Senior Talib is killed in Afghanistan (after release from Gitmo)

[quaoar]

http://www.iht.com/articles/540609.htm

From news reports AP, NYT
Monday, September 27, 2004

KABUL A senior commander of the Taliban who had been released from the American detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was killed Saturday in Uruzgan Province, Afghan officials said Sunday.

The commander, Maulavi Ghaffar, had spent eight months in the Guantánamo prison, said the interior minister, Ali Ahmed Jalali.

He had been captured after fighting for the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, Jalali said. After his release more than a year ago he was appointed the Taliban's regional commander in Uruzgan and Helmand Provinces, said Jan Muhammad Khan, governor of Uruzgan. Khan said Ghaffar had carried out attacks against American special forces soldiers and an attack on a district chief in Helmand in which three Afghan soldiers were killed.

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Officials in Afghanistan and the United States have suggested in the past that at least five Afghan detainees released from Guantánamo had returned to Afghanistan and to become Talib commanders or fighters.

[AIJ Alom]

1. I'm sure Satan is welcoming him with open arms.

I wish we had more forces on the ground in Afghanistan so we could annihilate these hijackers (that's what they've done to the religion I practice) once and for all.

[bahrbearian]

2. If they released him they had nothing to charge him with !!!!

It's just another way for Chimp to avoid an Embarrassment,,,kill'em.

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=866046