CNN is reporting:
…. a Taliban commander captured by the United States and held at Guantanamo Bay [who] was let go and returned to Afghanistan [to] become a recruiter for ISIS …was killed in a drone strike Monday
The man, Mullah Abdul Rauf, was described in a Washington Post headline as a:
“… shadowy figure recruiting for the Islamic State in Afghanistan.”
It seems that:
In a 2011 hearing of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations — part of the Armed Services Committee — a lawmaker asked about Rauf and another former detainee. Ed Mornston, director of the Joint Intelligence Task Force of the Defense Intelligence Agency, responded that “there have been instances where detainees who have been transferred from Gitmo have reengaged and have been in the fight and have impacted the lives of U.S. service members. We do track that. I can’t discuss that much further in this open session, but we do in fact know that that has happened.”
One wonders about that. Why the secrecy? Why should this information be classified? Mr. Rauf knew he had been in Gitmo and released. Our government knew. How, exactly, would sharing this information with the citizenry compromise national security?
Still … good riddance.
