Former Gitmo Detainee Leads Insurgency in Southern Afghanistan
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, March 6, 2010, 10:59 PM
A former Gitmo detainee is leading the insurgency in southern Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Qayyum or Mullah Zakir was released by Afghani officials in a botched attempt at reconciliation with tribes.
The Daily Times reported:
The insurgency in the most violent part of Afghanistan is being led by a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, set free by the Afghan government in a botched attempt at reconciliation with tribes, a NATO official said on Saturday.
The man, known by the names Mullah Abdul Qayyum and Mullah Zakir, was arrested in 2001 and held in the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, until 2007, when the administration of President George W Bush turned him over to Afghan custody. He is now the commander of Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan – including the Helmand province, where US and British forces launched the war’s biggest offensive last month – and a leading candidate to take over as Taliban number two and overall military commander, said the NATO official.
Qayyum was transferred to a prison in Kabul in 2007. Afghan Deputy Attorney General Fazel Ahmad Faqiryar confirmed that the Afghan authorities freed him in 2008 under a reconciliation programme.
More… Qayyaum’s key aide is also a former Gitmo detainee:
“Qayyum’s key aide in plotting attacks on Afghan and international forces is another former Guantanamo prisoner, said the Afghan intelligence officials as well as a former Helmand governor, Sher Mohammed Akundzada. Abdul Rauf, who told his U.S. interrogators he had only loose connections to the Taliban, spent time in an Afghan jail before being freed last year.”
Previously On Released Gitmo Detainees:
** Gitmo Detainees Re-Arrested in Russia
** Former Gitmo Prisoner Arrested for Terrorism in Moscow
** Three Former Gitmo Detainees Held in Morocco
** Former Gitmo Inmate Involved in Russian Terror Attack on Nalchik
** Former Gitmo Detainee Re-Arrested in Pakistan
** Seven Percent of Gitmo Detainees Return to Battlefield.
** Former Club Gitmo Detainee Carries Out Suicide Mission in Iraq
** Pentagon: 61 Gitmo Grads Returned to Terror
** Former “Rehabilitated” Gitmo Detainee Becomes Al-Qaeda Chief
** 2 Former “Rehabilitated” Gitmo Grads Appear in Al-Qaeda Movie
** 11 Former “Rehabilitated” Gitmo Grads Back On Saudi Most Wanted List
** American Teenager Murdered By Former Gitmo Detainee
** Breaking: Taliban’s Top Officer in Southern Afghanistan Is Former Gitmo Detainee
** Former Gitmo Detainee Leads Fight Against US Troops
** Another Former “Rehabilitated” Gitmo Detainee Killed in Shootout
** Former Gitmo Detainee Now Al Qaeda “Spiritual Leader”
** Former Gitmo Detainees Lead Yemeni Al-Qaeda Group Linked to Detroit Bomber
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Jo commented:
I say it day-in-and-day-out, Bozo is trying to destroy this country, and he means it too. Maybe the republicans are too much scared of this bufoon?
jonyjoe101 commented:
Hopefully the “marines” permanently neutralize him this time. “Neutralized” insurgents usually don’t get back up and return to the battlefield. In case the insurgents haven’t been listening to the jihadi radio, being a “commander” usually isn’t a good career move.
I would say 99 percent of the prisioners in GITMO are guilty of something, release them when the war on terror is over. War on terror will be over in about a 100 years, either we win or they win, nothing in between.
katy commented:
But wait….the recidivism rate is only 20%… no need to worry.
Palinfan commented:
I’m the last one to defend Obama but it sounds like he’s taken to killing these guys now. In other words, by killing them, he doesn’t have to deal with them and the messy legal hassles of bringing them back to the US and having to store them somewhere. This works well in that 1) they are dead. 2) we don’t have to deal with them. The disadvantage is that we get no info out of them.
As far as Obama is concerned, he doesn’t look bad because the media won’t report this very much and the antiwar Left and Liberal voters won’t hold him accountable for doing the exact same things they hated about Bush.
KR commented:
Ahh, BO just needs to invite him to the entrepreneur summit to get him on the right path.
Mullah Abdul Qayyum could start up Bombs ‘R Us or something.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.c429eac8e6bddb6d430d2b4d28386dd9.551&show_article=1
opaobie commented:
The problem with killing all enemy combatants without trying to capture any of them is that we eliminate a vital source of realtime intelligence. Add to that the fear of legal entanglements for how they are interrogated, and failing to capture any enemy combatants becomes as much a success for the enemy as the actual damage their weapons cause, and all of these added together disrupt our war effort. The Obama “rules of engagement” prohibiting firing first or firing if there is a chance of hitting civilians (which may be human shields or other enemy combatants disguised as civilians) is already getting our soldiers and marines killed.
New orders from Obama: From now on, kill anyone named “Mullah”.
xiphos commented:
Releasing these “people” has been just as bad as re-electing Pelosi, Reid, Durbin etc. Nothing good has EVER come of it.
Corporal Vere commented:
#8:
You are correct.
Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Durbin (US soldiers are nazis), Frank, et al are at least as dangerous to your liberties and pursuit of happiness as all the terrorists in the entire world.
Fire the entire congress!
bigkahuna commented:
I say we should implant them with poison pills that can be activated later after they return to their terrorist friends and also implant micro tracking devices. They could be done after putting them to sleep for a feq hours and in some place they would see no scars. Then we could track them to the scum friends and kill them all and give them their 70 gay male camel virgins