It was obviously of no importance whatsoever to Barack Obama that these jihad terrorists would return to jihad in Afghanistan and try to kill American troops there. Eli Lake says that the prospect of their killing Bergdahl presented Obama with a “painful dilemma.” It will get more painful once these jihadis murder a few more Americans.
“4 of ‘Taliban 5’ Will Likely Fight Again, U.S. Spies Say,” by Eli Lake, The Daily Beast, June 9, 2014:
Obama’s top intelligence officers warned that four out of the five Taliban prisoners swapped for Bowe Bergdahl would return to the battlefield.
A top intelligence official told lawmakers in a classified Senate briefing last week that he expected four out of the five Taliban leaders released by the Obama administration to eventually return to the battlefield.
According to a pair of U.S. officials, the briefing from Robert Cardillo, a deputy director of national intelligence, represented the latest community-wide U.S. intelligence assessment on these Taliban Five, completed in 2013.
It also means that President Obama was faced with a particularly excruciating choice as he weighed whether or not to swap these five for American hostage Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. The government of Qatar, which agreed to look after the five Taliban leaders as part of the deal for Bergdahl, warned that factions within the Taliban were growing impatient, and campaigning to kill Bergdahl instead of trading him.
“Time is not on your side,” they told U.S. negotiators, according to two senior defense officials. They described a growing split within Taliban and Haqqani Network (which held Bergdahl) over how to best use the soldier—a split confirmed by multiple Taliban and Afghan sources in the region.
Making matters more desperate for Bergdahl was the fact that in September a CIA drone killed Mullah Sangeen Zadran, the Haqqani Network commander who first captured Bergdahl, a move that could have scuttled any chance at all for a prisoner swap.
It all added up to a painful dilemma for the White House: free Taliban leaders who might return to the fight—or risk losing America’s last service member held abroad. Obama ultimately chose to make the deal, despite his intelligence services’ estimate that four of the five Taliban detainees would ultimately resume their struggle against American allies.
The Associated Press also reported last week that Rob Williams, the national intelligence officer for South Asia, told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that he assessed four out of the five would return to combat.
The Daily Beast has learned that these Taliban figures are Mullah Mohammad Fazl, Mullah Norullah Noori, Khairullah Khairkhwa and Mohammed Nabi Omari….
John Stefan Obeda says
I thought of the situation of long ago in Jerusalem. To have Jesus killed or not to have Jesus killed. “Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, ‘You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” (John 11:49) Thank God that we do have soldiers so loyal that one would die to save others. Yes, leave no soldier behind, BUT, not really at the expense of more to be killed. Am I thinking correctly or not? God help us to make the right decisions.
Walter Sieruk says
As for these five violent and deadly Islamic terrorist that Obama set free its only a matter of time before they resume in one way or another the murderous violence ofthe militant jihadism of Islam, Sura 2:216. 9:111,112. 47:4. These five terrorist chiefs neither know nor or care for any other way except the deadly violence of the jihad. What Obama did in setting thoses Islamic terrorists chiefs free was worse then foolishness and folly. For this alone Obama should be impeached. Nevertheless, as the these Islamic terror chiefs it’s only a matter of “”when ” not “if” they will start to re-engage in the heinous and deadly violence of the jihad for Islam. As the Pentagon stated they are a “high risk” and they designated them as “likely to poses a threat.” The Pentagon even put that in a mild way. No matter how much time these Islamic terrorist chiefs spent at Gitmo nor any amount of good value teaching will cause them to turn trom the evil and deadly ways of the jihad. As the ancient Greek poet, Aristophanes wrote “The wiseist of the wise will never make a crab walk straight.” To explain this in another way, the Bible in Ecclesiastes 1:15 teaches “That which is crooked cannot be made straight…” [KJV]
oolong says
It is a traitor.
Tom W Harris says
Mission accomplished.
gravenimage says
Obama’s top intel officers warned that 4 out of the 5 Taliban jihadis swapped for Bergdahl would return to jihad
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And yet Obama and Kerry claim that they present no threat—Kerry going so far as to call the idea “boloney”. Just brazen…