Gee, I wonder why Obama changed a policy proposal he used to unfairly criticize Bush throughout his campaign, not that McCain offered any better alternatives. The Gitmo criticism of Bush by the liberal Democrats without having presented an implementable alternative has to be one of the lowest points in their demonizing of the former President. And that's saying something.
A former Guantanamo Bay inmate is leading the fight against U.S. Marines in the Helmand province of Afghanistan, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to FOX News on Tuesday.
Mullah Zakir, also known as Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, surrendered in Mazar-e-Sharif in Northern Afghanistan in 2001, and was transferred to Gitmo in 2006. He was released in late 2007 to Afghan custody.
Now as the United States is pushing ahead with the massive Operation Khanjar in the southern province of Afghanistan, Zakir is coordinating the Taliban fighters. Some 4,000 U.S. Marines and hundreds of Afghan forces have faced some resistance as they sweep across the province, reclaiming control of districts where Zakir and his comrades were running a shadow government.
Not to worry...Zakir is a dead Zakir. He just doesn't know it yet.
Posted by: Philip McDaniel | Tuesday, July 07, 2009 at 10:50 PM