Posted on 06/08/2014 7:34:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Secretary of state John Kerry has indicated that five Guantánamo Bay detainees released in exchange for an American soldier could be killed by drone strike if they return to the battlefield in Afghanistan.
Kerrys implied threat to the five Taliban fighters came as Republicans ramped-up their criticism of the deal to release Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a prisoner of the Taliban for five years until he was freed last week.
The 28-year-old soldier has reportedly told medical staff at a base in Germany he was tortured and beaten by his captors, and once locked in a metal cage in total darkness as punishment for an attempted escape.
On Sunday, it emerged that the FBI is investigating death threats against Bergdahls parents, who have not reacted publicly to the intense political debate raging over the wisdom of trading five Guantánamo detainees for their son.
Republicans highlight the possibility that the Taliban fighters, some of whom were senior commanders, are likely to return to the Afghan conflict after the year they are compelled to stay in Qatar, which brokered the prisoner swap and has promised to monitor the five men.
However, Kerry told CNN the men were also being closed monitored by the US, which had "the ability to do things" if the terms of the arrangement with Qatar were violated. Although he did not overtly refer to drone strikes, he said the five men would be liable to be killed by the US if they returned to the ranks of the Taliban....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Same rationale as letting violent criminals back out; maybe we'll catch them again so they won't re-offend. Sure, these terrorist leaders we just released after some really soft time in Gitmo are going to be really afraid of us now!
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Can’t these people just STFU.
yup.
Either John F’n (Did you know he served in Vietnam?) Kerry is one of the worlds biggest idiots, or he thinks WE are.
And now that I think about it, I don’t think that is an either/or question.
Seems they looked at the metrics of the drubbing they were getting over releasing those five and paying money in return for a traitor and figured they’d better say something -anything- to get the public outrage to subside.
It would be cool if they had some kind of tracking device implanted in them. But that would be too much to hope for.
Or the CIA could poison their “ fune stocks” , whatever the hell that is...
Kerry served in Vietnam? I wonder why he never mentioned it when he was running for president?
Thatt’ll be great comfort to the families of sons killed by the released Taliban.
Drone strikes in Qatar?
“Seems they looked at the metrics of the drubbing they were getting over releasing those five and paying money in return for a traitor and figured theyd better say something -anything- to get the public outrage to subside.”
So, they sent out Kerry... LOL!!! If it has the same effect on others that it had on me, everyone will laughing so hard they will cry.
The FBI needs to make this investigation public.
It’s bad enough that Obama selected this proven idiot as Sec State, but the idea that he’s allowed to spew tactical options as cover for a bad decision to release them in the first place is just beyond comprehension.
Why yes...
Attached to Saudi Arabia, the known biggest financial and ideological supporter of world wide MMMs (Muslim Mass Murderers.)
To the east by Iran, likewise very much supporters of anything anti-American.
No way to attempt to locate and 'take care' of terrorists hanging out there. "Sovereign states," and all that...
Qatar is as bad, or worse than Pakistan.
They could have at least put tracking devises in the Presidential Cuff Links that Obama put in their swag bag when they left
It's seared in his memory.
Is Kerry thinking out loud again ?
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