Here’s What Happens When Taliban Leaders Are Released -- Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post
If anyone doubts that the five senior Taliban leaders President Obama released this weekend will return to the fight and kill more Americans, they need only look at what happened when the George W. Bush administration released a Taliban leader named Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir (a.k.a. Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul) in 2007.
Unlike the terrorists Obama just set free, Zakir was assessed by our military as only “medium risk” of returning to the fight. At Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Zakir pretended to be a low-ranking conscript and told officials he simply wanted to “go back home and join my family” and promised “I [have] never been America’s enemy and I never intend to be.”
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My Comment: Even Marc A. Thiessen .... a strong supporter of the Obama White House .... has no delusions on what will these five top Taliban leaders will do. The only question that now remains to be answered is .... how many more people are they going to kill when they are back in the fight.
If you want to get even more mad on this sordid affair .... watch the above ABC News report.
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