There's a reason the five recently-released Taliban commanders were classified as "high risk" detainees by US military and intelligence officials: They're exceptionally dangerous, evil extremists. Villagers in Afghanistan are petrified that these monsters will be free to return to their country next year, where they will no doubt continue their reign of terror.
President Obama's Director of National Intelligence drew a similar conclusion:
One of the five Taliban leaders freed from Guantanamo Bay in return for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's release has pledged to return to fight Americans in Afghanistan, according to a fellow militant and a relative.
"After arriving in Qatar, Noorullah Noori kept insisting he would go to Afghanistan and fight American forces there,” a Taliban commander told NBC News via telephone from Afghanistan. Noori pushed to return to Afghanistan after learning that the U.S. had provided written assurances that no country would arrest any of the five freed for a year as long as they lived peacefully, one of his relatives told NBC News by telephone from Afghanistan...Among the Taliban, the commanders’ release was treated as a victory. "We thought we may not see them again as once you land in the hands of Americans, it's difficult to come out alive,” Noori’s relative said. “
But it was a miracle that Allah Almighty gave us Bergdahl and we got back our heroes.”
In addition to his ties to Mullah Omar and other senior Taliban leaders, Noori was "associated with...
senior al Qaeda members and other extremist organizations."
As I argued in my lengthy analysis this morning,
the administration is currently advancing two mutually-exclusive assertions: That Bergdahl wasn't a hostage (see? we didn't negotiate with terrorists), but that they had to bypass the law and Congress because Bergdahl's captors (who were members of Haqqani, a designated terrorist group) were threatening to kill him. Those two explanations simply cannot exist side-by-side. Traditional prisoner swaps do not entail negotiating with a terrorist organization that forces the other side to comply with their every demand, under threat of executing the "prisoner." The Taliban and Haqqani network are terrorists. Period. The Obama administration negotiated with, and made every requested concession to, those terrorists. Period. Any suggestion otherwise is pitiful, insulting spin that relies on legalistic and contradictory parsing. I made that point on Fox News this afternoon. Be sure to catch the bit where Leslie Marshall claims that she didn't say precisely what she just said:
Six men who served with Bergdahl made their remarkable case on Megyn Kelly's show last night, and 95 percent of active duty, guard and reserve troops believe Bergdahl should face a court martial, according to a non-scientific survey reported by Military.com.....snip~
Surprise: Released Taliban Commander Vows to Resume Violent Jihad Against America - Guy Benson
Didn't take long.....huh? After BO and others talk about how Qatar will be on top of this. Wherein Qatar says they are not Prisoners but guests. Which they are being treated with a Hero's Welcome.
Now what does Bo and his Team have to say. When we are being told upfront. This one will break his Pledge and go back to the battlefield. Btw this is the one I thought would. While the other two will just call the shots from wherever they sit and party.
eace
