Yeah, Concerns About Those Released Taliban Were Just A “Lot of Baloney”
Remember warnings that those 5 Taliban exchanged for Bergdahl would shortly return to jihad against America? And remember our good SECSTATE, some guy named John (he served in Vietnam, you know) Kerry, saying that threats that they’d return to the battlefield were a ”lot of baloney”?
Well, it turns out that a few others were raising the same red flags. And they were raising those red flags well before the deal for Bergdahl was made.
Who? Try agencies of the US Intelligence Community, that’s who. That was the conclusion of a formal multi-agency assessment report compiled prior to the deal, prepared during deliberations regarding the proposed deal.
The report concluded that two of the 5 to be released would likely return to senior positions within the Taliban. The report also assessed that two others would likely return to the Taliban in some capacity.
Only one was rated as being unlikely to return to active Taliban membership (he’d apparently been in contact with US officials prior to his capture). However, that individual was reportedly also angry that he’d been held at Guantanamo after he’d been cooperating with the US, so I wouldn’t personally be surprised to see him return to the Taliban (or some other active jihadist group) too.
That deal for Bergdahl’s release is looking better and better every day, isn’t it?
Category: Military issues, Terror War
And Chuckles Hagel is testifying right now about that very thing.
Is he testifying or testilying. His testimony belies the fact he is an incompetent boob.
I suspect that the intelligence assessments on these individuals were entirely focused on the fact that these men were agents of the Taliban during a period before the major Afghan insurgency, as they were apprehended very early on. It is likely that the conclusion made was that they have little effect on the current insurgency now, have disrupted and disjointed connections as a result of their long incarceration, and have a long road toward building networks that command capable insurgent strength.
What I feel they fail to realize is that they have become martyrs and heroes to their counterparts. These men will live in relative luxury in Qatar for a year, as the Qataris realize they will have to deal with a post-American Afghanistan in the future, and then they will be free to move back to their homeland and be immediately structured into the new Taliban that will inevitably form when the majority of American presence has left.
Watch in the next couple of years as these men are celebrated upon their return to Afghanistan and find jobs within a government that is essentially the Taliban without the name. I’m calling it.
I’ve got money that says the five of them will disappear from Qatar before the year they are suppose to stay is done and we will see them in videos with the Taliban.
The Bloomberg article says they’ll be closely monitored. Kinda like the guns in Fast and Furious. We all know how well that went.
Argh …
Hagel’s testimony is in… “The bottom line is we don’t leave people behind,” Hagel said. Sure we do. It happens, often unavoidably. But it’s a nice slogan. Now, why hasn’t anyone asked that if one of the freed terrorists plans, coordinates, or in any way participates in a successful attack against American civilians or military, the administration is willing to pay that price. And if the answer is yes, how many American lives lost to one or more of these terrorist bastards—who were in our hands, under lock and key—can be lost before the administration thinks that, perhaps, it wasn’t such a good idea. The Emperor promised to close Gitmo. It hasn’t happened. So, he’s just seeing to it that the terrorists are freed, out of spite, ideology, or allegiance. And if you ask allegiance to what, I’ll say, “Look at what he did. You tell me.”
Remember this next time the administration claims any flavor of intel failure.