Revealed: U.S. secretly releasing top Taliban jihadists in exchange for 'peace pledges'

Yeah, this is gonna work. Fantasy-Based Policymaking Update: "Revealed: U.S. secretly releasing top Taliban insurgents in exchange for 'peace pledges,'" by Suzannah Hills for the Daily Mail, May 7 (thanks to David):

Senior detainees are being secretly released by the United States from a military prison in Afghanistan as part of negotiations with insurgents to curb ongoing violence in the country.

American officials have been using prisoners as bargaining chips in a 'strategic release' program to reduce violence in troubled areas, the Washington Post reports.

The newspaper, quoting U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, said freed insurgents must promise to give up violence in terms of their release.
Unrest: Afghan security personnel and NATO soldiers stand at the scene of suicide car bombing and Taliban militants' attack in Kabul on a compound housing hundreds of foreigners in the Afghan capital on May 2

Unrest: Afghan security personnel and NATO soldiers stand at the scene of suicide car bombing and Taliban militants' attack in Kabul on a compound housing hundreds of foreigners in the Afghan capital on May 2

They are often Taliban fighters who would not be freed under the legal system for military prisoners in Afghanistan.

American officials would not say whether released prisoners have later returned to attack U.S. and Afghan troops, the Post said....

Oh, surely not. They would never do that.

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I have JW's RSS feed staged on my IE8 Favorites bar, but somehow, it doesn't seem to be fetching new feeds - it seems to be down. Is there a problem w/ JW? Earlier, I posted something on Sennel's interview w/ Kent Ekeroth, but nothing appeared.

Or is the site under attack again?

On thw main story above, is there still a bounty on Mullah Omar? If yes, what's the point - have it withdrawn. After all, the Taliban may decide that he needs to be a part of a powersharing arrangement w/ Karzai, and may even want him to succeed Karzai as president.

Just have Mullah Omar as president of Afghanistan, so that this charade ends once and for all.

Why do we have to rely on the UK Daily Mail for these stories? Surely, this should be a sidebar to US media coverage of the silly trials at Guantanamo Bay.

@CTYankee: The DM source is a story in the Washington Post

KABUL: For several years the United States has been secretly releasing high-level detainees from a military prison in Afghanistan as part of negotiations with insurgent groups.
For several years? Wow.

P.S. by "several years" does the WaPo mean "since Obama has been President" ?

American officials have been using prisoners as bargaining chips .....

These chips are worthless, and the prisoners' promises are worth even less.

Dhimmwits!

How many American lives are these soon to be free Taliban murderers responsible for? How many more will die because the US in a cowardly act by the Obama administration let them loose? This president and his cabinet are so unbelievable that it makes by blood boil. When the military brass goes along with it without raising a voice something is terribly wrong. I wish I were smart enough to do what needs to be done to remove Obama from office (short of an uncertain election this Nov) but certainly he has violated the Constitution enough to qualify for "high crimes and misdemeanors". I would think that the left must certainly realize how dangerous this man is and drop their support of him. But seeing how much money is rolling in to his re-election fund, somebody hasn't woke up yet. I have to go take a pill now, I believe my blood pressure has gone through the roof again!

As long as there is an American POW that Obama and company are ignoring...drone attacks should continue...

I wish I were young enough..I'd apply the Vince Flynn/Term Limits solution to the "Obummer and company" Problem. I pray to God....

ahhhhh!!! The work of The Great Appeaser. Our Sycophantic president. November is coming...thank god!

The Cycling Tuscan

As 'Hugh Fitzgerald', former frequent poster at this site some years ago, used to say: "Nonsense on stilts".

WORSE THAN CHAMBERLAIN

When the great appeaser Neville Chamberlain sacrificed Czechoslovakia to the unappeasable Nazi killer Adolf Hitler he did it for the sake of securing the peace between Britain and Germany. His intentions were noble and good however naive, misguided and disastrous. However, in releasing Taliban killers from Afghan jails just six months before Election Day Obama is trying to appease his way to the negotiating table with the Nazi-like Taliban for the sake of his reelection. It's the self-serving triumph of election year politics over national security and the safety of our troops fighting in Afghanistan. And its damn treasonous.

Biologists release turtles and such into the wild with cute little devices attached which can be tracked by satellite.

I wouldn't object to these thugs being released into the wild if there were miniature tracking devices somehow attached to them - without their knowledge - beforehand.

(This might be a way of finding the nests of the bosses of Somali Muslim pirate gangs, btw: catch a few of the smaller fry when they're trying to grab a boat, knock 'em out, attach tracking device, release, wait...send in the drone).

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