Monday, March 30, 2009
Guantánamo - Great idea, Heh?
The closing of Guantanomo was a campaign promise to garner the votes of a selected group of people, and now is likely to come back to haunt (and kill) some of us.
I don't think the new administration has thought this through...
I don't think the new administration has thought this through...
In the N.Y. Times (Asia-Pacific), Carlotta Gall reports:
"The Taliban fighters said the Afghan Taliban delegation was led by Mullah Abdullah Zakir, a commander from Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, whose real name is reported to be Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul.
A front-line commander during the Taliban government, Mullah Zakir was captured in 2001 in northern Afghanistan and was detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, until his release in 2007, Afghan Taliban members contacted by telephone said.
The Pakistani fighters described Mullah Zakir as an impressive speaker and a trainer, and one said he was particularly energetic in working to unite the different Taliban groups."
