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Senior Al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban leaders meet with Baitullah
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org ^ | June 21, 2009, 2:02 am | Bill Roggio
Posted on June 22, 2009 4:50:08 PM PDT by Cindy
Senior al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban leaders are reported to have met with Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud to advise him to move his group’s operations into Afghanistan and halt attacks against the Pakistani state.
Several meetings were said to have been held last week after an 11-man delegation of al Qaeda and Taliban heavy hitters arrived in Waziristan to deliver a request from Mullah Omar, the Amir al Mumineen, or the leader of the faithful in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to a report in The Nation.
The Taliban dispatched Sirajuddin Haqqani, the powerful military commander of the Haqqani Network, and Abdul Hakeem Sharaee and Mir Ahmad Jan Hashemi, two senior deputies of Mullah Abdullah Zakir, the Taliban’s senior-most military commander in southern Afghanistan who was released from Guantanamo Bay.
Al Qaeda sent Abu Yahya Al Libi, one of al Qaeda’s senior ideologues and a representative of the religious committee, and Abdul Haq Turkistani, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party, an al Qaeda-linked group that is made up of Uighurs who fight the Chinese government. Abdul Haq serves on al Qaeda’s Shura Majlis, or executive council.
The joint Taliban and al Qaeda delegation reportedly advised Baitullah to halt the Pakistani Taliban’s attacks against the military and government and to focus his energy in Afghanistan. The leaders believe Baitullah’s terror attacks against the Pakistani state are putting undue pressure on the Taliban in both Pakistan and Afghanistan and threaten to damage the overall Taliban movement.
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Ex-Guantanamo Prisoner ‘Now a Taliban Leader’
The Herald ^ | 3/12/09
Posted on March 11, 2009 11:47:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A FORMER Guantanamo detainee has become the Taleban’s operations officer in southern Afghanistan where he is launching attacks against British and American troops, it was reported last night.
Adbullah Ghulam Rasoul was handed over to the Afghan government in December 2007, which in turn released him. Intelligence officials said he is now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir and is working as a senior commander.
British officials said they believed Rasoul was behind a rise in road-side bombings against British troops since spring 2008 when he was released from prison in Kabul.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defence said she could not comment on “intelligence matters”.
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Obama’s invisible terror victims: Rights of detained suspects paramount in process
Washington Times ^ | June 22, 2009 | Cmdr Kirk Lippold
Posted on June 22, 2009 12:41:41 PM PDT by Sergeant Tim
[L]ast week, after more delays in the process, the administration called victims of the Cole, Bali and Sept. 11 attacks together again to receive an update about the work of the Detainee Review Task Force. The meeting was emotional and heart-wrenching.
Each person was given the opportunity to speak about the impact the president’s decisions were having on him or her and loved ones. The brave families of our heroes showed true courage in that room. Once again, they had traveled to Washington to express their frustration at seeing justice delayed. If they were truly involved, and the administration were listening, the circumstances below - only amplified by the meeting - simply would not exist. ... The rights of detainees have overshadowed the rights of victims of terrorism. Not once during the meeting did task force members mention that they were taking the rights of victims of terrorism into consideration when deciding what process would ultimately bring these purported terrorists to justice. In a sickening insult to the families, the attorney general had one of his new Justice Department lawyers - Jennifer Daskal, former Gitmo detainee advocate for Human Rights Watch - sit quietly in the room listening to the victims’ stories. [emphasis added mine] It could not be clearer that, to this point, the rights and treatment of detainees rather than of the victims have been of paramount consideration.
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Portugal to take 2 or 3 Guantanamo detainees
Google News ^ | 6/21/09
Posted on June 21, 2009 9:36:59 AM PDT by freespirited
Portugal will take in two or three Guantanamo detainees once they are released by the U.S. detention center, the foreign minister said.
President Barack Obama has pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center by early next year, and has asked European nations to accept some of the camp’s 229 detainees.
The EU, which long argued for the prison’s closure, agreed last week to “turn the page” on Guantanamo, but said it was up to individual EU members to decide whether to take in detainees from the camp. Few have agreed.
The Portuguese government is now working out the legal issues involved in bringing two or three former prisoners to Portugal, Foreign Minister Luis Amado was quoted Sunday as saying by state broadcaster RTP’s Web site.
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