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March 11, 2009
Top Taliban Operations Officer Is Gitmo Alumnus
It's a good thing the Obama Administration is now making friends with the Taliban, because the release of vacationers from Club Gitmo is beefing up its top ranks:
The Taliban's new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan had been a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the latest example of a freed detainee who took a militant leadership role and a potential complication for the Obama administration's efforts to close the prison.
U.S. authorities handed over the detainee to the Afghan government, which in turn released him, according to Pentagon and CIA officials.
Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, formerly Guantanamo prisoner No. 008, was among 13 Afghan prisoners released to the Afghan government in December 2007. Rasoul is now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir, a nom de guerre that Pentagon and intelligence officials say is used by a Taliban leader who is in charge of operations against U.S. and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan.
The officials, who spoke anonymously because they are not authorized to release the information, said Rasoul has joined a growing faction of former Guantanamo prisoners who have rejoined militant groups and taken action against U.S. interests. Pentagon officials have said that as many as 60 former detainees have resurfaced on foreign battlefields.
If they're caught again, they'll be released again, after fattening up in our luxurious terrorist vacation facilities, where they will no longer be inconvenienced by anything but the gentlest interrogations.
Terrorists must love having their allies in charge of our government.
On a tip from Viking04.
Posted by Van Helsing at March 11, 2009 8:26 AM
Comments
So, let me get this straight. We capture terrorists in barren, poor, war-torn countries where they are barely clothed and starving. We take them to a nice, clean facility where we fatten them up with three squares a day, cloth them, heal their ailments, and allow them to rest up. Then…we let them go! They then run back fat, healed, rested to barren, poor, war-torn countries to kill us. Ok…just wanted to be sure…
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Posted by: Franklin's Locke at March 11, 2009 8:40 AM
Screw interrogation! If I were a combat soldier, why would I take a prisoner? He's not going to divulge anything being questioned in what is now a spa? Then he's just coming back to shoot me or my replacement.
'Quit whinin' and put your fuckin' hands down Achmed.........'
Posted by: Shooter1001 at March 11, 2009 8:55 AM
This looks like a PR stunt; an obvious but brilliant one.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 11, 2009 9:27 AM
Shooter, most guys in the military who comment on sites will suggest a "take no prisoners" mindset. Nuf said.
Posted by: Karin at March 11, 2009 10:55 AM
Anonymous at 9:27, can you expand on your comment?
Posted by: Karin at March 11, 2009 10:56 AM
Way,way,way back when I was in the military, 50 years ago, this was a much different country!
The closest I ever came to combat was at the Alamo but the damn Mexican Army was gone by time I got there.
I told my son I was at the Alamo. He told his K teacher that his daddy shot up a bunch of Mexicans in Texas once. His PC K teacher called me up to school and wanted me arrested. She was about 22 and a tad naive. Cute though.
My point is that there's little incentive nowadays for taking any prisoners,even as much as the CIC would like to negotiate with 'em.
Posted by: Shooter1001 at March 11, 2009 12:47 PM
Posted by: Karin at March 11, 2009 10:56 AM
How many companies have celebrities as members of boards? He's someone with name recognition, a face, a hero (to some).
Posted by: Anonymous at March 11, 2009 8:43 PM
Anonymous at 9:27, can you expand on your comment?
Posted by: Karin at March 11, 2009 10:56 AM
S/he means the supposed "recapture" of a former Gitmo detainee, in a senior position within a fundamentalist/terrorist group, is a setup by the U.S. (probably in cahoots with Zionists, Freemasons, anti-abortion protesters and the ubiquitous Fox News), to maintain public support for Halliburton's war for oil.
"Clever but obvious PR stunt" or variations thereof have been standard nomenclature throughout the GWoT among DU and Kos types. They use it to explain away any news reports or military/government intelligence that demonstrates fundamentalist Islam to be a reality rather than a pretext for an unjust war for oil.
Apparently no-one told this particular retard that Bushitler is no longer running the war.
Posted by: Mandible Claw at March 12, 2009 8:21 AM
