A helluva price to pay for bowing to political correctness.
Posted on 07/08/2009 9:38:24 AM PDT by jessduntno
"Reformed" Gitmo inmate killing Americans in Afghanistan Rick Moran
His name is Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul (nickname: Zakir) and he surrendered to the American forces in Afghanistan in late 2001.
Taken to Guantanamo, he spent 6 years in our custody until he was turned over to the Afghan government in 2007 when they promised to make sure he didn't pick up arms against the US again.
Promises are cheap:
Now as the United States is pushing ahead with the massive Operation Khanjar in the southern province of Afghanistan, Zakir is coordinating the Taliban fighters. Some 4,000 U.S. Marines and hundreds of Afghan forces have faced some resistance as they sweep across the province, reclaiming control of districts where Zakir and his comrades were running a shadow government.
Zakir was released from Afghan custody around 2008, according to the New York Post. He re-established connections with high-level Taliban leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan after his second release.
Taliban chief Mullah Omar appointed Zakir in mid-2008 as senior military commander, according to the newspaper.
Zakir quickly became a charismatic leader, helping establish an "accountability commission" to track spending and monitor activities of Taliban leaders in the districts where they held power and were running a shadow government, according to the Post.
Explaining why Zakir was released from Gitmo, the defense official said, "We were under incredible pressure from the world to release detainees at Gitmo. You just don't know what people are going to do.
"He was no worse than anyone else being held at Gunatanamo Bay," the official added. "He was not going to be tried for war crimes so we decided to release him. Either he was not thought to have committed a crime or we didn't have enough evidence to prosecute him."
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A helluva price to pay for bowing to political correctness.
I’m sure keith olbermann will cover this tonight...............not
Rule # 1 ... Take NO prisoners
Pres Bush, why did you go against the principles of keeping terrorists locked up? Why did you buckle under to the RATS demands? Damn! Damn! Double Damn!
You think that was expensive? Just wait until you see just how much this bow costs us...
The guy was a sniveling punk before he went to the University of Guantanamo
Now he's an Afghan superstar. All because he was held prisoner.
I'm sure he brags about how he tricked the Americans into releasing him
Message to troops, don’t take prisoners.
Take a REAL close look at the faces of the others in this photo. They say more than a thousand words...
Isn’t this the photo where Obama complained he accidently had a Chiclet fall out of his mouth and he was looking for it before someone stepped on it and made an awful mess...
Political correctness cheapens the lives of our soldiers.
Unbelievably insane.
This is criminal. Where’s McCain when the military needs a
strong advocate?
Isn’t this the photo where Obama complained he accidently had a Chiclet fall out of his mouth and he was looking for it before someone stepped on it and made an awful mess...
Uhhhhhh, yeah, that’s it...a chiclet fell out of his mouth...that’s the ticket....yeah....
No, he ate a bad bean pie at the Black Panther party fundraiser.
SHOOT HIM!!
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