This guy seems a total nutbar. Comments in the foreign press are uniformly very negative asking why this man chose to go backpacking in Afghanistan with a 5 month pregnant woman. Here CBC and others seem to be falling over themselves to consider them heroes.
  The Taliban is denying many of his assertions including the one about rape and murder and to be honest one is inclined to believe them.  There is a lot more here than meets the eye and the truth will emerge through time.