{"id":117319,"date":"2021-09-08T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=117319"},"modified":"2021-09-08T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:14:07","slug":"four-of-the-five-prisoners-exchanged-for-bowe-berghdahl-occupy-senior-taliban-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=117319","title":{"rendered":"Four of the Five prisoners exchanged for Bowe Berghdahl occupy senior Taliban posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=110613\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110613\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-110613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bowe-bergdahl-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bowe-bergdahl-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bowe-bergdahl-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bowe-bergdahl.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Out of the five prisoners released from Guantanamo in exchange for Bowe Berghdahl, four will occupy high positions. Most of these former Guantanamo detainees have ties to Al-Qaeda. Their appointed offices include acting information minister, acting minister for tribal affairs, acting director of intelligence, and acting defense minister.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the Afghan television network TOLOnews, the Taliban-formed government gave leadership positions to Khairullah Khairkhwa, Norullah Noori, Abdul Haq Wasiq, and Mohammad Fazl; all of whom were released in a 2014 deal between the Obama administration and the Taliban to free Bergdahl, whom the Taliban had held as a prisoner since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Taliban announced that Khairkhwa would serve as acting minister for information and culture, Noori would serve as acting minister of borders and tribal affairs, Wasiq would serve as acting director of intelligence, and Fazl would serve as deputy defense minister.<\/p>\n<p>Wasiq will reprise his role as the Taliban&#8217;s intelligence director, previously serving in the role prior to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America. U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Wasiq had close tied to al Qaeda while he was serving in that position at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), noted that Fazl will also return to his role as deputy defense minister. &#8220;U.S. officials found that Fazl worked with senior al Qaeda personnel, including Abdel Hadi al Iraqi, one of Osama bin Laden&#8217;s chief lieutenants,&#8221; Joscelyn wrote in a tweet. &#8220;Al Iraqi is still held at Guantanamo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Late last month, following the Taliban&#8217;s takeover of Afghanistan, the Taliban announced that Mohammad Nabi Omari, another former Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (GTMO) detainee with close ties to al Qaeda, would govern Khost Province.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has more on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/4-prisoners-bowe-bergdahl-exchange-obama-senior-taliban-posts\">story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the five prisoners released from Guantanamo in exchange for Bowe Berghdahl, four will occupy &hellip; <a title=\"Four of the Five prisoners exchanged for Bowe Berghdahl occupy senior Taliban posts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=117319\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four of the Five prisoners exchanged for Bowe Berghdahl occupy senior Taliban posts<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117320,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117319\/revisions\/117320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}