Another legacy item for the ex-Radical-in-Chief.
November 13, 2018 Lloyd Billingsley
In the run-up to the November election, five Taliban commanders freed from Guantanamo in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl rejoined the Taliban’s political office in Qatar. That development calls for a look at the back story.
“One big concern is that the U.S. will be releasing five Taliban commanders in exchange for Bergdahl,” the Washington Post explained in 2014. “So who are these men? And what might they do when released?” The Post weighed in on both counts.
Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhw helped to create the Taliban movement in 1994 and once served as its interior minister. According to his Guantanamo case file, he was known to have close ties to Osama Bin Laden of al Qaeda, prime mover of the 9/11 attacks.
Mullah Mohammad Fazl had served as a senior commander in the Taliban army during the 1990s, rising to chief of staff. He likely supervised the killing of thousands of Shiite Muslims near Kabul and was present during a prison riot that claimed CIA operative Johnny Spann. According to his file, if released Fazl would likely rejoin the Taliban and resume hostilities against the United States and coalition forces...........To Read More....
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Saturday, November 3, 2018
Sinema Verite: Arizona Dem Gets Taliban Wish
By Daniel John Sobieski November 3, 2018
One wonders what Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, candidate for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Jeff Flake, thinks of the news that the five members of the Taliban, dubbed their “Dream Team”, that President Barack Hussein Obama traded for the traitor and deserter Bowe Bergdahl, have officially returned to the Taliban, their mission once again to kill Americans and, presumably, Arizonans.
Let me take a wild guess and suggest that it is doubtful Sinema will express condemnation of and regret for Obama’s move to excuse a traitor and reward an enemy of the United States, an enemy that tried to kill and are still trying to kill the likes of her Senate opponent, GOP representative and former A-10 Warthog pilot Martha McSally............."Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, the Democratic Senate candidate in Arizona, said in a resurfaced radio interview from 2003 that she does not care if people fight for the Taliban against the United States"…........... Read more
One wonders what Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, candidate for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Jeff Flake, thinks of the news that the five members of the Taliban, dubbed their “Dream Team”, that President Barack Hussein Obama traded for the traitor and deserter Bowe Bergdahl, have officially returned to the Taliban, their mission once again to kill Americans and, presumably, Arizonans.
Let me take a wild guess and suggest that it is doubtful Sinema will express condemnation of and regret for Obama’s move to excuse a traitor and reward an enemy of the United States, an enemy that tried to kill and are still trying to kill the likes of her Senate opponent, GOP representative and former A-10 Warthog pilot Martha McSally............."Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, the Democratic Senate candidate in Arizona, said in a resurfaced radio interview from 2003 that she does not care if people fight for the Taliban against the United States"…........... Read more
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