Mullah Sprung From Gitmo Jail Now Leads Foe In Afghan Campaign

NY Post ^ | July 05 2009 | SETH G. JONES

[knighthawk]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- As Marine Corps forces roll into southern Afghanistan, they face an enemy familiar to US officials -- Mullah Zakir, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who now leads a reconstituted Taliban.

Abdul Qayum Zakir, also known as Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, is from Helmand Province and has taken a circuitous route to become head of the radical Islamic group.

Zakir was a senior fighter during the Taliban regime in the 1990s. In a memorandum prepared for his administrative review board at Guantanamo, Zakir apparently "felt it would be fine to wage jihad against Americans, Jews, or Israelis if they were invading his country."

[knighthawk]

Ping

[KC Burke]

That military tribunal thing — doing it and/or avoiding it is working real well isn’t it.

[rockabyebaby]

Oh come now, he’s harmless............./sarc

[silverleaf]

Let’s hope they don’t capture him alive next time.

[lgjhn23]

When they capture this turd on this go around, they just need to shoot him dead....do NOT take him prisoner.

[handy old one]

Fighting the enemy you know on sight is easier than the ones you do not know!!

[mdk1960]

A Confederacy of Dunces.

[Danae]

Here is the Oh well DUH moment of the day.

Islamofacists are only stopped by their own deaths. Nothing else. Hello!

[Ben Mugged]

Must be Bush's fault. He turned the Mullah into a fanatic by torturing him until he agreed to kill Americans when he was released.

Yeah, that's it......

[JimSEA]

What we don't seem to realize yet is that we are dealing with deeply held religious beliefs here. Imprisonment, release, withdrawing from Iraq or Afghanistan, none of these will quench the religious fire to kill Infidels and Kaffrs. This is a war with no end.

[Gator113]

If he just plays his cards right, Obama will send him to a warm beach on a beautiful island.... on our dime.

[darth]

I don’t want them to die and become martyrs. In their twisted theology, if they die, they go to Allah’s Celestial Bar and Whorehouse.

My idea: Pay a mercenary company a one-time payment to take captured jihadis to a secret location and NEVER RELEASE THEM NO MATTER WHAT. The prison must be located where no government can force their release, e.g., an old oil tanker anchored far out at sea.

Further payments will be made for any intel extracted from the jihadis. Any methods may be used.

Jihadis don’t fear death; they fear permanent, unpleasant incarceration.

They must fear us.

[Publius6961]

BUMP!