Answers desperately needed in Boyle kidnapping saga

Joshua Boyle wants to know what went wrong during his purported humanitarian mission in Afghanistan that he considered to be so safe he brought along his very pregnant wife, despite admittedly diving deep into 'enemy' territory.But Angelo Persichilli writes that he wants to know why Mr. Boyle felt safe in the country and who was supposed to protect him there?

Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan. Questions continue to emerge on why Canadian Joshua Boyle travelled deep into Afghanistan territory controlled by the Taliban along with his very pregnant wife, American Caitlan Coleman, some five years ago, after the couple and their three children were freed from their Taliban-linked kidnappers earlier this month. Carl Montgomery/Wikimedia photograph

Opinion

BY ANGELO PERSICHILLI

October 20, 2017

“Taking your pregnant wife to a very dangerous place, to me, and the kind of person I am, is unconscionable.” This statement to ABC News comes from Jim Coleman, the father of American Caitlan Coleman, who alongside her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle were kidnapped in Afghanistan some five years ...

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