Released U.S. Soldier’s Father wants to “Free All Guantanamo Prisoners”

Thomas Joscelyn in “Five of the Most Dangerous Taliban Commanders in U.S. Custody Exchanged for American Captive” writes:

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has profiled these jihadists previously on multiple occasions, and what follows below is culled from these accounts.

There are good reasons why the Taliban has long wanted the five freed from Gitmo. All five are among the Taliban’s top commanders in U.S. custody and are still revered in jihadist circles.

Two of the five have been wanted by the UN for war crimes. And because of their prowess, Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) deemed all five of them “high” risks to the U.S. and its allies.

The Obama administration wants to convince the Taliban to abandon its longstanding alliance with al Qaeda. But these men contributed to the formation of that relationship in the first place. All five had close ties to al Qaeda well before the 9/11 attacks. Therefore, it is difficult to see how their freedom would help the Obama administration achieve one of its principal goals for the hoped-for talks.

To read the profiles of the “Taliban Five” released by President Obama click here.

“While I will always celebrate the release of any American being held hostage, especially a U.S. Soldier, I do have serious concerns with many of the actions taken by [President] Obama – especially when it involves negotiating with terrorists and releasing ‘high risk’ terrorists back into the hands of the Taliban,” writes Christian Ziegler, State Committeeman for the Republican Party of Sarasota, Florida in an email.

Ziegler notes, “My concerns were escalated when I spotted this Tweet sent out by the father of the freed soldier who appeared alongside President Obama in a Rose Garden announcement today.”

Basima Fysal, reading Robert Bergdahl’s Tweet, wrote, “Stockholm syndrome by proxy. He loves the cult that abducted his sun [sic], and abhors the US detention of jihadis.”

A review of Robert Bergdahl’s Twitter page confirms the concerns voiced by Ziegler and Fysal. Here are some examples:

May 31, 2014 – US disengaging from Afghanistan or changing nature of the battle? http://www.shahamat-english.com/index.php/articles/44294-is-america-disengaging-from-afghanistan-or-changing-nature-of-the-battle … @ABalkhi

May 29, 2014 – CIA Winds Down Drone Strike Program In Pakistan http://huff.to/1mwdblK  via @HuffPostPol

May 28, 2014 – د افغانستان اسلامي امارت <a ” href=”https://twitter.com/ABalkhi”>@ABalkhi my son speaks about unjust death of Afghan children: http://shahamat-movie.com/ 

In the May 31st tweet, Robert Bergdahl is linking to and quoting from The Voice of Jihad published by The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is the Taliban.

According to the American University College of Law:

Kabul fell on September 26, 1996, compelling the forces that had been bitter rivals in Kabul’s civil war to formed a new alliance to oppose them, the United Front. The Taliban’s attempt to take Mazar-I Sharif in May 1997 ended in disaster, with at least 3,000 Taliban soldiers taken prisoner and summarily executed by Junbish forces. The Taliban finally took Mazar in August 1998, and exacted their revenge by killing thousands of civilians, most of them Hazara.

While continuing the battle for control of the rest of the country, in Kabul the Taliban instituted a highly repressive administration based primarily on its intelligence apparatus, the main organization of which was run by Qari Ahmadullah, who operated out of the former office of KhAD in Sedarat. In October 1997, the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, renamed the Islamic State of Afghanistan the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

The Taliban seemed poised to take control of Afghanistan from the United Islamic Front in 2001. On September 9th, suicide bombers assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, the leader of the United Islamic Front. Two days later, terrorists from Al-Qaida, a terrorist organization which had made Afghanistan its base, attacked the United States. When the Taliban refused a demand by the US to deliver top Al-Qaida personnel and destroy the organization’s bases, the US and its allies invaded Afghanistan. By December, the Taliban had fled their last stronghold at Kandahar and dispersed into the country. The Taliban would reemerge as insurgents against the US and the new government of Afghanistan.

Has Bowe’s father Robert Bergdahl become pro-jihad in his heart. We celebrate his son Bowe’s release but will Bowe hear from his father what he heard from his captors?

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