war, terrorism, news, foreign affairs
March 11, 2009, by Bob Parks
The left will spin this as either our detaining of this man made him a new America-hating terrorist, or a Bush administration screw-up. Either way, this Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul will now be leading operations against our soldiers in Afghanistan.
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.