Posted on 11/28/2015 2:48:52 AM PST by Cronos
Hajji Ghalib did just what the American military feared he would after his release from the Guantanamo bay prison camp: He returned to the afghanistan battlefield.
But rather than worrying about Mr. Ghalib, the Americans might have considered encouraging him. Lean and weather-beaten, he is now leading the fight against the Taliban and the Islamic state across a stretch of eastern Afghanistan.
His effectiveness has led to appointments as the Afghanistan government's senior representative in some of the country's most war-ravaged districts. ...
The American military sometimes supports his men with airstrikes -- although Mr. Ghalib complains that there are too few bombers and drones for his taste.
..Among the first to die was Mr. Ghalib's brother. Afterwards the extended family gathered at the gravesite to mourn. But the Taliban had dug up the gravesite and buried a bomb there to punish the family further.
"Eighteen members of my family were killed in that attack" -- almost all women and children.
Ahmed Karzai got him a job as governor of Bati Kot, a Taliban-infested district on a highway to Pakistan.
"When I got into the government, I started to destroy them," Mr. Ghalib recalled. The Taliban tried to placate him, he said, recalling an unusual phone call he received: The insurgent commander on the line offered to find whoever had planted the bomb and hang him.
"I told him that our enmity has just started."
This summer a new threat: Islamic state fighters. The militants had pushed 10 tribal elders into an explosives-lined trench and videotaped the blast that killed them.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Had to look the name up :)
Can’t believe I forgot.
Great movie. Great, underrated actor.
Fantastic in Magnificent Seven.
Oh let’s make a big NYT story about him so Taliban will be sure to kill him immediately!
The Pentagon clearly hates Americans and hates America
as it has protected Hasan and released criminals
to kill again, and again, and again.
Leave it to the Slimes to find the one Gitmo detainee who returned to Jihad against other Muslims instead of the West, and give him the Che Guevara treatment.
I trust them less than Pravda at this point, that’s how bad they are.
I trust them less than Pravda at this point, that’s how bad they are.
You should see him in “Hard Times”.
That was my immediate reaction as well.
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