article_snippet: the Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was brutally beaten, kept chained inside a cage, blindfolded and threatened with execution during U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl five years in captivity, U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has claimed while speaking out for the first time.
article_snippet: The former prisoner of war, who was captured by the Taliban in 2009 and released as part of a controversial prisoner swap last year, detailed U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl imprisonment for the first time in a statement released by U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl lawyer on Wednesday.
article_snippet: U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, pictured two weeks after U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was captured in Afghanistan in 2009, has described U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl brutal living conditions while held captive - including beatings, little light and shackles .
article_snippet: Captivity: Bergdahl, pictured in December 2010, said U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl tried to escape on multiple occasions and once managed to hide for nine days - but U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was always caught and beaten by U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl captors .
article_snippet: U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was later captured by the Taliban and within hours, U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl quickly learned the nature of the people U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl had met.
article_snippet: U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl minders briefly left U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl alone in a village where U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was being interrogated and beaten . for evading questions. '
article_snippet: Some moments after that I believed I had a . chance to run for it and did,' U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl wrote in U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl statement.
article_snippet: U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was tackled near the outskirts of the village by a large . group of men who pummeled U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl with men fists and clubbed U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl .
article_snippet: U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl tried to escape again near the end of U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl first week as a . prisoner, eluding his captors for about 15 minutes, his statement said, but U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl was found and beaten . with a thick rubber hose.
article_snippet: After my first two escape attempts, for about three months I was chained to a bed spread-eagle and blindfolded,' Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl (in white) said. '
article_snippet: Bergdahl said it was not until his muscles began to atrophy .
article_snippet: Eventually Bowe Bergdahl captors stopped chaining Bowe Bergdahl because of 'acute pain' which developed into a 'freezing numbness that continues to the present, as His feet have neuropathy'.
article_snippet: absolutely no understanding of anything that was happening behind the door I was held behind,' Bergdahl said in the statement.
article_snippet: Toward the end of The cage first year in captivity, Bergdahl said .
highlights_snippet: him then released a statement describing him years in captivity - the first time him has spoken out about him imprisonment .
  