Pentagon and CIA officials report a former prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center has become the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan after he was released.
The prisoner, Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, formerly prisoner No. 008 at Gitmo, was one of 13 prisoners handed over to the Afghanistan government in December 2007. The Afghanistan government released the prisoners, including Rasoul.
Rasoul was captured in 2001 in Konduz. Despite telling US officials that he was forced by the Taliban to carry a gun, records show Rasoul was conscripted into the militant Islamic group in 1995, and was wounded in a bombing in 1997. Upon his release from Gitmo, Rasoul told US officials, “I want to go back home and join my family and work in my land and help my family.”
Pentagon officials report that as many as 60 released prisoners have rejoined militant groups and resurfaced in battles against US/coalition troops.
Barack Obama signed an executive order closing Guantanamo Bay in one of his first acts in office.
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good news for me, thanks for sharing
Two words: Manchurian Candidate.
(As the little people of the world still wonder what Guantanamo was for.)
What I want to know is who the f*ck the scumbag lawyers were who got this piece of shit out of gitmo.
Death to the ragheads! Kos Omok!
HIs name is Michael Ratner, director of the Center for Constitutional Rights in NYC.
Actually I am glad. Now instead of waiting on him hand and footwash in Gitmo, we can kill him in A’stan with a Preadator missle. Maybe get a few of his neighbors from camp gamma and epsilon too!