No denying this is a huge victory for the Taliban.
Via Daily Mail:
A pro-Taliban website has published a video that claims to show Taliban detainees arriving in Qatar after being released from Guantanamo Bay as part of a prisoner exchange.
In the footage, released by nunn.asia, a group of people, mainly men, wearing traditional Muslim dress gather on a roadside in what is said to be Qatar. The five men who were switched for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, were to be sent to Qatar where they will remain for a year.
When the men pull up in a convoy of black SUVs, they receive a warm reception, with lots of hugs from the awaiting supporters.
Everyone is clearly jubilant that the prisoners are free and have been released into the custody of Qatar.
The clumsily edited footage is accompanied by hypnotic Arabic music.
The five detainees – Mohammad Fazl, Khairullah Khairkhwa, Mullah Norullah Noori, Mohammed Nabi and Abdul Haq Wasiq – are thought to be the most senior Afghans who were held at the U.S. detention facility in Cuba, having been captured during America’s military campaign in 2001.
Update: But don’t worry, they don’t pose any threat to America or our troops in Afghanistan.
HT: Jay