Taliban official swapped for Bowe Bergdahl could return to battlefield, general says

2015-02-03T18:36:12-05:00

Marine Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, who took over as the chief of DIA in January, acknowledged the possibility during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on worldwide threats. Stewart said that over the last five years, about 18 percent of all detainees who have been released from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have “gone back into business” as insurgents and that another 11 percent are suspected of having done so.

“So if those numbers translate, of the five who were transferred, probably one in five could be expected to go back into the business,” Stewart said.

Stewart appeared to be addressing a hypothetical possibility based on recidivism rates among detainees released from Guantanamo. But his remarks could fuel the politically charged debate over the release of the Taliban figures from the military prison.

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Marine Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, the new chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, acknowledged the possibility during a House Armed Services Committee hearing.

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 3 at 2015 7:53 PM

2015-02-03T19:53:54-05:00

As others have said on this forum, SSG Norman Lihou, this is my surprised face. CNN had a similar headline, which was posted right here on RallyPoint:

https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/officials-detainee-swapped-for-bergdahl-suspected-of-militant-activities

There seems to be no stopping these fanatics. They have a very different set of "values" (if you can call it values) than we do.

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Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 14 at 2015 8:03 AM

2015-10-14T08:03:20-04:00

I hope we are not surprised by that, those people got their minds set all ready on fighting and killing us. By the way we are in this holy war for a long time and i hope everyone here knows this. Lets start preparing our children now for posibility that they at one point may be involved in it. This war between muslims and christians has been going on for centuries and it is not going to end any time soon.