What did you think was going to happen, Obama?

US intelligence officials have claimed that a prisoner released from Guantanamo Bay prison has emerged as the Taliban’s leader in southern Afghanistan.

Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, formerly Guantanamo prisoner No. 008, was among 13 Afghan prisoners released to the Afghan government in December 2007, according to the claims.

He is now known as Mullah Abdullah Zakir, a nom de guerre that Pentagon and intelligence officials say is used by a Taliban leader who is in charge of operations against US and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan.

Pentagon officials have said that as many as 60 former detainees out of 500 released have resurfaced on foreign battlefields.

If the claims about Rasoul are valid, he would be the most senior to have done so. Officials offered no evidence for their claim, which came a few weeks after President Barack Obama pledged to close down the controversial jail on a US naval base in Cuba.

US authorities handed over Rasoul to the Afghan government, which in turn released him, according to Pentagon and CIA officials.

The officials, who spoke anonymously to the Associated Press, said Rasoul emerged as a key militant figure in southern Afghanistan, where violence has been spiking in the last year against British, American and Afghan troops.

Although the militant detainees who have resurfaced were released under the Bush administration, the revelation underscores the Obama administration’s dilemma in moving to close the detention camp at Guantanamo and figuring out what to do with the nearly 250 prisoners who remain there.

In one of his first acts in office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the jail next year. The order also convened a task force that will determine how to handle remaining detainees, who could be transferred to other US detention facilities for trial, transferred to foreign nations for legal proceedings or freed.

The Liberal Left in America and the rest of the West have been falling over themselves to hug Guantanamo prisoners as they wail as if in unison, in an orgiastic fit of handwringing about human rights and unlawful detention.

Now it is becoming clear that once released, a significant number of these (and let’s call them what they are) ultraviolent terrorist scum are finding their way back to the battlefield to blow up young British and American soldiers who are fighting to protect us (yes, even the Libs).

The problem we’ve always had with the Left is that it invariably knows with great certainty what it doesn’t want, but rarely demonstrates the intellectual rigour to suggest workable alternatives or solutions. Q.E.D.

Liberalism – logic’s retarded cousin.

[Main story: The Daily Telegraph]

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