Officials: Taliban's New Top Operations Officer Is Former Guantanamo Bay Detainee

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The joy of releasing the enemy while the war is ongoing is a gift that keeps on giving - giving us dead bodies. President Bush takes the responsibility for releasing this goat humper, but the Democrats all bear responsibility for the pressure they brought to bear to have him freed.

This is not a game. This is War! The lies of the Left can not change the mantra of the people who have declared war on us. Just because they refuse to listen to our declared enemies does not make those enemies stop wanting to kill us. Just because the Left gives money and food to the terrorists, is not going to stop them from buying weapons. Actually, by saving them money they would have had to spend on food and necessities, the terrorists will be able to purchase larger quantities of weapons and bombs. Thanks morons.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,508506,00.html

The Taliban's new top operations officer in southern Afghanistan had been a prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the latest example of a freed detainee who took a militant leadership role and a potential complication for the Obama administration's efforts to close the prison.

U.S. authorities handed over the detainee to the Afghan government, which in turn released him, according to Pentagon and CIA officials.

Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, formerly Guantanamo prisoner No. 008, was among 13 Afghan prisoners released to the Afghan government in December 2007. Rasoul is now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir, a nom de guerre that Pentagon and intelligence officials say is used by a Taliban leader who is in charge of operations against U.S. and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan.

The officials, who spoke anonymously because they are not authorized to release the information, said Rasoul has joined a growing faction of former Guantanamo prisoners who have rejoined militant groups and taken action against U.S. interests. Pentagon officials have said that as many as 60 former detainees have resurfaced on foreign battlefields.

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