Via Newsweek: Next No. 2 for Taliban could be former Guantánamo detainee released by Bush

[kpete]

Next No. 2 for Taliban could be former Guantánamo detainee released by Bush
by Joe Sudbay (DC) on 2/17/2010 10:37:00 AM
Via Newsweek:
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/02/16/taliban-promotion-scorecard-who-will-replace-mullah-baradar.aspx

*****The capture last week of Mullah Baradar Akhund, the Taliban's No. 2 leader, is expected to spark a leadership reshuffle within the organization's Afghan branch. One jihadist who could step up to take Baradar's place: Mullah Abdul Qayam Zakir, a ruthless former Guantánamo detainee released back to Afghanistan by the Bush administration.

Okay, now imagine the uproar if the last two words of that paragraph were "Obama administration."
http://www.americablog.com/2010/02/next-no-2-for-taliban-could-be-former.html

[hobbit709]

1. Is this gonna be like all the Al Qaida #2s?

[Robb]

2. No.

And Zakir doesn't have the popularity to unite the factions Baradar did. He may try to step up, but it won't work.

[yellowcanine]

3. But thank God Bush did not "Mirandize" that terrorist and treat him like an ordinary criminal!