Posted on 03/10/2009 4:21:50 PM PDT by vaper69
U.S. officials say the Taliban’s new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan is a former prisoner at the Guantanamo detention center. Pentagon and CIA officials say Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul was among 13 prisoners released to the Afghan government in December 2007. He is now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir, a name officials say is used by the Taliban leader in charge of operations against U.S. and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan.
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Perhaps next time he won’t be captured and held prisoner?
He probably has a great attitude toward the US right about now, too. Shouldn’t these guys face some kind of military court, insofar as they were combatants when caught? Who cares about the uniform.
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