Well that’s nice:
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.
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After nearly eight years, I’ve come to the conclusion that guys with guns who shoot at you while hiding amongst civilians and/or hospitals and such, who brainwash impressionable teens into becoming walking bombs just can’t be trusted.
Either that or, on his release, the guards at Gitmo forgot to tell Rasoul, “run along, play nice.”
It’s OK. Obama has a plan for people like him. Aren’t these the same people he wants to befriend in an effort to get them to help us? I mean, this guy seems really willing to work with others. Look at all of the community outreach you mentioned. Obama and he have so much in common. He’s a community organizer, too!
I’m still trying to figure out what the plan is — our local Colorado Supermax prison? And how is a dank uber-secure cage an improvement over a breezy shack on the Cuban beach?
Oh, I see what’s going on here. Let me help you out. Here’s where you’re running into a problem. You assume there is a plan. Welcome to the age of Barack Obama, vague details is all you’ll get.
Vague details would be an improvement. Geitner only seems to have vague generalities.
Memo to US soldiers: No more prisoners.