ISIS recruiter, once freed from Gitmo by U.S., killed in drone strike in Afghanistan

[Roland99]

Source: CNN

He was a Taliban commander captured by the United States and held at Guantanamo Bay. But he was let go and returned to Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Rauf went on to become a recruiter for ISIS in Afghanistan.

He was killed in a drone strike Monday, two officials told CNN.

Rauf and five others were killed, four of them Pakistani militants, said Mohammed Jan Rasoulya, the deputy governor of southern Helmand province. A senior Afghan security source confirmed Rauf's death.

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"Until 9/11, the hard-nosed Khadim commanded (Taliban creator) Mullah Omar's elite mobile reserve force, fighting regime opponents all over Afghanistan," Newsweek wrote of Rauf in a 2011 list of list of most-wanted insurgents. "Arrested and sent to Guantanamo soon after the Taliban's collapse, he was released in late 2007, having convinced his jailers that he wanted only to go home and tend his farm. Escaping from house arrest in Kabul, he fled to Pakistan."

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/09/world/afghanistan-violence/index.html

[msanthrope]

1. Didn't learn the first time, did he? nt

[Snow Leopard]

2. my best Nelson impression from the Simpsons

HAHA!

[dbackjon]

3. So Bush released a terrorist?

Does that make him an American-hating Secret Muslim?

[dbackjon]

4. Headline should be - Obama kills terrorist Bush released.

[7962]

5. You know, I'd really like to see that. I'll be sure to mention it to a few folks! nt

[hughee99]

7. Its certainly fair game to say so...

Bush should have held the people in Guantanamo forever. That's what we should be pushing the Obama administration for, right? Only indefinite detention will ensure that these people do not return to their own countries and get involved in terrorism again.

[hollowdweller]

6. They probably had a homing device put in him before they released him.

[Roland99]

10. Interesting thought.

Put them under with a sedative so they have no idea it's been implanted and then monitor these vermin whereever they go.

[TwilightGardener]

8. I'm all right with this.

[freshwest]

9. Released by BushCo? Where's the outrage? We can make this Obama's fault now!

As far as this guy, if he was recruiting for feudalism, sorry, but:

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

11. Here's what my BIL's fav news website said about it.

No mention of Bush. Just this:

The U.S. has been emptying Guantanamo Bay of detainees in recent years as President Barack Obama presses on with his controversial pledge to close the detention camp in Cuba.

During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last week, freshman Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said terrorists can "rot in hell."

"In my opinion, the only problem with Guantanamo Bay is there are too many empty beds and cells there right now," Cotton said. "We should be sending more terrorists there. As far as I’m concerned, every last one of them can rot in hell.