reporting finding while he was held by the taliban bergdahl converted to islam, declared himself a mujahadeen, which is arabic, for a warrior for allah. and a lot more information in this too. good morning, everybody, i'm bill hemmer as we continue to peel away this story her life in "america's newsroom.." how are you doing. >> i'm in for martha today. fox news obtaining secret documents show sergeant bergdahl escaped for several days. his relationship with his captors morphed over time from a prisoner locked in a metal cage to playing soccer with militants. bill: that is the surface of this. james rosen has been way out in front. good morning to you. you put together a detailed timeline of bergdahl's five years in captivity and from that timeline what have you learned about it? >> reporter: bill, good morning. these are real time dispatches from a pentagon subcontractor called the eclipse group a private intelligence firm previously retained for example by "the new york times" to help find a "times" reporter held hostage in pack stage. thesesy reps offer our east detailed view of sergeant be

the afghan taliban out with a statement hailing the release, calling it victory for jihad its and mujahadeen already enables them to raise additional funds to help their cause in pakistan, afghanistan and elsewhere. i think this will be a huge problem. there is very little likely that they will kept off the battlefield. on the another network this morning, mike cat lighter thought it was very, very likely they will be back within battle within a year. that has to be troubling for anybody who is fighting against the taliban or who is directing our efforts against al qaeda more broadly. bill: you herd from jay carney. susan rice was out yesterday. the administration said we had to move, health for bowe bergdahl and time. mike rogers nude knew about the ubl raid months in advance. he was in the loop. how does the administration handle these questions? >> they will have to answer them in a forthright manner although i don't expect they will do so. we'll have to learn more about the status of bowe bergdahl's health in recent days. the administration has been working for three years in the release

bin laden saw himself as mujahadeen, somebody who was going to renew the religion, right? he also saw himself as a revival ist, in other words, of the religion in addition to a great leader of jihad and his vision was he alone, amongst all of humanity understood the true version of islam and he was going to impose that version of islam on people whether they wanted it or not. we've seen what that looks like in places like iraq and anbar province, for instance and northern mali or somalia where it has been rejected. but in any case, his vision of going back to the original islam, and he was making this up as he went along, in some ways reminds one of the reformation in europe. so if bin laden is sort of like, and please if there are any lutherance in the resume don't take this, if bin laden is calvin or luther what role do we play? we're the ottoman empire. that is who we are. we are people with conflicting relationship with this part of world and people who are not trusted and looked at a little bit askance, right? we're trying to make an argument to the pope that we can s

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