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Joshua Boyle, seen in 2009, has been missing in Afghanistan since October with his pregnant American wife, Caitlan Coleman. Boyle has described himself as a research fanatic. He was briefly married to Zaynab Khadr several years ago and served as a "spokesperson" for the Khadr family.
By: Michelle Shephard and Jessica McDiarmid Published on Mon Dec 31 2012
Joshua Boyle and Caitlan Coleman had been friends since they were teenagers, meeting online through a shared passion for Star Wars movies.
When they were married in 2011, bureaucracy kept them living apart, so they decided to spend time travelling until their residency problems could be resolved.
That quest for adventure may have driven the 29-year-old Canadian and his pregnant American wife into the hostile Afghan region, where they have now mysteriously disappe...
It is now feared the young couple, who did not come home by early December as planned, may have been kidnapped. However, no demands for ransom have been made.
Worried about Coleman’s health, their parents have broken their silence to issue public pleas.
“We are all anxiously awaiting some word on their well-being or whereabouts and are constantly praying for their safe return,” Boyle’s parents Linda and Patrick wrote to the Star in an email Monday night.
“We have not been contacted by anyone claiming to have them or seen them since early October, when there were local reports of a kidnapping in the region.”
Canadians may remember Boyle as the former husband of Zaynab Khadr, the once outspoken sister of Omar Khadr who spent a decade in Guantanamo Bay before his transfer to Canadian custody this fall.
Their marriage lasted a year, ending in early 2010. A year later, Boyle married Coleman.
“Unaware of the difficult residence and work issues upon a Canadian and American marrying, they planned a series of lengthy travels for 2 years before settling down to family life,” Boyle’s parents said.
A photo of Boyle and Khadr from 2009.
Media coverage of the disappearance of an American/Canadian couple in Afghanistan has so far left out an important detail: the identity of the husband, identified in the American press simply as “Josh” because of his wife Caitlan Coleman’s family wish to protect his privacy.
Now Canadian media outlets have named Josh as Joshua Boyle, and his real identity throws a new and strange element into the story: Boyle’s ex-wife is Zainab Khadr, whose father has been linked to Al-Qaeda and whose brother, Omar Khadr, the only Canadian citizen ever held in Guantanamo Bay.
“Canadians may remember Boyle as the former husband of Zaynab Khadr, the once outspoken sister of Omar Khadr who spent a decade in Guantanamo Bay before his transfer to Canadian custody this fall,” the Toronto Star wrote on Dec. 31when the news of the couples’ disappearance broke.
“He later worked as a Khadr family ‘spokesperson’ — helping organize Zaynab Khadr’s Parliament Hill hunger strike in the fall of 2008 to raise awareness of her brother’s case in Guantanamo,” the article continues. This chart from The Globe and Mail maps out the connections between the Khadr and Boyle families.
Zainab Khadr was also the subject of some controversy for statements she made in 2004 in a documentary about her brother that seemed to support the 9/11 attacks.
Boyle and Khadr were married for about a year and divorced in 2010; the marriage to Coleman is his second. Coleman was pregnant at the time of their disappearance and is due to deliver the baby this month; the couple are thought to have been kidnapped in Wardak province, in southern Afghanistan.
Khadr’s father, Ahmed, who died in 2003 near the Afghanistan border, is alleged to have been an associate of Osama bin Laden; the family moved from Pakistan to Afghanistan in 1996, before emigrating to Canada. As a teenager, Omar was trained among militants in Afghanistan and was captured in a firefight between U.S. and Afghan forces, and subsequently sent to Guantanamo. His sister Zainab became an outspoken activist on his behalf. The case was closely followed in Canada, up to Omar’s return to being detained in that country in 2012.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The family of a pregnant American woman who went missing in Afghanistan in late 2012 with her Canadian husband received two videos last year in which the couple asked the U.S. government to help free them from Taliban captors, The Associated Press has learned.
The videos offer the first and only clues about what happened to Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle after they lost touch with their families 20 months ago while traveling in a mountainous region near the capital, Kabul. U.S. law enforcement officials investigating the couple's disappearance consider the videos authentic but say they hold limited investigative value since it's not clear when or where they were made.
The video files, which were provided to the AP, were emailed to Coleman's father last July and September by an Afghan man who identified himself as having ties to the Taliban but who has been out of contact for several months. In one, a subdued Coleman — dressed in a conservative black garment that covers all but her face— appeals to "my president, Barack Obama" for help.
"I would ask that my family and my government do everything that they can to bring my husband, child and I to safety and freedom," the 28-year-old says in the other recording, talking into a wobbly camera while seated beside her husband, whose beard is long and untrimmed.
The families decided to make the videos public now, in light of the publicity surrounding the weekend rescue of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was freed from Taliban custody in exchange for the release of five high-level Taliban suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The families say they are disappointed that their children and grandchild were not freed as part of the same deal but are still holding out hope for the U.S. and Canadian governments to secure their release on humanitarian grounds.
"It would be no more appropriate to have our government turn their backs on their citizens than to turn their backs on those who serve," Patrick Boyle, a Canadian judge and the father of Joshua Boyle, said in a telephone interview.
This frame grab from video provided by the Coleman family shows Caitlan Coleman and Joshua Boyle. Th …
Republicans in Congress have criticized the Bergdahl agreement and complained about not being consulted, though Obama has defended it, citing a "sacred" obligation to not leave men and women in uniform behind. Rep. Duncan Hunter, of California, asked Obama in a letter this week why other Americans still in the custody of Afghan militants were not included in the negotiation. The families say their children, though without political or military ties to the government, are prisoners just as Bergdahl was and should be recognized as "innocent tourists" and not penalized further for venturing into dangerous territory.
"They really and truly believed that if people were loved and treated with respect that that would be given back to them in kind," said Linda Boyle, Boyle's mother. "So as odd it as it may seem to us that they were there, they truly believed with all their heart that if they treated people properly, they would be treated properly."
Relatives describe the couple, who wed in 2011 after meeting online, as well-intentioned but naive adventure seekers.
They once spent months traveling through Latin America, where they lived among indigenous Guatemalans and where Boyle grew a long beard that led some children to call him "Santa Claus." The couple set off again in the summer of 2012 for a journey that took them to Russia, the central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and then finally to Afghanistan. With plans to return home in December ahead of Coleman's due date, they checked in regularly via email during their travels — expressing in their writings an awareness of the perils they faced — and toured the region, staying in hostels and their tent.
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