Mullah Sprung From Gitmo Jail Now Leads Foe In Afghan Campaign

U.S soldiers inspects the site of an explosion outside the main U.S. military base in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 4, 2009. A car bomb exploded outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan and wounded three U.S. contractors Wednesday. The Taliban claimed responsibility. (AP Photo / Rafiq Maqbool)

From The New York Post:

KABUL, Afghanistan -- As Marine Corps forces roll into southern Afghanistan, they face an enemy familiar to US officials -- Mullah Zakir, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who now leads a reconstituted Taliban.

Abdul Qayum Zakir, also known as Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, is from Helmand Province and has taken a circuitous route to become head of the radical Islamic group.

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My Comment: News reports like this reminds me of the frustration of the war in Vietnam when U.S. soldiers were always forced to reconquer territory or take a hill that they had taken a few months back. But in Afghanistan, it appears that we are fighting against enemy soldiers that we had captured in the past, but the decision was made (not by soldiers in the field) to release them anyway.