friday, and her husband said the insurgent group killed their infant daughter during the five years they were held hostage.


Caitlan Coleman, who was pregnant when she and her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle were kidnapped by militants while in Afghanistan in late 2012, landed in Toronto after flying from London.
Boyle told reporters that they were in Afghanistan to help minorities persecuted under Taliban rule.
"The stupidity and the evil of the Haqqani Network's kidnapping of a pilgrim, and his heavily pregnant wife, engaged in helping ordinary villagers in Taliban-controlled regions of Afghanistan, was eclipsed only by the stupidity and evil of authorizing the murder of my infant daughter," Boyle said.
He said the murder was carried out "as retaliation for my repeated refusal to accept an offer that the criminal miscreants of the Haqqani Network had made to me." He also said his wife was subsequently raped by a guard.
"God willing, this litany of stupidity will be the epitaph of the Haqqani Network," he said. "Sic semper tyrannis." His statement suggested the crimes occurred in 2014.

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