The White House just this week claimed that the Taliban was not a terror organization but rather an armed insurgency. However even during the prisoner swap for Bergdahl they claimed Taliban was a terror organization.
Yet….Back in 2012,
A summary report, the office of the Director of National Intelligence said that 27.9 percent of the 599 former detainees released from Guantanamo were either confirmed or suspected of later engaging in militant activity.
The figures represent a 2.9 percent rise over a 25 percent aggregate recidivism rate reported by the intelligence czar’s office in December 2010.
The increase in the apparent recidivism rate, while not large, comes at a delicate time for President Barack Obama, and could further complicate his attempts to negotiate a peace deal with Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
As a “confidence building” measure, the Taliban have insisted on the release of five specific Taliban leaders currently held at Guantanamo. The Obama administration has been working on a plan under which the detainees could be transferred to the Persian Gulf state of Qatar but still held in detention.
*** Subj: CNN Breaking News One of the five Taliban detainees released from Guantanamo Bay in return for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has attempted to return to militant activity, several U.S. officials tell CNN’s Barbara Starr. They were released to Qatar, which had said it would monitor the former detainees’ activities. Shortly after their release in May for Bergdahl, President Barack Obama said, “I wouldn’t be doing it if I thought that it was contrary to American national security.”
*** More breaking today: Three American contractors and an Afghan national were shot to death in the North Kabul International Airport Thursday, a U.S. official confirmed. It was not immediately clear who did the shooting or whether the shooter was a member of the Afghan security forces. The incident occurred about 6:40 p.m., the official said, adding, “this incident is under investigation.”
There has been a recent rise in so-called “insider attacks” in Afghanistan. The U.S. combat mission there ended last year. *** Who is asking about the countless Green on Blue attacks? Are you?
Last March, KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban assailants apparently thought they were attacking an unprotected Christian-run day care center. But they mistakenly burst into the compound next door, where an American government contractor’s employees were heavily armed and ready, according to accounts that the contractor and the Afghan police gave on Friday of a wild four-hour shootout here.
Then just last month, December, the Taliban attacked a Pakistan school killing 145. The Taliban has attacked more than 1000 schools.
The Taliban took their war on education to a ruthless new low with an assault on a crowded school in Peshawar that killed 145 people — 132 of them uniformed schoolchildren — in the deadliest single attack in the group’s history. During an eight-hour rampage at the Army Public School and Degree College, a team of nine Taliban gunmen stormed through the corridors and assembly hall, firing at random and throwing grenades. Some of the 1,100 students at the school were lined up and slaughtered with shots to the head. Others were gunned down as they cowered under their desks, or forced to watch as their teachers were riddled with bullets.
Thank you for all you do.. Thank you for all your knowledge and TRUE information. If one thing I can count on it that all your information is spot on and never misleading.