Posted on 03/28/2019 6:05:25 PM PDT by robowombat
Five jihadis freed from Guantanamo in exchange for Bergdahl now face US as Taliban reps at peace talks
Those who warned that these men would return to the jihad were mocked and vilified as “Islamophobes.”
“Once Jailed in Guantánamo, 5 Taliban Now Face U.S. at Peace Talks,” by Mujib Mashal, New York Times, March 26, 2019:
DOHA, Qatar — When the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001 and toppled the Taliban government, even those who surrendered were treated as terrorists: handcuffed, hooded and shipped to the American detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Now, in a stark demonstration of the twists and contradictions of the long American involvement in Afghanistan, five of those men are sitting across a negotiating table from their former captors, part of the Taliban team discussing the terms of an American troop withdrawal.
“During our time in Guantánamo, the feeling was with us that we had been brought there unjustly and that we would be freed,” said one of the former detainees, Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa. “But it never occurred to me that one day there would be negotiations with them, and I would be sitting there with them on one side and us on the other.”
The five senior Taliban officials were held at Guantánamo for 13 years before catching a lucky break in 2014. They were exchanged for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only known American service member to be held by the insurgents as a prisoner of war.
In recent months, as the American and militants took up intense negotiations to try to end the conflict in Afghanistan, the Taliban leadership made a point of including the former prisoners. Each day during the recent round of talks in Doha, Qatar, the five men sat face to face with American diplomats and generals.
During days of slow and at times frustrated discussions at the most recent session, which ended on March 12, it was the Taliban side that was often more emotional. Some gave impassioned speeches about how vital it was that the Americans completely leave Afghanistan in as little as six months….
The five former Guantánamo detainees had varying roles during the Taliban government. Mullah Khairkhwa served as a governor and acting minister of interior. Abdul Haq Wasiq was deputy minister of intelligence.
Perhaps the most infamous figure in the group is Mullah Fazel Mazloom, a front-line commander who was also chief of the Taliban army. While accusations of human rights abuses by the others have generally remained vague, there seems to be considerably more evidence against Mullah Mazloom, who is accused of mass killings and scorched-earth brutality
Makes you want to puke.
Don’t expect to hear much on this from Morning Joe and his Bride.
While they are negotiating, have the postman deliver a box to them at the table with Bergdal’s head inside with a note explaining that there’s a new sheriff in town.
Also never forget those killed and maimed searching for that POS AWOL traitor Bergdahl.
From the story.....”Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only known American service member to be held by the insurgents as a prisoner of war.”
Someone is lying...and it ain't you!!!!
In other news.....
The Washington Monument will be torn down and replaced with a more relevant Monument to Benedict Arnold..a Great American Hero during the Revolutionary War....*spit
Hold Obama responsible for ANY casualties they commit. There is only one way to stop this (Democrat criminality) and that is to hold responsible the people who allow/encourage these jihadists.
They should have been shot or hanged.
Instead, we had a enemy agent usurping the office.
The founders were right when they said NATURAL born citizen only.
NATURAL born citizens are NATURALLY citizens because they cannot possibly be anything else.
They were exchanged for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl,
It really ought to be Corpseman Bowe Bergdahl.
...here’s a little trip down memory lane: Did anyone else feel annoyed by the virtue-signaling rubber bracelets John Brennan always wears? Well, I did some searches to find out what they say. Haven’t gotten them all pinned down, but the YELLOW one (appropriately) was a BOWE BERGDAHL POW bracelet. I don’t think he’s still wearing that one.
https://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2019/10/master-sgt-mark-allen-casualty-of-bowe.html “The American soldier President Obama portrayed as a heroic POW of the Taliban and traded five jailed Taliban leaders for his release now looks more like the man President Trump called a “no-good traitor” who should “have been executed.” NY Post.
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