WASHINGTON (AP) — If any of the 65 Afghan militants who were released from a former U.S. prison in Afghanistan return to the battlefield, they risk being hunted down by U.S. forces, a Pentagon official suggested Friday.
“Without getting into hypotheticals, every day we continue to go after those enemies in Afghanistan that are targeting our forces, the forces of our allies and the Afghan people, and nothing’s going to change about that. And should one of these detainees rejoin the fight, they need to know that they do it at their own peril,” said the Pentagon’s press secretary, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby.
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