Just in case the five jihadis traded for Bowe Bergdahl weren’t enough, Barack Obama has released twelve more. What could possibly go wrong? Ten of them are Pakistanis, and “Pakistani officials have said that returned detainees would be kept under surveillance to make sure they had no militant links.” We all know that Pakistani authorities are completely honest and indefatigably anti-jihad!
“US Quietly Moves Detainees Out Of Secretive Afghanistan Prison, Reuters, June 13 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
(Reuters) – The Obama administration has quietly repatriated a dozen detainees from a small U.S. military prison in Afghanistan, moving a modest step closer toward winding down the United States’ controversial post-9/11 detainee system.
President Barack Obama, in a letter to Congress released on Thursday, informed U.S. lawmakers that about 38 non-Afghan prisoners remained at the Parwan detention center outside of Kabul, down from around 50 a few months ago.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that a Frenchman, a Kuwaiti and 10 Pakistani prisoners were sent back to their respective home countries at the end of May.
The remaining detainees include Yemeni, Tunisian and more Pakistani nationals, and a Russian who the United States is also considering trying in a military or civilian court.
The transfers, which are not publicly disclosed, underscore the challenges the Obama administration faces in shutting down Parwan and the larger U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which has been widely criticized by human rights groups since being populated in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Many of the detainees have not been charged with a crime, but the release of any military detainees has the potential to intensify the political backlash the Obama administration is facing over its handling of suspected militants captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere since 2001.
White House officials have sought to rebuff criticism of the decision last month to send five senior Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay to Qatar in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier held by Taliban-linked militants in Pakistan.
The Obama administration is slowly moving to transfer some inmates out of Guantanamo Bay, where about 150 inmates remain. Obama has renewed promises to close the prison despite long-standing congressional opposition.
The non-Afghan prisoners at Parwan are the only detainees remaining in U.S. custody in Afghanistan after U.S. officials shifted hundreds of Afghan prisoners to Afghan government custody last year.
In February, U.S. officials were outraged when the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai released 65 of those prisoners, who Washington insisted were dangerous militants requiring at least further investigation.
The U.S. government considers some remaining non-Afghan prisoners at Parwan, like some at Guantanamo, too dangerous to be freed. Some of them have unclear links to the Afghan conflict, including a Yemeni arrested in Bangkok and secretly moved to Afghanistan.
The Parwan detainees’ identities, and the transfer of some of them to other countries in the past, have remained largely a mystery to the public in the United States and Afghanistan.
Last month, the Defense Department provided U.S. lawmakers with a classified report on the identities of the detainees and their alleged militant ties.
Their fate takes on new importance as the end of the U.S. and NATO military mission in Afghanistan approaches. If the two countries can finalize a troop deal, Obama plans to leave just under 10,000 soldiers in Afghanistan after 2014 and withdraw almost all by the end of 2016.
It is unclear under what circumstances the prisoners transferred last month were repatriated.
Pakistani officials have said that returned detainees would be kept under surveillance to make sure they had no militant links. Prisoner advocates say at least some returned detainees were held in secret prisons in Pakistan before being set free.
tpellow says
“Taliban slice off 11 people’s fingers as punishment for voting in Afghanistan’s presidential election”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2658596/Taliban-slices-11-peoples-fingers-punishment-voting-Afghanistans-presidential-election.html#ixzz34kah92bW
Saleem Smith says
Who wants to bet a hundred Afghani dollars that these 12 jihadis go on to kill a hundred or more infidels or fellow Muslims they consider to be “not Islamic enough.”
We ex-Muslims know that Sharia loving Muslims such as the Taliban are the ones obediently applying the “laws of Allah” they find in the Qur’an and Muhammad’s Sunnah.
Iraq and Syria may look very similar to Afghanistan in a few years.
Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:
“One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…
The statement continues,
Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”
http://www.faithfreedom.org/
Angemon says
“returned detainees would be kept under surveillance to make sure they had no militant links”
Said pakistani officials, not managing to keep a straight face…
indian pandit says
abki bar modi sarkar .
Rick MT says
They are swallowing up we Infidels one at a time. No matter what part of the globe you live in, they are coming you and I. Meanwhile, the Imperial President plays golf…awaiting his jihadist friends to walk across our border.
Walter Sieruk says
Those twelve newly released jihadists from that prison in Afghanistan will behave in many ways like those five freed Islamic terrorist chiefs from Gitmo, in one fom or another, they will re-engage inthe murderous violence of the militant jihadism of Islam, Sura 2:216. 9:111,112. 47:4. For none of them know or care for any other way. No about of time spent locked up or any amount of good value teaching will cause them to turn from the deadly and evil ways ofthe jihad. As the ancient Greek poet ,Aristophanes, wrote “The wisest of the wise will never make a crab walk straight. ” To explain this in another way, the Bible teaches “That which is crooked cannot be made straight.” Ecclesiastes 9:3. [NIV]
Walter Sieruk says
Just one more word, I ment to Keyboard Ecclesiastes 1:15. not 9:3 in the posting that I just made. Nevertheless, 9:3. may very well apply to all militamt jihadists. For it teaches “The hearts of men are ful of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live and afterwards they jointhe dead.” [NIV]
Zadude says
he only thing this proves is that Not only Obama-haters are THE biggest hateful, ignorant racists, bigots, black-hating, non-Christian hateing scumbags in America, but also the most Stupidest and R-tarded!
So the War is over and he is slowly releasing POW’s? Didn’t we do the
same after, hmmmm lets see. Revolutionary War, Civil War, Spanish
American War, WW1 & WW2, Korean War. We let go POW’s from Germany,
Japan, Korea, and Vietnam? I think I missed some but, Whats NEW HERE?
Now USS Liberty attack???????
Wait, why do I keep forgetting? History means nothing when A black man does it. I remember now. Nobody would bat an eye if a White President did this, like he did MANY TIMES before.
no doubt you have a google alert alert for anything “gay” + “obama”
We can see the jealously seething when you refer to Michelle and Barak Obama being a guest in someones home as “shacking up”
Just curious, what does your “girlfriend” think about you spending so much time talking how Obama is gay and calling him a twink and a bottom. Does she ever point out how gay you sound when you do this ?
The hatred of Obama boils down to the meanest of human faults. Obama is too smart, too well-spoken, has worked too hard to make something of himself — and he’s the wrong color. Americans should celebrate, but nasty old prejudices have won the day. Obama can say the sky is blue, and it would be controversial.
Proof is in the pudding, Obama is hated because he;s black!
Let’s get real and stop trying to make nice with people who are not nice at all. When you question this President’s birthplace, you are a racist. When you reject this President’s self-professed Christian faith, you are a racist. When you tell jokes with racial overtones, you are a racist. When you email race based cartoons to your friends, you are a racist. When you continue to listen to racist talking heads like Rush Limbaugh, you are a racist.
Is Barack Obama an evil man?
No.
Is Barack Obama Destroying America?
No. The economy (biggest concern among the electorate) is slowly recovering and growing. He is trying to responsibly end two wars while also dealing with tensions in Asia, and he’s done a fairly decent job thus far. Not sterling, but then again, nobody is.
Is Barack Obama a Narcissist?
No.
Is barack Obama a Marxist?
No. If he were he would be leading the socialist revolution to overthrow the current government, not civically participating in that government
Is Barack Obama a Communist?
No. Do you even know what communism is? There’s theoretical and actual, for whether or not he is an actual communist, see above. For theoretical communist, that would mean abolishing government and having a classles, stateless, moneyless society. He’s clearly not for that, so, that’s a resounding no.
Why do cons have such seething hatred for President Obama? Oh, yeah ! keep forgetting because he’s black!
You call Obama a traitor, you are a racist!
You call Obama a POS, you are a racist!
You call Obama a fraud, you are a racist!
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EYESOPEN says
Zadude said: “Why do cons have such seething hatred for President Obama? Oh, yeah ! keep forgetting because he’s black!”
No you idiot! Conservatives despise OBummer because he is destroying this country. But of course, as a libtard, you can go on licking his boots.
Charlie Griffith says
Zadude……you’re making a fool of yourself. Calm down.
dumbledoresarmy says
The war ain’t over, fool.
The war is Jihad, and it is supposed to be waged by the mohammedan mobsters non-stop until the entire *world* is either Muslim, or near-slave dhimmi, or…DEAD. (See Quran 9:29). And any non-Muslim who doesn’t want to live in a world like that, has to *fight*. And keep on fighting.
Muslism have been waging jihad, one way or another, against everything and everybody not-Islam, for **fourteen hundred years**. Ever since the invention of Islam.
Most of its sacrificial victims (non-Muslims) have been black. 1200 years of jihad and slave-raiding in black Africa. They used to take young black boys and slash off their external genitalia – killing nine out of ten, as a result, and carting off the traumatised, brutalised, walking-dead survivors to be eunuchs in the harems…or slave-soldiers and slave-labourers. If you’re black you should have a *massive* bone to pick with Islam, because black Africa has been simply *ruined*, plundered, decimated, and warped by Islam, it’s never had a chance (ever investigated Biafra and what it was about? do you know about the two million murdered non-Muslim Africans of south Sudan, murdered by Muslim northerners?). I think Africa would have been a very different place had Islam not been invented.
The next biggest lot of sacrificial victims of Muslim jihad have been south Asians (mostly in what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). Scores of millions of people butchered on the altar of the infernal allah, the arab muslim “god” of blood and war.
And then there are the two million murdered Armenian Christians, and the millions of non-Muslim girls and boys from the Balkans who were seized by the Ottoman Muslims, in the course of five *centuries*, as devshirme – “blood tax” – to be brainwashed and brutalised as slave-soldiers, janissaries, or to be used and abused, even unto death, as sex-slaves in the harems.
Do you know about the Barbary pirates? Muslims all. Jihad attacked the United States as soon as it (the US) was *born* as a separate country. The US had done *nothing* to Muslims. Just *existing* as a non-Muslim entity is reason enough to be attacked by Muslims. We offend them..by existing. By breathing-while-non-Muslim.
So the Jihad will continue as long as there are Muslims and as long as there is even one infidel state, one free infidel, left, anywhere upon planet earth.
The war we are in began before the United States, or Australia, or most modern nations, came into existence.
It is the War of Infidel self-defence against the genocidal Jihad.
Angemon says
Zadude posted:
“he[sic] only thing this proves is that Not{sic] only Obama-haters are THE biggest hateful, ignorant racists, bigots, black-hating, non-Christian hateing scumbags in America, but also the most Stupidest[sic] and R-tarded[sic]!”
“The hatred of Obama boils down to the meanest of human faults. Obama is too smart, too well-spoken, has worked too hard to make something of himself — and he’s the wrong color. Americans should celebrate, but nasty old prejudices have won the day. Obama can say the sky is blue, and it would be controversial.
Proof is in the pudding, Obama is hated because he;s[sic] black!
Let’s get real and stop trying to make nice with people who are not nice at all. When you question this President’s birthplace, you are a racist. When you reject this President’s self-professed Christian faith, you are a racist.”
“Why do cons have such seething hatred for President Obama? Oh, yeah ! keep forgetting because he’s black!
You call Obama a traitor, you are a racist!
You call Obama a POS, you are a racist!
You call Obama a fraud, you are a racist!”
Keep drinking that Kool-Aid kid, and let us know how that turned out for you. And keep acting like a loony leftie stereotype, i’m loving your act so far! ;). You really captured the way lefties try to silence any legitimate criticism of Obama by claiming it’s “racist”.
But i do agree with you when you say “Let’s get real and stop trying to make nice with people who are not nice at all“. Obama should realize that war is not over and that terrorists acting upon islamic orthodoxy are a threat to America (and the rest world). Gitmo should remain open and the anti-american islamic terrorists it houses should be kept there because they constitute a clear and present danger for the american people. Sever diplomatic ties and stop foreign aid to countries that persecute minorities and have no respect for bacis human rights, find an alternative to Middle-East oil and for God’s sake, stop carrying water for the people who consider America as being the “Great Satan”and whose declared goal is to ring it down at any cost.
Mirren10 says
”Why do cons have such seething hatred for President Obama? Oh, yeah ! keep forgetting because he’s black!
You call Obama a traitor, you are a racist!
You call Obama a POS, you are a racist!
You call Obama a fraud, you are a racist!”
So, if a **black** person called, say, Bush, a traitor, a POS, and a fraud, would *they* be ‘racist’ ? If a *white* person called Bush these things, would *they* be ‘racist’ ?
If a *black* person calls Obama a traitor, a POS, and a fraud, (and plenty do ) does that then make **them** ‘racist’ ?
I’m not an American (I am white, though), I’m from the UK.
I call David Cameron a traitor, a POS, and a fraud. Does that make me a ‘racist’ ? No. It makes me someone who loathes and despises what Cameron is doing to my country.
So why is someone who feels what Obama is doing is wrong, stupid, and inimical to the best interests of the USA, a ‘racist’ ?
In your mind, does mere ‘blackness’ confer immunity from criticism, and anger at what this man is doing ? (and Obama is half-white, anyway).
As dumbledoresarmy has pointed out above, **the war isn’t over**. If you think it is, you are deliberately putting blinkers over your eyes, and ear plugs in your ears.
If you’re black, does what I’ve just said to you, make me a ‘racist’ ?
Your ranting about ‘racists’ who dare to criticise Obama, therefore makes no sense.
Would *any* criticism of Obama be legitimate in your eyes ?
JeffS says
Zadude is a reverse racist. He thinks Obama’s blackness renders him immune from criticism.