A very interesting article was just put out by the Associated Press: Afghanistan Taliban leader was at Gitmo.
And yes, that is the actual title of the article. Here are the first two paragraphs of the article:
The Taliban’s new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan had been a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the latest example of a freed detainee who took a militant leadership role and a potential complication for the Obama administration’s efforts to close the prison. U.S. authorities handed over the detainee to the Afghan government, which in turn released him, according to Pentagon and CIA officials.
Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, formerly Guantanamo prisoner No. 008, was among 13 Afghan prisoners released to the Afghan government in December 2007. Rasoul is now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir, a nom de guerre that Pentagon and intelligence officials say is used by a Taliban leader who is in charge of operations against U.S. and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan.
I know that a diary should have much more than a quote from an article but, really, I just can’t think of anything to add. The Associated Press article says it all. In fact, the title to the Associated Press article says it all.
I honestly cannot think of anything else to add.
Except … Wow!
I tell you something
Leopard1996 Tuesday, March 10th at 11:17PM EDT (link)If another attack did come and hit us at home, I bet some ACLU lawyers will be hiring 24/7 security, because I am sure some people will put the blame squarely on them for their traitorous ways of defending “civil liberties”. I mean come on there was another post here about Minnesota offering “Muslim Mortgages”, because it is considered ursury in the Muslim religion to either pay or receive interest on invested money. Hence they can’t enter into traditional mortgages. However, if that was offered in some state for a specific Christian sect or Jewish sect that believed the same thing, the ACLU would raise holy hell about separation of church and state. So I ask what civil liberties do they defend.
“The accumluated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, “Save Us!”….and I’ll look down and whisper, “No”…The Watchmen