Thread: Current Taliban Leader was Freed for Deserter Bergdahl by Obama in 2014

Current Taliban Leader was Freed in Exchange for Deserter Bergdahl by Obama in 2014
Nick Kangadis
August. 17. 2021
Current Taliban Leader was Freed in Exchange for Deserter Bergdahl by Obama in 2014 | MRCTV


The "scandal-less" Obama administration's chickens have come to roost, ironically, during what many have called former President Barack Obama's third term, otherwise known as the Biden regime. Same screwups, different president.

You all remember former U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, don't you? If you don't, Bergdahl was the soldier that admittedly deserted his post in Afghanistan in 2009, leading to two other soldiers being permanently disabled while searching for him.

The Obama administration brokered a deal in 2014 in which the Taliban would free Bergdahl in exchange for five Afghan detainees that were being held at the Guantanamo Bay facility (GITMO).

Here's the rub.

All five of the detainees who were released by the Obama administration, and were said to be relegated to Qatar so they couldn't influence Taliban activities in Afghanistan, are now all apparently Taliban leaders, often referred to as the "Taliban Five."

The New York Post is reporting that one of those freed detainees, Khairullah Khairkhwa, met with representatives of the Biden regime in Moscow to negotiate "final terms of the U.S. withdrawal."

The Pentagon had previously advised the Obama administration that Khairkhwa was "too dangerous to release," but Obama included him in the five and released him anyway.

The Post reported:

Soon after gaining their freedom, some of the notorious Taliban Five pledged to return to fight Americans in Afghanistan and made contacts with active Taliban militants there. But the Obama-Biden administration turned a blind eye to the disturbing intelligence reports, and it wasn't long before the freed detainees used Qatar as a base to form a regime in exile[...]

After raiding the presidential palace in Kabul, a group of armed Taliban fighters told Al Jazeera that they were arranging to bring back their Gitmo-paroled leadership from Qatar upon securing the capital. One unidentified fighter, who blasted America for "oppressing our people for 20 years," claimed he had also been locked up at the Guantanamo Bay facility. It's more evidence that Gitmo catch-and-release policies facilitated the fall of Afghanistan to the enemy that Washington vowed to crush after 9/11.

And here we are, once again, with a region that is arguably more unstable than it was when the U.S. first entered into war with it. What a difference seven years, or 20 years — depending on if you're talking about the overall situation, makes.

4 prisoners Obama exchanged for Bowe Berghdahl now in senior Taliban posts
Nearly all of those who hold senior positions have close ties to al Qaeda
By Kyle Morris
4 prisoners Obama exchanged for Bowe Berghdahl now in senior Taliban posts | Fox News

Four out of five Guantanamo detainees whom former President Barack Obama released in exchange for former U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in 2014 now hold senior positions in the interim government created by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

According to the Afghan television network TOLOnews, the Taliban-formed government gave leadership positions to Khairullah Khairkhwa, Norullah Noori, Abdul Haq Wasiq, and Mohammad Fazl; all of whom were released in a 2014 deal between the Obama administration and the Taliban to free Bergdahl, whom the Taliban had held as a prisoner since 2009.

On Tuesday, the Taliban announced that Khairkhwa would serve as acting minister for information and culture, Noori would serve as acting minister of borders and tribal affairs, Wasiq would serve as acting director of intelligence, and Fazl would serve as deputy defense minister.

Wasiq will reprise his role as the Taliban's intelligence director, previously serving in the role prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America. U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Wasiq had close tied to al Qaeda while he was serving in that position at the time.

Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), noted that Fazl will also return to his role as deputy defense minister. "U.S. officials found that Fazl worked with senior al Qaeda personnel, including Abdel Hadi al Iraqi, one of Osama bin Laden's chief lieutenants," Joscelyn wrote in a tweet. "Al Iraqi is still held at Guantanamo."

Late last month, following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, the Taliban announced that Mohammad Nabi Omari, another former Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (GTMO) detainee with close ties to al Qaeda, would govern Khost Province.....