{"id":34614,"date":"2018-11-01T10:13:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=34614"},"modified":"2018-11-01T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:13:30","slug":"why-we-need-guantanamo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=34614","title":{"rendered":"Why We Need Guantanamo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Military Times<\/a> reported yesterday that the five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo who were released in exchange for Sgt. Bergdahl have joined the insurgent group\u2019s political office in Qatar.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

They will now be among Taliban representatives<\/a> negotiating for peace in Afghanistan, a sign some negotiators in Kabul say indicates the Taliban\u2019s desire for a peace pact.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Others fear the five, all of whom were close to the insurgent group’s founder and hard-line leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, bring with them the same ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam that characterized the group’s five-year rule that ended in 2001 with the U.S.-led invasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article details some of the history of the five former prisonersL<\/p>\n

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But there are some among the five who have a disturbing past.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Human Rights Watch accused Mohammed Fazl, the former Taliban army chief arrested in 2002, of overseeing the deaths of thousands of minority Shiites in 2000. The massacre outraged the world and followed the killing the year before of an estimated 2,000 young ethnic Pashtuns in northern Afghanistan by Taliban rivals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Another of the five is Khairullah Khairkhwa, a former governor of Herat province, who was close to both Taliban founder Mullah Omar and al- Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Khairkhwa also had a friendship with former president Hamid Karzai.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The others include Abdul Haq Wasiq, deputy intelligence minister, Mullah Norullah Nori, once described as the most significant Taliban leader held at Guantanamo Bay because of his particularly close relationship with Mullah Omar, who fought U.S.-led coalition forces in northern Afghanistan\u2019s Mazar-e-Sharif and Mohammad Nabi Omari, a Taliban communications officer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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All five are from southern Afghanistan, the Taliban’s heartland.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Releasing these men from Guantanamo makes as much sense as releasing an unrepentant serial murderer. The only thing releasing them accomplished was to put American troops in danger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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