The exchange of five Taliban militants for the freedom of one US soldier has caused a row in the US Congress .<br /><br />The five Guantanamo detainees, who have now been transferred to Qatar, have been described by Republicans as “ high risk people” and the president as “negotiating with terrorists”.<br /><br />It’s something US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has denied:<br /><br />“We didn’t negotiate with terrorists. As I explained before, Sgt Bergdahl is a prisoner of war. That’s a normal process in getting your prisoners back.”<br /><br />Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is now in a US military hospital in Germany after being held for nearly five years in Afghanistan.<br /><br />His delighted parents realise it is going to take time for their son to readjust. <br /><br />“We haven’t called him on the phone,” said Bergdahl’s father Bob. “There is a reason for that and that’s because Bowe has been gone so long, that it is going to be very difficult to come back. It’s like a diver going deep on a dive, and has to stage back up to decompression.”<br /><br />At his home in Idaho locals are waiting to welcome him back. Bergdahl was the only known missing US soldier in the recent Afghan war.<br /><br />Republicans are asking if the prisoner exchange to secure his return has been a price worth paying.
