In this Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, photo, Maulvi Niaz Mohammad, 45, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press inside the Pul-e-Charkhi jail in Kabul, Afghanistan. Thousands of Taliban prisoners jailed as insurgents see a peace deal being hammered out in Qatar as their ticket to freedom. Prisoner release is a key pillar of any agreement the U.S. strikes with the Taliban to end Afghanistan’s 18-year war.
The Associated Press interviewed more than a dozen Taliban prisoners inside the notorious Pul-e-Charkhi jail on the eastern edge of the capital, Kabul. Several of them were nostalgic for the Taliban’s Afghanistan, ruled by the mighty hand of their previous leader, the reclusive one-eyed Mullah Mohammed Omar, who died several years ago.
On Sunday, the Taliban ruling council agreed to a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan, providing a window in which a peace agreement with the U.S. can be signed, Taliban officials said. They didn’t say when it would begin. The around 3,000 prisoners classified as Taliban are in their own block. The caution, even fear, felt by the guards and the administrators was unmistakable as they entered the Taliban’s cell block, protected by a phalanx of guards in armored vests and helmets, carrying bulky weapons that fire tear gas shells. Behind them on the dimly lit stairs were another half dozen guards, also in vests and helmets, automatic weapons at the ready.
Maulvi Niaz Mohammad emerged as the leader among the prisoners, although no one identified him as such. He was convicted to 15 years. During the Taliban rule, he served with Qari Ahmadullah, a Taliban intelligence commander who controlled much of northern Afghanistan. One Taliban prisoner who gave his name only as Maulvi Sahab, saying he feared reprisals, said Taliban prisoners were beaten and taunted by guards. Dozens of prisoners were still in prison even after their sentences have been completed, sometimes for one week, one for a year, he said.
kgannon Figures
kgannon A condition of their release s/b that they're 'chipped' so we have an accurate record of the havoc they will most surely wreak.
kgannon Peace agreement between POTUS realDonaldTrump UnitedStates & US retreat: NATO Afghanistan Mission: Retreat. International law: Who are US contract partners -legal entity? Same questions on ISIS killings: ISIS fighters soldiers: GenevaConvention or criminals: trial
kgannon Human beings in general are brutal, which is why we’re the only hominids left.
kgannon Meanwhile, our “president” is too busy rage tweeting and using taxpayer money at his golf properties to read his briefing memos
kgannon realDonaldTrump … adding to tyranny out there so we remain completely blind to his terrorism here.
kgannon Let’s just get out of Afghanistan. The USSR was destroyed by Afghanistan and many Empires before them
kgannon As a person who has deployed there in a combat role, I can tell you that these men are not going to live peaceful lives. They’ll beat women, rape little boys, and contribute to the death and destruction. 💯
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kgannon Let them Rot in prison until they figure out women aren’t camels.
kgannon THESE PEOPLE NEED TO BE EXECUTED=THEY CAN NOT LIVE AMONG NORMAL PEOPLE.. IF U SAW THE GUDEO OF OUR MEN SCREAMING IN AGONY AS THE FIRE BURNED THEM ALIVE...I THINK U MUST AGREE...OR SOMEDAY IT COULD BE U OR UR SON IN THAT BURNING CAGE! THEY CAN NOT BE SAVED!
kgannon EXCUSS ME...BUT DONT WE HAVE VUDE,S OF TALIBAN, ISIS MARCHING US CAPTIVES DRESSED IN ORANGE JUMP SWETS ON A BEACH AND LOCKING THEM IN CAGES THAT WERE IN A STRAGHT LINE=THEN THROWING A GAS CAN IN EACH CAGE (14) AND THROWING A LIT MATCH ONTO EACH..THEN LAUGHUNG THEIR HEADS OFF?
kgannon No
kgannon Nah.
kgannon Nuke 'em.
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