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Taliban commander exchanged for Bergdahl coordinated with al Qaeda to attack
Long War Journal ^ | June 13 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Posted on 06/13/2014 10:09:20 AM PDT by PoloSec

Full Title: Taliban commander exchanged for Bergdahl coordinated with al Qaeda to attack Northern Alliance the day before 9/11

One of the five senior Taliban leaders transferred to Qatar in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl played a key role in al Qaeda's plans leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Mohammad Fazl, who served as the Taliban's army chief of staff and deputy defense minister prior to his detention at Guantánamo, did not have a hand in planning the actual 9/11 hijackings. Along with a notorious al Qaeda leader, however, Fazl did help coordinate a military offensive against the enemies of the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan the day before. And Osama bin Laden viewed that Sept. 10 offensive as an essential part of al Qaeda's 9/11 plot.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; bergdahl; bergdahldeal; fazl; lwj; taliban5

1 posted on 06/13/2014 10:09:20 AM PDT by PoloSec
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To: PoloSec

http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/7-mullah-mohammad-fazl


2 posted on 06/13/2014 10:18:47 AM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: PoloSec

Hat tip: Allen West

3 posted on 06/13/2014 10:28:52 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: BerryDingle

Interesting.
Has the regime actually revealed when these monsters were back in the middle east?


4 posted on 06/13/2014 10:30:55 AM PDT by nascarnation (Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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To: nascarnation

Not as far as I know.


5 posted on 06/13/2014 10:47:58 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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