"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." From an AP report - read the whole thing here.
The Pentagon estimates that 60 former Guatanamo detainees have shown up on foreign battlefields. President Obama signed an Executive Order in January ordering the closure of Guatanamo within a year. He did not specify what would be done with the 250 detainees currently held there.
As long as we try to fight terrorism as a law enforcement issue (rather than a military action), this kind of thing will continue to occur.
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