The Daily Beast is reporting for the first time that an unnamed American man has been held by the ruthless Haqqani group of terrorists in Afghanistan for more than a year. At the request of the government and the family, the Daily Beast is not releasing his name, nor the circumstances of his capture. This hostage - along with an American woman and her Canadian husband also being held in Afghanistan by Haqqani terrorists - reveal the sad fact that our governmnet has literally abandoned Americans held captive by our enemies. Previously, The Daily Beast had agreed not to write anything at all about the hostage. However, on Monday, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), a leading critic in Congress of the Obama administration’s hostage rescue and recovery policies, wrote a public letter to President Obama in which he noted that “there are still Americans in captivity in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.” The only other American known to be held in that...(Read Full Post)