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He was released on May 31 in a prisoner swap that freed five Taliban leaders held at Guantanamo prison in Cuba. He has not spoken to the media since his release and the Twitter account's description of his time in captivity could not be confirmed. A Taliban official told NBC News the rebel group did not own the Twitter account that posted the picture, but that it was run by a known sympathizer who worked at an Afghan university and had copied the photo from the militants' Facebook accounts. The picture is tagged with the words "Jundul Haqqani", or Haqqani group. INSURGENTS The Twitter account identified the man in the photo with Bergdahl as Badruddin Haqqani, head of operations and financial chief for the Haqqani network. The insurgent group is blamed for some of the deadliest and most spectacular attacks on NATO and Afghan troops in Afghanistan. A drone strike killed Badruddin Haqqani in 2012 in northwestern Pakistan. Bergdahl's release sparked an initial wave of euphoria in the United States that quickly became overwhelmed by a bitter political debate over whether he had abandoned his post and whether the prisoner swap should have gone ahead.