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.
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Better late than never, I guess.
Waiting for a press release from the ACLU...
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.
yay!
Dumb bleeding heart liberals. Why can't they see past their idealogical fog? I am continued to be amazed at some people's stupidity.
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. The MSM was running out of ways to keep Abu Ghraib on the front pages. /sarcasm
Well, if there's no proof the guy did anything wrong, then there's no proof he's dead, either. Cuts both ways.
I say the NY Slimes needs a new style book for terrorists. One that doesn't identify them as "Mr.".
Nothing gets your point across like a bullet to the head.
You find a Taliban, you kill it.
Heh, heh.....ahem!....uhh...errrr.....I mean....what a shame.
This is hot - I hope they post an Arabic version of this story down in GITMO - LOL !!!!
Shi-ite happens.
Karma and all that stuff! Don't choke on the raisens dude.
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