A NATO War Dog Is The Taliban's Newest Hostage -- Rebecca Frankel, Passport/Foreign Policy
Early Thursday morning, Taliban forces in Afghanistan released a video proving, it claimed, that the militants had captured a U.S. military dog. The footage shows a group of bearded men holding up machine guns and standing around a brown dog tied to a length of chain.
The BBC's David Lyon had one of the earlier reports detailing the Taliban's claim that they had captured the dog -- allegedly named "Colonel" -- after a night raid which, among other alleged triumphs, netted weapons "of a type frequently used by American special forces."
Headlines and Twitter chatter furiously repeated the news: The Taliban has a U.S. war dog.
But about midday Thursday, Military Times reporter Jeff Schogol, after doing some admirable digging, revealed that the dog seen in the footage was in fact not part of the U.S. military -- but rather from another NATO force.
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My Comment: Rebecca Frankel's analysis is on the money. Over the years I have had two dogs in my life and my GF has an amazing two year old Rottweiler .... so I can tell by looking at the above video that this dog is not a happy dog.
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