Posted on 12/30/2011 6:59:42 PM PST by La Lydia
The U.S. is considering a proposal to transfer a top Taliban commander out of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay as part of a potential step toward peace talks with the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. A senior U.S. official confirmed to Fox News that Mullah Mohammed Fazl is among the prisoners being considered for release. Held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, Fazl was suspected in sectarian killings of Shiite Muslims before the U.S. invasion that toppled the Taliban government in Afghanistan in 2001.
The U.S. alleges he was a top Taliban official who at one point commanded thousands of troops...WikiLeaks documents also placed him at the scene of a 2001 prison riot where CIA officer Johnny Micheal Spann was killed, though it's unclear whether Fazl was involved.
Any prisoner transfer would be part of a trust-building effort to renew peace talks next year with the Taliban that had reached a critical point before falling apart this month because of objections from Afghan President Hamid Karzai...
U.S. officials from the State Department and White House plan to continue a series of secret meetings with Taliban representatives in Europe and the Persian Gulf region next year, assuming a small group of Taliban emissaries the U.S. considers legitimate remains willing, two officials said...
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Stupid is as stupid does.
It’s insane that our government would be engaged in talks with insurgents.Insurgent fighters should be executed on the field,no questions asked.
I don’t have any problem with transferring him to the California State Penitentiary. They’ll grind him up like a meat grinder.
What? Is Joe Biden running the country while the ONE is on his Asian vacation?
Another example of Obama’s “Pretty Please” policy making nice with people who want to kill us.
Yup. This entire plan is the work of traitors and dangerous fools.
G_D our president is so stupid. Makes me livid.
Knowing Obama is an American hating Muslim, this makes perfect sense.
Stick it in Americans’ faces, let a terrorist go free, and enhance the chances of a new Taliban takeover when we finally leave that hellhole.
Look at it in the picture of our overall foreign policy of late and it all fits.
Obama should be impeached for so many things, but we have a gutless Congress once again, led by fools. Like Clinton, Obama thrives due to the cowardice of the ruling class in DC.
But don’t you go buying a 100 watt light bulb now!!!!
I don’t need to. I have a garage full of real light bulbs. But you are right about Obama.
Obozo = Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!!!
So did I. But they fell out of the boat when I was fishing this afternoon. Sigh.
Hang ‘em high @ Club Gitmo!Whack-a-taliban in the field!FBHO!
...but this will make some very informative tv and internet commercials re ObamAyers come October 2012.
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Obama can take his place. This is insane.
A {expletive}ing insult to every single US soldier that sacrificed (pain, blood, even life) to make his capture possible. FUBO, FU.
“U.S. Weighs Releasing Taliban Commander From Gitmo as Part of Peace Talks”
Surrender.
Appeasement.
What else could it be?
My first thought was seeing him spit on their graves. If he does this, if I ever see him in person, I will not throw a shoe, I will simply show him my back. He will not exist, and I will let the Commander of the Universe do with him as he pleases, and I will be singing praises all the while.
How does one have peace talks with mad dogs? Like trying to treat with zombies or the crackhead who is beating you with a pipe.
The only thing they know is hate and death. This regime is riddled with so much anti American sentiments that it isnr funny.
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