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Taliban swapped for Bergdahl could be drone targets, Kerry indicates
The Manchester Guardian ^ | June 8, 2014 | Paul Lewis

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.

Kerry’s 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 Bergdahl’s 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....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; bergdahl; bhogwot; hanoijohn; johnkerry; kerry; obama; secstate; soskerry; taliban; traitor; uav
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
2nd Div, I have to agree. Those two would just be incompetent, not actively on the side of the enemy!

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!

21 posted on 06/08/2014 7:51:28 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Indeed they are, 2DV! This Marxist traitor has knocked them off the stand in the Worst President Championship. He's won Gold, Silver and Bronze all by himself.



America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

22 posted on 06/08/2014 7:54:12 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Mlichael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can’t these people just STFU.


23 posted on 06/08/2014 7:58:21 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

yup.


24 posted on 06/08/2014 7:58:29 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


25 posted on 06/08/2014 8:01:25 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


26 posted on 06/08/2014 8:02:11 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It would be cool if they had some kind of tracking device implanted in them. But that would be too much to hope for.


27 posted on 06/08/2014 8:02:33 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: TADSLOS

Or the CIA could poison their “ fune stocks” , whatever the hell that is...


28 posted on 06/08/2014 8:02:36 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Creepy Ass Cracker)
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To: mathprof

Kerry served in Vietnam? I wonder why he never mentioned it when he was running for president?


29 posted on 06/08/2014 8:05:37 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thatt’ll be great comfort to the families of sons killed by the released Taliban.


30 posted on 06/08/2014 8:08:59 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Drone strikes in Qatar?


31 posted on 06/08/2014 8:11:12 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Darksheare

“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.”

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.


32 posted on 06/08/2014 8:11:59 PM PDT by OldCountryBoy (You can't make this stuff up!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
... the FBI is investigating death threats against Bergdahl’s parents, who have not reacted publicly to the intense political debate raging over the wisdom of trading five Guantánamo detainees for their son.

The FBI needs to make this investigation public.

33 posted on 06/08/2014 8:14:59 PM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.projectveritas.com/home/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


34 posted on 06/08/2014 8:15:11 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: driftdiver
In Qatar?

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.

35 posted on 06/08/2014 8:18:14 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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To: rbg81

They could have at least put tracking devises in the Presidential Cuff Links that Obama put in their swag bag when they left


36 posted on 06/08/2014 8:20:46 PM PDT by digger48
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To: mathprof
"Kerry served in Vietnam."

It's seared in his memory.

37 posted on 06/08/2014 8:26:20 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is Kerry thinking out loud again ?


38 posted on 06/08/2014 8:26:46 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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39 posted on 06/08/2014 8:26:47 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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40 posted on 06/08/2014 8:27:51 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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