Hmmmmmm indeed...
'I was more afraid of him than the captors': Wife of 'Taliban sympathizer' describes how he 'raped' her while being held hostage in Afghanistan for five years and forced her to have children with him
Caitlan Coleman says husband Joshua Boyle forced her to have children in captivity in Afghanistan
They had three children while being held hostage between 2012 and 2017
Joshua is now on trial in Canada on sexual assault charges which he denies
They were taken hostage after traveling to the region because he wanted to
She said at first he said he wanted to get 'the inside story' of the Taliban
Once in captivity, she says he suddenly 'dropped' any pretense once 'there were no westerners' around to judge him
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She also told how he had gone from claiming to want to get the 'inside story' of the Taliban from a journalistic perspective to sympathizing with the group.
'He believed that the Taliban were misrepresented in the west, that he could get the real story.
'Go places that nobody else could go. Suddenly its like he sort of dropped any pretense of being a pacifist.
'It's like, when we were no longer around westerners, he could sort of drop his neutrality,' she said.
She says he forced her into meeting the people who would kidnap them and that she had no choice but to follow him because he was carrying all their money and passports.
She was six months pregnant at the time and they had been doing a tour of South Asia when he told her in 2012 they were going to 'dip into' Afghanistan.
'He would always tell me, "I think they're misrepresented in the West. I think they're good people. When you meet them, you're gonna see".
And now we know why a woman who was 6 months pregnant was traipsing around Afghanistan.
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'So I saw. And they are, with the exception of my husband, the worst people that I've ever known in my life,' she said.
