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Former hostage Joshua Boyle says the Haqqani network in Afghanistan killed his infant daughter and raped his American wife during the five years they were held in captivity._ --- Jul 27, 2023 10:47 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [How an Israeli Raid Freed Four Hostages and Killed at Least 274 Palestinians](/video/HlBhRrzj/) ### How an Israeli Raid Freed Four Hostages and Killed at Least 274 Palestinians [Israel Says Two Americans Held Hostage by Hamas, a Mother and Daughter, Have Been Released](/video/7YqCkat5/) ### Israel Says Two Americans Held Hostage by Hamas, a Mother and Daughter, Have Been Released [Man Allegedly Kills Wife Who He Had Previously Held Hostage](/video/PR0saIVu/) ### Man Allegedly Kills Wife Who He Had Previously Held Hostage --- ## Transcript No mistakes. Obviously it will be of incredible importance to my family that were able to build a secured sanctuary for our free surviving children, to call a home, to focus on identification and to try to regain some portion of the childhood that they have lost. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] I was in Afghanistan. Helping the most neglected minority group in the world, those ordinary villagers who live deep inside Taliban controlled Afghanistan, where no NGO, no aid worker and no government has ever successfully been able to bring the necessary help. The stupidity and the evil of the Haqqani network's kidnapping of a pilgrim, and his heavily pregnant wife, engaged in helping ordinary villagers in Taliban controlled regions of Afghanistan, was eclipsed only by the stupidity and evil of authorising the murder of my infant daughter. Martyr Boyle. As retaliation for my repeated refusal to accept an offer that the criminal miscreants of the Haqqani network had made to me and the stupidity and evil of the subsequent rape of my wife Not as a lone action by one guard, but assisted by the captain of the guard and supervised by the Commandant Abuhaja of the Haqqani Network. God willing, this litany of stupidity will be the epitaph of the Haqqani Network. Sic semper tyrannis. At this point, my family is asking the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Who has already carried out an investigation last year and conceded that these crimes were perpetrated by the [ UNKNOWN ] network in 2014 against my family, to provide my family the justice that we are owed. I certainly do not intend to allow a brutal and sacrilegious gang of criminal miscreants To dictate the future direction of my family nor to weaken my family's commitment to do the right thing no matter the cost. In the final analysis it is the intentions of our actions not their consequences on which we shall all eventually be judged. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] What's it like to be back? How do you feel to be back? How do you feel to be back? ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Freed Hostage Says Haqqani Kidnappers Killed His Infant Daughter","description":"Former hostage Joshua Boyle says the Haqqani network in Afghanistan killed his infant daughter and raped his American wife during the five years they were held in captivity.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/51kqvGqh/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-10-14T14:28:47.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/51kqvGqh.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/51kqvGqh/","duration":"PT2M25S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/51kqvGqh/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```