Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday practically blew his top when he discovered that five Taliban leaders captured in Afghanistan were freed from U.S. custody in a prisoner swap for an American Army sergeant, according to reports in the Middle East.
Karzai reportedly said that President Barack Obama's actions to retrieve Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl violated an agreement he had with the Obama administration.
“Recently, five Afghan nationals were released in an exchange for Mr. Bowe Bergdahl, and have been transferred to Qatar, which was against a prior understanding with the Afghan government,” Karzai said in his official statement released on Monday.
According to Ahmad Shakaib Mustaghni of the Afghan Foreign Ministry, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had promised Karzai during a telephone conversation that custody of the Taliban detainees exchanged for Bergdahl would be returned to Afghan police custody.
But now it was revealed to the world that these upper-echelon terrorists were instead turned over to Qatar, where supposedly they will be kept under close surveillance with their movements restricted for at least 12-months as per a Qatar brokered deal between the Obama White House and the Taliban.
http://www.examiner.com/article/kar...an-prisoners-swap?CID=examiner_alerts_article
Karzai reportedly said that President Barack Obama's actions to retrieve Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl violated an agreement he had with the Obama administration.
“Recently, five Afghan nationals were released in an exchange for Mr. Bowe Bergdahl, and have been transferred to Qatar, which was against a prior understanding with the Afghan government,” Karzai said in his official statement released on Monday.
According to Ahmad Shakaib Mustaghni of the Afghan Foreign Ministry, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had promised Karzai during a telephone conversation that custody of the Taliban detainees exchanged for Bergdahl would be returned to Afghan police custody.
But now it was revealed to the world that these upper-echelon terrorists were instead turned over to Qatar, where supposedly they will be kept under close surveillance with their movements restricted for at least 12-months as per a Qatar brokered deal between the Obama White House and the Taliban.
http://www.examiner.com/article/kar...an-prisoners-swap?CID=examiner_alerts_article
