Former Gitmo inmate now Taliban leader

by Infidelesto on July 7, 2009 · Comments

This is what happens when you send gitmo inmates to other countries to be held.  They almost always get out and return to the battlefield to kill Americans.

Foxnews – 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.

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  • Ed
    Hang on, I thought all Gitmo prisoners were meant to be completely innocent members of the RoP flung into this dreadful camp for absolutely no reason?

    In my opinion these terrorists are not protected by the Geneva Conventions as they do not fight openly and therefore should be shot as terrorists, saboteurs and other cobatants that disguised themselves as civilians traditionally were.
  • SirWilhelm
    I agree, but there's what the BHO admin thinks: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.a... and it's out of committee.
  • Piggypuffs
    Imagine that.
  • greggg57
    Thie time, kill him.
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