'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.
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, QatarThe unclean 4 were exchanged for that POS with Bergdahl. Obama needs the finger and F-yous that has been accompanying Biden around the country.
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?!)
And some of the current top Taliban leadership were among the 5000 released under the terms of the agreement Trump worked out with the Taliban last year. The lesson to be learned from all this is that there is no such thing as a reformed Taliban. They will always revert to form so think twice about arresting them instead of killing them.
Face it.. the United States had a President who is a muslim.. 8 years enough voted for a muslim... and Muslims want a Muslim workd.. declare a war on the west... thats what Muslims do.
“We are who you have been waiting for”
“Fundamentaly change this nation”
“We are not a Christian nation “
Mrs. V_TWIN says get ready for another 9/11.....thanks joe Biden.
More proof, obama is running the show.
Thank you Obama, Mr. scandal free.
They won. We lost every way you look at it. But that was the plan.