Father appeals for release of captured U.S. soldier (Bowe Bergdahl)

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- The father of a U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan nearly two years ago made his first public appeal for his son's release Friday, empathizing with his captors but saying Spc. Bowe Bergdahl "is being exploited."

Robert Bergdahl, who lives in Hailey, Idaho, released a YouTube video recording to address the Taliban and the Haqqani network, an ally of the Taliban that has an extensive presence along the Afghan-Pakistan border. It, too, has fought U.S. forces.

Bergdahl also made direct appeals to the head of the Pakistani Army and the country's intelligence agency.

"We ask for your nation's diligent help to free our son from his captivity," the elder Bergdahl says in remarks to the Pakistani government. "I pray this video be shown to our only son."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/06/afghanistan.hostage.soldier/index.html

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