{"id":39806,"date":"2014-02-14T08:33:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T13:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39806"},"modified":"2014-02-14T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T13:33:08","slug":"karzai-releases-65-violent-prisoners-to-appease-taliban-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39806","title":{"rendered":"Karzai releases 65 &#8220;violent&#8221; prisoners to appease Taliban masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/afghan-prisoners-released-despite-international-protests-1.267249\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> comes the news that the taliban&#8217;s man in the Afghan government, Hamid Karzai ordered the release of 65 prisoners from the military prison at Bagram. Prisoners that the US government calls &#8220;violent&#8230;who harm Afghans&#8221;. But, you know, when the Taliban tells Karzai to jump, he asks &#8220;how high&#8221;?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The U.S. has claimed the release violates an agreement the Afghan government made to gain control of the prison, wherein they guaranteed the prisoners would not be released without facing trial. Kabul has defended the move, saying there was not enough evidence to hold the prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>NATO\u2019s top official also expressed concern over the Afghan decision to release the 65 detainees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision, which appears to have been made based on political calculations and without regard for due process before the Afghan courts, is a major step backwards for the rule of law in Afghanistan, and poses serious security concerns,\u201d Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, on the bright side, it will be much easier to drone their asses now that they&#8217;re out and about. Maybe the Taliban can give them bomb classes like the one in Iraq last week. I hear those classes have a real impact on the students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Stars &#038; Stripes comes the news that the taliban&#8217;s man in the Afghan government, Hamid &hellip; <a title=\"Karzai releases 65 &#8220;violent&#8221; prisoners to appease Taliban masters\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39806\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Karzai releases 65 &#8220;violent&#8221; prisoners to appease Taliban masters<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39806","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}