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....
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Then the war ain't over.
Which makes a prisoner swap inappropriate and possibly illegal on its surface. If the war is over then there is a good case to be made for premeditated Murder. This administration is so lawless that it hits itself in the a$$ both coming and going. Just imagine what they will do to a population cowed by Obama's Brown Shirts and their military might.
BS, Kerry
Yeah. Right John. For all the US knows, one of those Taliban could have took part in the attack on the Pakistani airport last night. Took out a few planes and over a dozen people.
They’ll be on the drone target list, but never on the approved strike list. Gotta love how this admin lies and parse’s their words. I’m trying to remember, wasn’t the last drone strike in Dec of last year?
hummmm more false stories...This obama ADM. is just really amazing. they can produce fake tales in minuets..that Susan Rice is also a great story teller...and Valerie Jarret with her special Secret Service protection..
What has happened to the America we all grew up in???
hahaha... funny... another red line enema.
What else? Iran deal fails we nuke Iran?
Suuuure....
OK, so here is a theory:
Obama releases the five terror bitch kings and gets a bump from his fringe donors who wanted Gitmo closed as well as anti Americans everywhere.
Obama is peace loving and ended the war! (Give us more donations!)
Then after collecting lots of donations, the rag headed morons go back to the battlefield — justifying Obama from striking them with drones — making normal American’s happy.
The military couldn’t execute the five kingpins in captivity, but we can kill them now that they are free.
Maybe this is why the Pentagon went along with this?
Maybe each bitch has been tagged with the “magic dust” weapon that we were developing back in 2006?
That means we can spot them from space.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htecm/articles/20060610.aspx
Yes, he’s the modern day Jenjis Khan.
I had the same thoughts, so I join your jaded mindset.
..... Yup .... He gave his word to these people and by doing this he seriously risks inviting retaliation of unknown proportions from the Talibani and associated groups possibly on American soil. If he actually is considering this ... it must only be as an afterthought in an attempt to regain his image and standing amongst the American people.
.... Further proof we are dealing with an idiot.
"Bye, bye Miss American Pie.
Drove my Chevy to the Levy but the Levy was dry."
If life were a D&D game, the DM would be telling Kerry and Zero, “roll for initiative” while having a squadron of heavies hiding around the corner.
You’re going to believe Kerry?? Not me.
Levee, not Levy.
The more cynical side of me fully expects a faked drone strike on at least one of these terrorists.
How better to gee up the base and show how faithless and untrustworthy the USA is?
Ha...they couldn't track the fast and furious guns in Mexico.....
so don't expect them to track these 5 in Qatar.
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