Bergdahl Exchange Marked By Surreal Handshake -- Stars and Stripes/McClatchy News
WASHINGTON — Just before Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl slowly walked away from five years as a POW, something remarkable happened.
An American who had come to accompany Bergdahl to freedom reached out and shook the hand of one of Bergdahl’s Taliban captors.
It was a fleeting gesture of forced peace between two forces after almost 13 years of war.
The almost surreal handshake is one of several dramatic glimpses of this late chapter in the long war that played out at dusk Saturday in a rugged patch of eastern Afghanistan. It was contained in video footage released Wednesday by the Taliban and appeared on one of the Afghan insurgents’ websites.
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