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babylonsister

(170,963 posts)
Sun Jun 1, 2014, 08:42 AM Jun 2014

Here are the Taliban Terrorists Obama Released to Free POW Bowe Bergdahl

Well, we knew they weren't good guys if they were in Gitmo.

Eli Lake
Josh Rogin

05.31.14

Here are the Taliban Terrorists Obama Released to Free POW Bowe Bergdahl


In exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Berghdahl, the U.S. has released five senior Taliban commanders from the Guantanamo Bay prison. They are considered some of the worst of the worst.

The five Guantanamo detainees released by the Obama administration in exchange for America’s last prisoner of war in Afghanistan, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, are bad guys. They are top Taliban commanders the group has tried to free for more than a decade.

According to a 2008 Pentagon dossier on Guantanamo Bay inmates, all five men released were considered to be a high risk to launch attacks against the United States and its allies if they were liberated. The exchange shows that the Obama administration was willing to pay a steep price, indeed, for Bergdahl’s freedom. The administration says they will be transferred to Qatar, which played a key role in the negotiations.

In the initial statements released about the deal, the White House declined to name the detainees who would be leaving the Cuba based prison Obama has been trying to close since his first day in office.

A senior U.S. defense official confirmed Saturday that the prisoners to be released include Mullah Mohammad Fazl, Mullah Norullah Noori, Abdul Haq Wasiq, Khairullah Khairkhwa and Mohammed Nabi Omari.

While not as well known as Guantanamo inmates like 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Taliban 5 were some of the worst outlaws in the U.S. war on terror. And their release will end up replenishing the diminished leadership ranks of the Afghan Taliban at a moment when the United States is winding down the war there.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/31/us-pays-high-price-for-last-pow-in-afghanistan.html

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Here are the Taliban Terrorists Obama Released to Free POW Bowe Bergdahl (Original Post) babylonsister Jun 2014 OP
BERGDAHLZI!!! JaneyVee Jun 2014 #1
While it sounds conspiracy theorist to actually type this out... JJChambers Jun 2014 #2
It would need a power supply. DireStrike Jun 2014 #5
They now need to worry about a drone attack. They need to contiually look up. nt kelliekat44 Jun 2014 #8
hehehehe...I was thinking that they maybe would do that Leme Jun 2014 #9
Eli Lake's reports are of dubious reliability... DonViejo Jun 2014 #3
So do you think he made up the names? I imagine they're posted elsewhere, babylonsister Jun 2014 #4
His reports are of dubious reliability, that's what I wrote. DonViejo Jun 2014 #6
Convictions notwithstanding? GeorgeGist Jun 2014 #7
 

JJChambers

(1,115 posts)
2. While it sounds conspiracy theorist to actually type this out...
Sun Jun 1, 2014, 08:52 AM
Jun 2014

I truly wouldn't be surprised if our military drugged / anesthetized these men and implanted some sort of miniature tracking device into them. I expect we have such technology and I'm certain that our military wouldn't pass on such an opportunity.

DireStrike

(6,452 posts)
5. It would need a power supply.
Sun Jun 1, 2014, 09:06 AM
Jun 2014

As far as I know there isn't an unpowered tracking device that can be just picked up remotely. If you have to put in batteries, that device will be much larger and easier to detect, and far less healthy to implant, if you can even keep it working inside the body. It would also be very temporary, and you would want to watch these assets for some time before picking them up again. I wonder how long you're supposed to wait when you release prisoners before you can go and try to capture them again. Are you supposed to close your eyes and count to 1000 or something?

There is tech to wirelessly power implanted devices, but it involves the user holding a specific charger near the device in their body. I think that if we had medical devices that could draw ambient power from the human body somehow, they would be on the path to commercialization.

Still, if I'm one of these guys, I'm gonna get an X-ray scan.

 

Leme

(1,092 posts)
9. hehehehe...I was thinking that they maybe would do that
Sun Jun 1, 2014, 09:37 AM
Jun 2014

I don't think President Obama would drone them...but one never knows.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
3. Eli Lake's reports are of dubious reliability...
Sun Jun 1, 2014, 08:56 AM
Jun 2014
Lake has been criticized for reporting based on faulty information and questionable sources.[6] In particular, Lake has faced criticism for failing to corroborate claims made by U.S. government sources about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq during the Iraq War and about the foreign associations of Iraqi political figures,[6][7] and for misreporting that a 2013 shutdown of U.S. embassies in Middle Eastern countries was based on the U.S. government's interception of an Al-Qaeda "conference call".[6][8][9] In addition, the objectivity of Lake's regular praise for the government of the Republic of Georgia was called into question in 2011 after it was revealed that he was a close friend of one of the country's top Washington lobbyists, and that the lobbyist had been paying for Lake's tabs at restaurants and bars.[6][10]

Regarding U.S. attempts to try Wikileaks head Julian Assange under the Espionage Act of 1917, Lake has said: "I oppose the application of the espionage statute to Assange because the same kind of prosecution would make me a criminal too."[11][12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Lake


DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
6. His reports are of dubious reliability, that's what I wrote.
Sun Jun 1, 2014, 09:15 AM
Jun 2014

Nothing more, nothing less. If another source, e.g. the WaPo, is reporting the same thing as Lake, than it is very likely he is correct in this report. Absent the back-up reporting, I wouldn't rely on Lake as a reliable source. I was told the same thing by another DU'er the very first time I posted something by Lake.

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