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Taliban Fighter Who Was Freed From Guantánamo Prison Is Killed
NY Times ^ | September 27, 2004 | AMY WALDMAN

Posted on 09/26/2004 7:47:01 PM PDT by neverdem

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 26 - A senior Taliban commander who had been released from the American detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was killed Saturday in Uruzgan Province, Afghan officials reported Sunday.

The commander, Maulavi Ghaffar, had spent eight months in the Guantánamo prison, said the Interior Minister, Ali Jalali. He had been captured after fighting for the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, Mr. Jalali said.

After his release over a year ago he was appointed the Taliban's regional commander in Uruzgan and Helmand Provinces, said Jan Mohammad Khan, the governor of Uruzgan Province. The governor said Mr. Ghaffar had carried out attacks against American Special Forces soldiers and an attack on a district chief in Helmand in which three Afghan soldiers were killed.

The governor said officials had learned Friday that Mr. Ghaffar planned to attack the police in Chachani district, and instead the Afghan forces killed him and two of his men.

Officials in Afghanistan and the United States have indicated in the past that at least five Afghan detainees released from Guantánamo had returned to Afghanistan and again become Taliban commanders or fighters.

Another commander, Mullah Usman, was arrested, Mr. Jalali said. Mr. Khan, the provincial governor, said Mullah Usman had been a district chief under the Taliban and had been responsible for the killings of 16 people in Uruzgan who had voter registration cards.

He also said Interior Ministry officials had found one ton of explosives in a section of Kabul on Sunday, and that suspects were being questioned in that case.


TOPICS: Cuba; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; cuba; taliban; talibastard
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1 posted on 09/26/2004 7:47:04 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: Criminal Number 18F

ping


2 posted on 09/26/2004 7:47:47 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem

Better late than never, I guess.


3 posted on 09/26/2004 7:48:01 PM PDT by Ronin (When the fox gnaws....SMILE!)
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Waiting for a press release from the ACLU...


4 posted on 09/26/2004 7:49:17 PM PDT by kasparik
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To: kasparik

This is a serious problem. There may not be enough evidence to try them for anything. I guess I'd keep them in Gitmo forever.


5 posted on 09/26/2004 7:50:49 PM PDT by Jack Black
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To: neverdem
A real dog will always eat garbage. If you tie it up for months, or even years. As soon as you let it go, it will still eat garbage, even if you tied it up for eating garbage.

The truly baffling thing about this is that we're NOT talking about dogs. We're talking about people who make choices....BAD choices. Ah well...one less dangerous person we have to worry about on this planet.
6 posted on 09/26/2004 7:53:44 PM PDT by hiredhand
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To: neverdem

yay!


7 posted on 09/26/2004 7:54:37 PM PDT by MisterRepublican
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To: neverdem

8 posted on 09/26/2004 7:56:27 PM PDT by budman_2001
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To: neverdem

Dumb bleeding heart liberals. Why can't they see past their idealogical fog? I am continued to be amazed at some people's stupidity.


9 posted on 09/26/2004 7:57:11 PM PDT by vpintheak (Our Liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain!)
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To: hiredhand
The governor said officials had learned Friday that Mr. Ghaffar planned to attack the police in Chachani district, and instead the Afghan forces killed him and two of his men.

Look at the bright side though, if he was a gang-banger killed in the US, we would have to put up with his Aunt and Gramma on the local news crying, bawling, and talking about what a 'good boy' he was.

10 posted on 09/26/2004 7:57:25 PM PDT by GaltMeister (I'm just a Pajamahadeen cog in the wheels of the VRWC.)
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To: neverdem

Good. The MSM was running out of ways to keep Abu Ghraib on the front pages. /sarcasm


11 posted on 09/26/2004 7:58:04 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: neverdem

Well, if there's no proof the guy did anything wrong, then there's no proof he's dead, either. Cuts both ways.


12 posted on 09/26/2004 7:58:39 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: neverdem
The governor said Mr. Ghaffar had carried out attacks against American Special Forces soldiers

I say the NY Slimes needs a new style book for terrorists. One that doesn't identify them as "Mr.".

13 posted on 09/26/2004 7:59:53 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16 (Proud to be a Reagan Republican)
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To: GaltMeister
Look at the bright side though, if he was a gang-banger killed in the US, we would have to put up with his Aunt and Gramma on the local news crying, bawling, and talking about what a 'good boy' he was.

GOOD point! :-)
14 posted on 09/26/2004 8:00:22 PM PDT by hiredhand
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To: neverdem
Bet he wishes he was setting in Cuba with panties on his head.

Nothing gets your point across like a bullet to the head.

15 posted on 09/26/2004 8:00:25 PM PDT by mississippi red-neck
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To: neverdem
Which just goes to prove that a Taliban cannot be "reformed".

You find a Taliban, you kill it.

16 posted on 09/26/2004 8:01:07 PM PDT by Thumper1960 ("It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed."-V.I.Lenin)
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To: neverdem

Heh, heh.....ahem!....uhh...errrr.....I mean....what a shame.


17 posted on 09/26/2004 8:01:14 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all)
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To: neverdem

This is hot - I hope they post an Arabic version of this story down in GITMO - LOL !!!!


18 posted on 09/26/2004 8:02:33 PM PDT by 11th_VA (While Kerry lied, good men died ...)
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To: neverdem

Shi-ite happens.


19 posted on 09/26/2004 8:03:23 PM PDT by Horatio Gates (Ready to do violence on your behalf.)
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To: neverdem

Karma and all that stuff! Don't choke on the raisens dude.


20 posted on 09/26/2004 8:04:14 PM PDT by Atchafalaya
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