Posted on 09/08/2021 4:44:12 AM PDT by sevinufnine
Four top members of the Taliban's new interim government are former Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were freed by the Obama administration in a prisoner exchange for Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl. They were members of the hardline 'Guantanamo Five' who were traded to free Bergdahl from the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in 2014. The Taliban on Tuesday announced the appointment of Acting Director of Intelligence Abdul Haq Wasiq, Acting Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs Norullah Noori, Deputy Defense Minister Mohammad Fazl, and Acting Minister of Information and Culture Khairullah Khairkhah. The four men, who also took part in direct negotiations with the US at the Doha summit last year, spent about 13 years in the military prison camp before they were freed in a trade for the admitted deserter, who was captured by insurgents after wandering off his post.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
'I have déjà vu knowing it’s the same national security team in place now that then "exchanged" such high-value terrorists for traitor Bowe Bergdahl,' he told DailyMail.com.
'I personally led searches for Bergdahl and soldiers in other units lost their lives in search of him.
'Seeing these former Guantanamo prisoners now in charge of a terrorist state that will once again threaten the homeland is a slap in the face to every veteran, gold star family, and victims of 9/11.
'Despite this, the Biden Administration has still yet to learn appeasement has serious national security consequences and we are more unsafe now as a result of this disastrous withdrawal.'
One of the most feared figures of the four is Mullah Mohammad Fazl. He returns to the role he held in the pre-9/11 government as deputy defense minister.
He is alleged to be responsible for killing thousands of Afghanistan’s minority Shia.
He, along with the other four, were released as part of a deal for Bergdahl. The fifth member of the Guantanamo Five, Mohammad Nabi Omari, was appointed governor of eastern Khost Province last month.
This was posted yesterday from a Fox News story, but it’s worth posting it again today with updates made by DM UK’s site.
Abdul Haq Wasiq, head of the National Directorate of Security, was also freed as part of the Bergdahl deal.
He was previously the deputy minister of intelligence for the Taliban. He also took part in political negotiations with the US in Doha.
Another of the Guantanamo Five, Mullah Khairullah Khairkhah, will be information and culture minister.
Mullah Noorullah Noori, who served as governor of several provinces under the previous Taliban government, will be minister of borders and tribal affairs#.
Human rights groups have also accused him of committing atrocities against Shia and, like Fazl, his troops surrendered to U.S. forces in 2001 only to launch a prison revolt that sparked one of the biggest battles of the early war and claimed the first American life.
Women were also absent from the new government announced in Kabul.
On Tuesday, the White House press secretary said President Joe Biden was in no hurry to recognize the new Taliban government of Afghanistan.
The appointments - including Sirajuddin Haqqani, who carries a $10 million State Department bounty on his head, as interior minister - will dash hopes that the Taliban’s slick media campaign would translate into a more moderate movement.
So much to unpack.
First: If you hate the consequences of losing wars, plan to win. Because when you don't plan to win, you eventually lose.
Second: The travesty of "Gitmo". If you create institutions with no purpose, eventually they turn around and bite you in the ass. There was never a plan to kill the enemy soldiers at Gitmo. That being the case, why were they there?
Never forget that it was odongo and Talibiden that set these evil weird beards free.
Outright fricken’ treason.
They all seem like friendly gentlemen.
Yeah, slightly more “friendly” than the devil himself.
And accomplished statesmen
Mohammad Nabi Omari (L) and Khairullah Khairkhwa (R), members of the Taliban who were former prisoners held by the US at Guantanamo Bay, were released in 2014 and became negotiators for the Islamist group based in Doha, Qatar
The unclean 4 were exchanged for that POS with Bergdahl. Obama needs the finger and F-yous that has been accompanying Biden around the country.
Where is the POS Bergdahl family today? I wonder if they played any role in who was chosen to be released for the son?
Mullah Yaqoob, the son of the Taliban’s founder heads the group’s powerful military commission, which oversees a vast network of field commanders charged with executing the insurgency’s strategic operations in the war. His lineage and ties to his father - who enjoyed a cult-like status as the Taliban’s leader - serves as a potent symbol and makes him a unifying figure over a sprawling movement.
(Isn’t what Biden turned loose on the middle east, and the world, grand?!)
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