What did the mainstream analysts expect they would do? Become stockbrokers? But this does not mean we should continue the failed attempt at “nation-building” in Afghanistan. The American troops should all come home, and efforts devoted to quarantining Afghan jihadis in Afghanistan so that they can’t wage their jihad outside of that country.
“Freed Taliban by Afghan government returning to resume ‘jihad,'” ANI, September 4, 2020, 20:55 GMT+10
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 4 (ANI): Hundreds of Taliban, who were freed in a move to bring peace in Afghanistan, are reportedly resuming their ‘jihad’ or holy war to overthrow the US-backed Afghan government.
Foreign Policy said a confidential research obtained by this magazine shows that the majority of Taliban prisoners released under an agreement signed by insurgent leaders and the United States are taking up arms to fight Afghan forces and continue their “jihad” to overthrow the US-backed Afghan government and replace it with an Islamic emirate.
“Taliban prisoners released by the Afghan government as part of a deal brokered by the United States aimed at ending almost 20 years of war are returning to the battlefield as commanders and fighters, in direct contravention of pledges made by the insurgents to the White House,” it said.
In an unreleased paper written for the Afghan Peace Dialogue Project at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the Taliban experts Michael Semple and Felix Kuehn found that former Taliban prisoners were “participating in combat, being killed fighting, being taken prisoner and one case of an ex-prisoner being involved with revenge assassinations.”A majority, 68 per cent, of the 108 former Taliban prisoners profiled for the research “have already been re-integrated into the Taliban and have resumed active roles in the conflict, or are in Taliban groups intent on resuming fighting, or are occupying military or political positions, which are fundamentally linked to the Taliban war effort,” Semple and Kuehn write.
“A number of ex-prisoners have been appointed to direct command positions since their release,” they found. “Two ex-prisoners have re-assumed their former military command positions where brothers or sons had taken over temporarily. … A number have already assumed official positions within the Taliban shadow administration. The appointment of ex-prisoners as uluswals — which are essentially in charge of military affairs and oversee civilian matters at a district level — is now widespread.”Another 8 per cent of the interviewees wished to return to the battle but were “being held back by family opposition,” mostly by their wives. A further 27, or 24 per cent, “will categorically not re-join the conflict” for various reasons, mainly because they wished to return to civilian life….
shoehorn says
Yep, if Afghanistan won’t keep jihadis in jail, we should keep Afghan jihadists in the land of the Taliban.
mortimer says
Out of jail, they may be targeted, hunted and killed. May the snipers on our side have steady hands.
MykeJohn says
This is no strange, some of us were expecting this switch. The freed taliban guys have their sight set on 72 nubile so nothing can change it.
owensgate says
Dogs do return to their vomit, after all. The distinction regarding POW’s in legitimate warfare between nations and warfare that is “spiritually driven”, is that in “Nation” warfare, the combatant can return to a “normal” life, but in jihadist warfare, the “combatant” is spiritually obligated for life. I, as a Christian, for example, would never, under ANY circumstances, deny my Christ. Christ FIRST equals a rewarding good life. Anything ELSE first equals destruction. A Jihadi returning to the jihad is a lead pipe cinch.
Mike Stevens says
The only answer is to seal the borders and bomb from a great height any jihadis attempting to leave in order to spread their chaos and destruction. Their fanatical belief in ‘pure’ Islam will drag Afghanistan back to the 7th century so it’s unlikely the country will last for long left to its own devices.
But a warning to the West, especially Britain, Afghans are already among the thousands landing on the English coast, so they have to be stopped heading here as huge numbers will leave a collapsing Afghanistan.
Walter Sieruk says
On the morning of April 17, 2019 on FOX NEWS television the subject was covered about the idea of having “peace talks “with the Taliban. Viewing the history of the Taliban when they were in power in Afghanistan and the brutal ruthless misogyny they had engaged in was both vicious and malicious to the extreme.
Therefore the question, naturally, was brought up, now that peace talks” might soon begin, the Taliban was asked if they return to power in Afghanistan “ would they respect female rights ?”
To that question the Taliban replied “that when back in power they would respect.
Women‘s rights but only to the limits of the cultural of will they permit those rights of women.”
The point is that the “cultural of Afghanistan” is really the religion of Afghanistan, which is Islam.
Therefore the reality is that female rights, for both girls and woman, will not exist in a future Taliban controlled Islamic state of Afghanistan . For Islam is a religion of harsh and malice- filled misogyny.
As explained in the book, by Brigitte Gabriel, of the title THEY MUST BE STOPPED. Her book informs the readers on page 172. “Woman in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”
Walter Sieruk says
Any “peace” agreement with Taliban is a “Deal with devil “ in other words a “fools deal.” The very idea of having actual, real, genuine productive “peace talks” with those brutal ,cruel misogynistic Taliban characters is an absurd and fool idea of folly.
One thing is for sure, even if even attempting to engage on “peace talks” with Taliban it would be best not to be naïve about them and take at face value anything that they might say or promise. To just “give trust away” to those Islamic characters who compose the Taliban would be foolishness and folly. For when trying to have genuine negotiations with the them ,it need to be kept in mind that there is an Islamic doctrine called TAQIYYA This is the Muslim dogma the lying and deception are good things to do, if and as long as the lies and deceit are done for the advancement of Islam.
For the deceptive and disingenuous Taliban have proven many times over, by their own actions, that they are a ruthless, brutal vicious gang of thugs with no honor. So in any kind of “dialogue” the Taliban will most likely speak the truth only when it happened to suite them. The rest of the time they will be speaking half-truths and also be outright lying. Likewise, the Taliban will keep their word in anything that they may happen to promise only and long as in fits into their agenda and no longer. So before engaging of the foolishness of attempting to have genuine “talks for a peace alliance” with Taliban, the officials of the current government would do well to heed the wisdom of Sun Tzu found in THE ART OF WAR. For it instructs “We cannot enter into an alliance neighboring’s princes, until we are acquainted with their designs.” To put this in a more updated and current way, it may be said that “We cannot enter into a peace alliance with the Taliban until we know the actual intentions and real schemes.”
Furthermore, if attempting to engage in “peace talks” with Taliban it would be very naïve to take at face value anything that the Taliban might promise. For example, the Taliban might say that they will respect the rights of women and girls, for they ,many times, employ the Islamic doctrine of Taqiyya In those so called “negotiations” with officials of the West .Taaqyia ids the Islamic teaching that lying and deceit
So it may be nothing but foolishness and folly to even try to have worthwhile constructive peace discussions with lying brutal cruel men who make up the Taliban . For having a genuine practical peace compromise with Taliban might be impossible
As the former US President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, had well-spoken when he said “There has never been – there never can be – successful compromise between good and evil.”
gravenimage says
Spot on, Walter.
Vladimir says
Being freed in the opinion of these gentlemen, is the same as Allah granting them a victory, for they precisely are free to fight in Jihad once more. Western minds cannot understand these concepts because they have forgotten that they are at war whether they fight back or not.
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Taliban jihadis freed from prison by the government return to the jihad
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I don’t know how many of these stories from Afghanistan I have read at this point. This is predictable–but most Afghans are fine with Jihad. And why wouldn’t they be? This is orthodox Islam.