Posted on 08/17/2021 12:38:02 PM PDT by KeyLargo
Taliban leader was freed from Guantanamo in 2014 swap by Obama
When then-President Barack Obama released five Taliban commanders from the Guantanamo Bay prison in exchange for an American deserter in 2014, he assured a wary public the dangerous enemy combatants would be transferred to Qatar and kept from causing any trouble in Afghanistan.
In fact, they were left free to engineer Sunday’s sacking of Kabul.
Soon after gaining their freedom, some of the notorious Taliban Five pledged to return to fight Americans in Afghanistan and made contacts with active Taliban militants there. But the Obama-Biden administration turned a blind eye to the disturbing intelligence reports, and it wasn’t long before the freed detainees used Qatar as a base to form a regime in exile.
Eventually, they were recognized by Western diplomats as official representatives of the Taliban during recent “peace” talks.
Earlier this year, one of them, Khairullah Khairkhwa, actually sat across the table from President Biden’s envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, in Moscow, where Khairkhwa was part of the official Taliban delegation that negotiated the final terms of the US withdrawal. The retreat cleared a path for the Taliban to retake power after 20 years.
“I started jihad to remove foreign forces from my country and establish an Islamic government, and jihad will continue until we reach that goal through a political agreement,” Khairkhwa said at the summit.
After raiding the presidential palace in Kabul, a group of armed Taliban fighters told Al Jazeera that they were arranging to bring back their Gitmo-paroled leadership from Qatar upon securing the capital. One unidentified fighter, who blasted America for “oppressing our people for 20 years,” claimed he had also been locked up at the Guantanamo. It’s more evidence Gitmo catch-and-release policies facilitated the fall of Afghanistan to the enemy
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Just for the hell of it, I would like to punch that POS Bergdahl right in the nose hypothetically speaking.
Oh no this is horrible! Who could have seen this coming!!?!!?!!?
A POW who was released in an exchange with imprisoned terrorists would be horrified. But this was a deserter.
There. Fixed the obvious typo in the article.
Biden and his handlers have proven to be nothing more than baguette-eating Surrender Monkeys. If I lived anywhere near a country that was being "protected" by us, I'd beat feet while I still can.
How Khairullah Khairkhwa, released from Guantanamo Bay, planned Taliban's return
https://t.co/4zDK6Byqeo— Hindustan Times (@HindustanTimes) August 17, 2021
In a world where justice is required, Zer0 and all his administration would be sent on a one way trip to Afghanistan. Then America would have fewer problems
An Islamic Party leader known as the “Butcher of Kabul” is heading to Doha, Qatar, to meet with the Taliban delegation, along with former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the High Council for National Reconciliation.
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