Obama Officials Confirm They’re Considering Release Of Top Taliban Gitmo Detainees To Aid “Peace” Talks — Update: Senate Leaders Briefed On Pending Deal…
Pathetic.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials acknowledged Tuesday that the United States may release several Afghan Taliban prisoners from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an incentive to bring the Taliban to peace talks.
Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper told Congress Tuesday that no decision had been made on whether to trade the five Taliban prisoners, now held at Guantanamo Bay as part of nascent peace talks with the Taliban. He and CIA Director David Petraeus did not dispute that the Obama administration is considering transferring the five to a third country.
U.S. officials and others had previously spoken only vaguely, and usually anonymously, about the proposal to send the prisoners to Qatar, a Persian Gulf country that has asserted a central role in framing talks that might end the 10-year war in Afghanistan. The lead U.S. negotiator trying to coax the Taliban into talks had also publicly acknowledged the possibility of a release, but said there was no final decision.
The prisoners proposed for transfer include some of the detainees brought to Guantanamo during the initial days and weeks of the U.S. invasion that toppled the Taliban government in Afghanistan in 2001. At least one has been accused in the massacre of thousands of Shiite Muslims in Afghanistan, according to U.S. and other assessments, but none are accused of directly killing Americans.
Update: Looks like this is actually going to happen.
(The Cable) — Top Obama administration officials briefed eight senior Senate leaders Tuesday on a pending deal to transfer as many as five Taliban prisoners from the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to Qatar.
The Cable staked out the classified briefing in the basement of the Capitol building Tuesday afternoon. The eight senators who attended the briefing were Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Intelligence Committee heads Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Senate Armed Services chiefs Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ), and Senate Foreign Relations Committee leaders John Kerry (D-MA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN).
The identities of the administration briefers were not shared, but we were told it was a high-level interagency briefing team.
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I can see this going bad fast…
Interesting the two words missing from that article: Bowe Bergdahl.
He can’t close GITMO when it still houses terrorists, but if he releases them all, he can say he did.
This is as much a political move as it is a strategic one.
Once again, I’m all for it if they put a satellite tracking device in them and we vaporize a whole slew of them with a hellfire missle when they have their homecoming party!
Hussein is always a moron and shows it with every move he makes!
Sure. Thank them publically and profusely for all the valuable intel they have given, making it clear that the intel was used to track and kill dozens of other terrorists and stop future plots. Then release them. Their former buddies will take care of the rest.
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Obama is French now? I thought he was Irish.
‘What a bunch of friggin morons running things………….
Releasing terrorists to be welcomed home as hero’s, and rewarded as such, is almost incomprehensible!
Then I remember who’s in charge, barry, holder,shillery, and it all figures!
But then I realize who’s really behind this, nwo/globalists and their spokesperson soro’s and they are using the UN as a tool towards their ultimate goal, a few elites controling everything. Our food, water, shelter, medical,income (by taxes and regulation), where we live, want we own, education!!
I sure hope America wakes up before its to late!!!
Because we are currently in BIG trouble!
Fine. As long as he has an unknown tracking chip implanted. And as long as we get to see the video of about a half dozen Apaches making gun-runs on his camp and followers
clap-on/clap-off – may they all get a heavy dose of the ‘clap’.
One more step in Obama’s appeasement to Islam. They really understand this idiot also his advisor’s who support the Muslim Brotherhood have loud voices in his ear.
If he thinks this will aid peace talks he more stupid than ever: start sending loli-pops to the sucker in office. MMMM, do they even make that flavor?
Are they morons or do they know exactly what they are doing? B. HUSSEIN O., with his dreams from his father, his funding terrorist uprisings in moderate islamic countries, peace talks with terrorist organizations, and on and on and on, is doing this. is it moronic or deliberate? you decide – and is November 2012 too late?
Release them over Afghanistan, from 10000 feet, strapped to a jdam.
@gd
You presented a rather lovely image.
As Slim Pickens said in Dr. Strange love, “Yeeee Haaaaw!”
As with everything coming out of Washington, this is the spin, the excuse, the propaganda. Releasing these maniacs will do absolutely nothing to get the Taliban to chat about peace. The Taliban don’t want peace, they only want control of Afghanistan.
Releasing the prisoners will get points with the Muzzies, and our own lefties. It must be an election year.
Traitor,despot,scumball, lowlife fithly reptile anything to curry favor with the terrorists This Peace Treaty should be sent to the paper shredder along with all those worthless UN treaties
Releasing them to bring about peace is like saying, “I take ipecac to stop vomiting”.
What an a bunch of idiots!
Cowdude
Oh I see Clapper is involved, I feel so much better about this now. Moderate muzz, they are parents too ya know. Move along.
This will end well I’m sure.
What a sorry list of fucking RINOs on that list of briefed Senators.
A act of treason this is no peace deal its a bum deal
Obama: “Now do you promise you won’t do no more bad stuff?”
Taliban: “We promise.”
Obama: “Good enough for me! Now on to my reelection.”
American General: “Sir, don’t you see that they could be lying. If we”
Obama points to the General: “Have that man arrested! He’s a danger to our country!”
To question my actions is uh, uh clearly racist!
OsamaHusseinIslamObama 2012′ (WTF)
(the terrorist-Uighur-ACORN-OWS-media choice)
-It’s never too early to campaign-♫
Qatar is where the Taliban have an embassy.
By releasing the terrorists to Qatar, Barry is essentially giving legitimacy to the Taliban as a “governmental agency”.
If we recognize them through a diplomatic prisoner release, and we are still bombing them, does that mean we are at war with the Taliban?
Is Barry going to surrender officially to them?
Obama is a terrorist loving Muslim… there is no doubt in my mind.
If Obama thought that setting off a nuclear bomb in the middle of New York City would help him get reelected, he’d do it.
I don’t know what it’s going to take, but this man must be removed from office!
Vote early and vote often!
And I’m sure that Holder will give them a truckload of weapons as a parting gift. Thanks for playing!
Chicago Jesus descends into hell and releases his beloved demons
See folks.
RINOs continue to give into to the Muslim Marxist Dictator and I’m supposed to vote for their chosen RINO?
Never!
Every single day it seems to be another catastrophic mistake made by this administration. Everybody seems to focus on the economy and what a disaster Obama has made of that, but I actually believe his foreign policy has been even worse.
this cannot end well.
appeasement never does.
taliban leadership who were there in 2001 are complicit in a crime against humanity – 9/11 – and should be executed.
even fdr would’ve had them shot.
obama might NOT be a mole for global jihad but he he might as well be a mole for global jihad:
iran and the muslim brotherhood and the taliban and boko haram are all gaining and we are losing.
thanks barach hussein obama!
Even with the update there are still two words missing: Bowe Bergdahl. What. A. Surprise.
Suckass Chambliss made that list???
I can see the other traitors doing this…..somebody inform me when he was abducted and brainwashed
If this isn’t made a major point/commercial during the presidential campaign, the GOP deserves to lose.
Democratic Party – “The Party of Treason”
Go ahead. Release em. Then our boys can kill them.
..five Taliban prisoners.
5 now? Why not 1000? So if they release these guys does that mean they will feel obligated to pretend to have negotiations?
I suppose when the Taliban publicly moon him, they wont invite the press.
They’re not Taliban. They’re Pakistanis in disguise. Release them, and then be sure to show the Pakistani foreign minister a single MIRV ICBM, with Karachi chalked on the side.
Baraq is one of them
If Obama releases these prisoners without getting Bowe Bergdahl back alive and well, then we all need to riot! We need to make Obama’s Occupiers look like Mother Theresa in comparison.
There is something that I’ve never understood, why haven’t we been trying to free him all along? If we could free those people being held in Somalia, then why couldn’t we free our own soldier?
Peace talks??????? You gotta be joking.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless jihadi savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Like failing to bring justice upon them for decades, instead turning them loose to come at us again.
Cement a trade for Bowe,give the prisoners time released injections,food or pills with cyanide and let them die mysteriously at home.
Personally i’d publicly kill them 1 by 1 until Bowe was released and peace was offered.
Obama will make Jimmy Carter look like Winston Churchill before he’s done…
Another “Fast and Furious” only with terrorists instead of guns.
Give them all sex change operations then release them.
Treasonous to the core.
Islamic pre election loss actions … ?
Al Taqiyya / deception: concealment for personal or corporate gain, preservation or partisan advancement…To practice deceit or guile or circumvention, practice evasion or elusion, to plot, to excercise art or craft or cunning, act with policy, practice strategem…snare or trap or profane or take away from the unsuspecting, the simpleminded, the old, weak or innocent…
Rom 3:13…Their throat is a yawning grave; they use their tongues to deceive (al makir to deal treacherously). “the venom of asps” Psa 5:9 (arabic script / mark of the serpent) is beneath / behind / in control of their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness Psa 10:7 Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery mark their ways. And they have no experience of the Way of Peace (they know nothing about peace, for a peaceful way they do not even acknowledge or recognize) Isa 59:7-8 There is no (reverential) fear of God before their eyes. Psa 36:1
This treaty needs to be ripped to bits
Our warriors shed their blood, for this?
“Your new Senator, Mohammed Atta, D (Gitmo)…”
Alihu Akbar!!! B. Hussein Obama
Everybody since time immemorial has been willing to negotiate with their enemies when necessary.
Turn off the Limbaugh Lies Show you retarded racists piece of crap!
Voters need to keep the GOP as far away as possible from running our foreign policy. For instance, Republican George W. Bush nominated a crook with mob links who is now in prison for corruption to run our Homeland Security. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02…. And he wasted $ trillions of our treasure and tens of thousands of American lives including 4,400 deaths, murdered hundreds of thousands of Iraqi men, women and children with a war based on lies and in the process converted that country from an enemy of Iran into its closest ally. To top it off, Bush tried to hand over our most important ports to a Muslim nation. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11….
And BTW Mr. “pvbeachbum”, the Afghan government is also negotiating with the Taliban. Contrary to what you hear on Fox-Limbaugh, negotiating with enemies is perfectly normal conduct by all governments going back thousands of years.
What a list of traitors to be in the meeting. Everyone of them needs to be kicked out of DC for good. If not up for re-election then impeach them all.