By Tom Lasseter | McClatchy Newspapers
KABUL, Afghanistan — When U.S. guards frog-marched Abdul Salam Zaeef through the cellblocks of Guantanamo, detainees would roar his name, “Mullah Zaeef! Mullah Zaeef!” Zaeef, in shackles, looked at the guards and smiled. “The soldiers told me, ‘You are the king of this prison,’ ” he later recalled.
Abdul Salam Zaeef, [...]
by Eric Walberg
The Taliban’s Tet has begun. Interpret Laura Bushs’s clarion call “to stand by Afghanistan” as you will, says Eric Walberg
Two landmarks in Afghanistan last week — British troop deaths surpassed 100, and monthly official coalition deaths now outnumber official coalition deaths in Iraq. Pentagon officials said that in May, 16 coalition [...]
Amir Attaran
Citizen Special
Today, the Taliban is celebrating its Bastille Day. The dramatic jailbreak at Kandahar’s Sarposa Prison — which freed not some prisoners, but nearly all 1,000 prisoners in the jail — is a massive strategic blow for the Canadian Forces. And it was totally avoidable.
In a single, bold night raid, the Taliban freed nearly [...]
Guantanamo Bay News
