Former Gitmo Inmate Leading Fight Against U.S. in Helmand

[headhuntersix]

Maybe the next President will go one step further the Bush and just tell everybody else to fuck off.

A former Guantanamo Bay inmate is leading the fight against U.S. Marines in the Helmand province of Afghanistan, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to FOX News on Tuesday.

Mullah Zakir, also known as Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, surrendered in Mazar-e-Sharif in Northern Afghanistan in 2001, and was transferred to Gitmo in 2006. He was released in late 2007 to Afghan custody.

Now as the United States is pushing ahead with the massive Operation Khanjar in the southern province of Afghanistan, Zakir is coordinating the Taliban fighters. Some 4,000 U.S. Marines and hundreds of Afghan forces have faced some resistance as they sweep across the province, reclaiming control of districts where Zakir and his comrades were running a shadow government.

Zakir was released from Afghan custody around 2008, according to the New York Post. He re-established connections with high-level Taliban leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan after his second release.

Taliban chief Mullah Omar appointed Zakir in mid-2008 as senior military commander, according to the newspaper.

Zakir quickly became a charismatic leader, helping establish an "accountability commission" to track spending and monitor activities of Taliban leaders in the districts where they held power and were running a shadow government, according to the Post.

Explaining why Zakir was released from Gitmo, the defense official said, "We were under incredible pressure from the world to release detainees at Gitmo. You just don't know what people are going to do.

"He was no worse than anyone else being held at Gunatanamo Bay," the official added. "He was not going to be tried for war crimes so we decided to release him. Either he was not thought to have committed a crime or we didn't have enough evidence to prosecute him."

The defense official shifted some blame for Zakir's activities to Afghanistan. "The country which agreed to take him promised to take steps to mitigate the threat he posed."

Afghanistan's fledgling security agencies have been having trouble keeping the country's jails secure.

Pul-e-Charkhi prison, the country's major high-security prison that houses hundreds of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters, has seen jailbreaks and even insurrections by inmates. Still, releases of Taliban and Al Qaeda inmates are conducted in coordination with the United States.

FOX News' Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report.

[240 is Back]

Great article by FOX here which illustrates how foolish Bush was to release these nuts back into the world.

Bush released several hundred GITMO prisoners.

Obama hasn't released any.

[headhuntersix]

Well it wasn't conservatives putting pressure on him. I would have executed em. Barry and his band said the Surge was a failure and pushed for crap like this...but ur right Bush released em....he should have cooked em and ate em.

[240 is Back]

Well it wasn't conservatives putting pressure on him. I would have executed em. Barry and his band said the Surge was a failure and pushed for crap like this...but ur right Bush released em....he should have cooked em and ate em.

Good call.  So Bush was the type to cow-toe to liberal groups like moveon.org and others?

Hopefully whichever Repub runs in 2012 will have the abilty to stand up to terrorist-loving, America haters. 

[headhuntersix]

Yeah.....he cowed. Liberal shitbag aplogist groups from around the world whined and bitched about big bad America, so Bush broke down and let some of these murderous shitbags go. Bush should not, but don't make it sound like it happened in a vaccum. Barry would have done the same thing. This guy wants to try em in court. He's broke to pressue the other way. The simple thing to do is fucking shoot them.

[240 is Back]

Yeah.....he cowed. Liberal shitbag aplogist groups from around the world whined and bitched about big bad America, so Bush broke down and let some of these murderous shitbags go. Bush should not, but don't make it sound like it happened in a vaccum. Barry would have done the same thing. This guy wants to try em in court. He's broke to pressue the other way. The simple thing to do is fucking shoot them.

tell the world you're going to set them free.

then, the boat can mysteriously sink along the way

the CTers can spend 10 years debating it, that's cool.

[headhuntersix]

Never let the damm boat land in the first place....the CT'ers never even get to start.

[240 is Back]

personally, i think Bush did it without that much pressure- he wanted to release them.

He said he'd continue the war, even if only barney agreed.

Why cave on something like 400 terrorists?  That's like saying you only shoplift on monday, Wednesday, and Friday.  You either cave to pussies, or you don't. 

[Hereford]

The only reason he is now a fighter is because you guys made him that way. He was just a simple goat herder before Bush and all you Cons got ahold of him.   






















 

[headhuntersix]

Allah be praised.

[24KT]

Maybe the next President will go one step further the Bush and just tell everybody else to fuck off.

A former Guantanamo Bay inmate is leading the fight against U.S. Marines in the Helmand province of Afghanistan, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to FOX News on Tuesday.

Mullah Zakir, also known as Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, surrendered in Mazar-e-Sharif in Northern Afghanistan in 2001, and was transferred to Gitmo in 2006. He was released in late 2007 to Afghan custody.

Now as the United States is pushing ahead with the massive Operation Khanjar in the southern province of Afghanistan, Zakir is coordinating the Taliban fighters. Some 4,000 U.S. Marines and hundreds of Afghan forces have faced some resistance as they sweep across the province, reclaiming control of districts where Zakir and his comrades were running a shadow government.

Zakir was released from Afghan custody around 2008, according to the New York Post. He re-established connections with high-level Taliban leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan after his second release.

Taliban chief Mullah Omar appointed Zakir in mid-2008 as senior military commander, according to the newspaper.

Zakir quickly became a charismatic leader, helping establish an "accountability commission" to track spending and monitor activities of Taliban leaders in the districts where they held power and were running a shadow government, according to the Post.

Explaining why Zakir was released from Gitmo, the defense official said, "We were under incredible pressure from the world to release detainees at Gitmo. You just don't know what people are going to do.

"He was no worse than anyone else being held at Gunatanamo Bay," the official added. "He was not going to be tried for war crimes so we decided to release him. Either he was not thought to have committed a crime or we didn't have enough evidence to prosecute him."

The defense official shifted some blame for Zakir's activities to Afghanistan. "The country which agreed to take him promised to take steps to mitigate the threat he posed."

Afghanistan's fledgling security agencies have been having trouble keeping the country's jails secure.

Pul-e-Charkhi prison, the country's major high-security prison that houses hundreds of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters, has seen jailbreaks and even insurrections by inmates. Still, releases of Taliban and Al Qaeda inmates are conducted in coordination with the United States.

FOX News' Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report.

No way you can blame that on Obama, ...Bush was the one who released him,
...and turned him over to Kharzai, his handpicked boy in Afghanistan.