Prisoners for Peace: Management Trump Mulls Releasing Taliban Drug Kingpin in push-Afghan peace talks

In 2005, Mr. Taliban financier and the Afghan drug Haji Bashir Noorzai flew from Dubai to New York, a deal with American officials with the Taliban to beat the rest. Or so he thought. It was a trap. DEA officials met him and arrested him for his heroin operations around the world who have been financing the Taliban war machine from for years. It was tried in the Southern District of New York and sentenced to life in federal prison. That was then. Now the administration Trump is considering skipping Noorzai. Trying his February 29 Friedensabkomme do well on the Taliban manage to entertain the desire of the militant group Noorzai issue – and every last prisoner of the Taliban at Guantanamo – to get to the former rulers of Afghanistan to put their current ground leadership for talks. Mullah Baradar Akhund asked Secretary Mike Pompeo As co-founder of the Taliban for the release of prisoners, the end of July, the American envoy to Afghanistan Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad quietly suggested setting free Noorzai, a senior administrative official and a senior Western official said, although that would mean one of the top drug kingpin in the world has put back on the road. The application must be received in one piece with the advancement of the success of the US envoy for the Afghan government to agree on a final tranche of 400 Taliban prisoners from the detention to dismiss, to meet one of the conditions in the current Taliban US-Taliban deal and the former, Afghan and Western officials say. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the confidential discussions. The Afghan government has released 4,600 of the 5,000 prisoners who were part of the agreement. President Ashraf Ghani was free hesitated to call the rest of the group, some of which carried out deadly attacks against US and NATO troops, Afghan forces and Afghan civilians. After Khalilzad to urge their release Ghani finally demonstrate moved after the approval of tribal Afghan leaders August 9 tandem fuse agreed to unleash potentially dangerous will to Trump Taliban administration actors in the country to return to the next round of peace talks started to obtain and in return provides enough of a reduction in violence for use from 4000 to 5000 US troops to justify that President Donald Trump announced in a recent interview AXIOS. It would be the small contingent of US troops to be on the ground in Afghanistan after the US invasion after 9/11. If Trump can be made before November 3 there may be popular with voters, the American soldiers want long, messy wars. Trump has agreed a to removal of all US troops by May 2021 the agreement in February. Ghani said Thursday that he would not have had a loya jirga convened publication without the US request for approval, but said that the logout national consensus reported Afghan elders. “Up to this topic, there was a consensus for peace, but not for the cost of it. Now we paid the main cost rate, and that means peace will have consequences,” he said, answering a question of time during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. “The list is likely to be a danger to ask both for us and for you, and why does drug traffickers and criminals of the world.” Many of the prisoners who Ghani agreed to release convicted murderers, and some have links with al-Qaeda, the US war party was to eliminate current and former Afghan officials say. Noorzai called into action, and would add another player with experience in the global drug trade, already say Afghanistan is the largest producer of the world’s heroin, the proceeds of Western officials, the funding of the end of the Taliban. “They’re looking at business as usual to go back,” said Gretchen Peters, who studies the Afghan drugs trade and now runs the private intelligence organization that networks criminals CINTOC traces hidden. “Haji Bashir Noorzai had sponsors and protectors of the Taliban, the original” man of heroin exporting and importing weapons, he says. For US allies, the release of Afghan prisoners is the latest in a series of Gut-punches and surprises foreign policy. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison told reporters that he has called for the release of an insider attack Trump sentenced to stop an Afghan soldier killed three Australian soldiers. Thursday ‘, Ghani has also confirmed receiving the Australian request. “My heart goes out to the families,” he said in response to a question of time. “It ‘a heinous crime, and we’ll see how we can solve it.” This Australian soldiers and other NATO soldiers were only in the country due invoked after 9/11, the US-NATO Article 5, a clause, the other members requires you to come to the rescue. Now NATO members fear Trump is one of the first full drawdown announced that two senior EU officials could their vulnerable nations can say anonymous mention their frustrations with to discuss what they see as once reliable ally. “We went to war for them, and we are not able to stay in the country without them,” said one of the officials, adding that the Europeans are worried that they bear the brunt of future attacks if Afghanistan once again a safe harbor for terrorists will leave when US troops. For Ghani government, the push to free the prisoners is another in a series of was what Afghan officials describe as a bullying administration Trump claims. Several Afghan officials say the prisoner release pledge Khalilzad personal ambition, his reputation and legacy “bring our troops home” are driven on the promise of providing burnish Trump – or at least the numbers become less than 8,600 soldiers from Obama Administration Trump left there when he took office. was how European officials fear many Afghan officials Trump suddenly the US troops in the coming months to retreat, leave at the mercy of the Taliban or simply follows withdraw using fully with the request of February 29 contract until May 2021, regardless of the state of intra-Afghan negotiations. They are pinning their hopes on a victory by former Vice President Joe Biden, who hold them in a small US force against terrorism would be in the country to believe. Ghani was roll every step of the slowly approaching elections in the United States, say Afghan officials and Western current and former. At the request of the Guantanamo prisoners and Noorzai Taliban it seems to pull their feet or trying to squeeze the last possible gains by an administration that Trump could be gone by January. “The United States would now have had some serious contortions pass to make this happen,” a former senior official of the US Defense, said, speaking anonymously because he still works in the region. But he says a man again in addition to the drug scene has so much influence on a country that already go into global production of heroin results. “It ‘a power play by the Taliban,” he says. “They’re just trying to make it as difficult as possible to get around the table.” The Taliban might regret moving when Biden wins, adds the former official. “The Taliban should know Biden believes the right to approach the war, counterterrorism plus’zurück in 2009. I do not think that has changed.” If negotiations with the Taliban under the current deal go through, he says former officials “a possible outcome in the long term, but small anti-terrorist” US presence that stays of a decade or more. Rush to the Secretary of Defense Mark Esper outputs, he said the US military to be produced in 5,000 troops withdrawal, pro Trump interview. Two senior Afghan officials now say that the commander of US forces in Afghanistan Scott Miller and the CIA has assured his government that 4,500 US troops would be sufficient to keep the hunting ISIS and al-Qaeda, and support the security forces Afghan Taliban and others to withstand the attacks of the militants with a combination of support of air combat drones and other surveillance and special operators and US intelligence officials. The CIA declined to comment, but officially confirmed a military high US ranks that Miller “comfortable” is that with the lowest number, he may be denied “terrorists safe haven and Afghan military and defense and security forces national support for finding a political solution to work. “Both Afghan and US military officials spoke on condition of anonymity. The growing pressure on the Afghan government Trump Directors on the release of all 5,000 Taliban prisoners shows just how bad the president wants to leave Afghanistan. The promise, she was in the US-Taliban deal, but it was never agreed or shared with Afghan officials signed the agreement, Afghan officials say. soon created some friction, but by mid-March Ghani reluctance “up to 5,000 prisoners” in batches of about 100 to release the one agreed by Afghan officials examined each case and 4,600 have been released so far. Receivables 1,000 Taliban Afghan security personnel is released across the country, in return, however. The last 400 or contains so many that Afghan and NATO officials consider to be incompatible not only those sentenced to death, kidnappers and drug traffickers, but the manufacturer of bombs and a handful of foreign extremists of al-Qaeda allies who were more likely return to current and former Afghan officials on the battlefield. The Afghan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib has said publicly that at least five of the prisoners were behind major terrorist attacks. The spokesman Ghani Sediq Sediqqi TIME sent Thursday that the Afghan government “has shared the details of some of the prisoners who are and will be a threat to our international allies, or those who are our threats allies to national security as a result of” further, but it went to comment on the nature of the charges against those in Afghanistan wants released. As months dragged on and the last group of prisoners in the next phase of peace talks stalled, the National Security Advisor, Robert O’Brien said in a phone call with Ghani July 17. Listen to the concerns Ghani O’Brien, was wrong, he should dissolve, three high-ranking Afghan officials and a senior Western official tell Time. A senior administration official confirmed there was the O’Brien-Ghani call, but declined to comment on the issue of Taliban prisoners. Ghani Sediqqi spokesman declined to comment on the content of the call. But if Khalilzad visited Kabul later this month to meet after the first leg of the Taliban delegation in Doha, Qatar, Ghani said that the Taliban were still on the release of the last group insisted otherwise the militants would “intensify the violence,” one of the senior Afghan officials said. If Ghani agreed to their publication, but Khalilzad said the Taliban had agreed that they would immediately start the intra-Afghan dialogue in Doha, to end the fighting between the Taliban and the Afghan government, made for all three Afghan officials . Pompey Khalilzad repeated application in a follow-up phone call to Ghani, two officials say. Shortly after, the Afghan president Loya Jirga joined by senior senior Afghan vote on the issue of what is an opaque process that gave him political cover at home, so derjenigediejenigedasjenige Older never complained view a list who voted to solve. The spokesman said Ghani Sediqqi for Afghan media that there were no foreigners among the Taliban prisoners were released, but confirmed time Thursday that the government “does not share the names and characteristics of the 400 prisoners with the delegates of the Loya Jirga” . One to be begin the older Afghan officials say released prisoners “within days”, but still it will be all of their release until the Taliban about two missing dozens on the site where Afghan soldiers, mostly commandos brought back – and / or sign a statement for the families of missing persons, persons not in their care, so that families get little ‘rest. This could mean further delays for talks that begin timidly around the middle of August were planned. A Taliban spokesman rejected the characterization of the last 400 prisoners as dangerous for the coalition forces, adding that there are no foreigners were among them either. “This is what I say spoiler peace agreement, claiming to create obstacles in the way of a peaceful solution of the Afghan issue. They are political prisoners as the other” prisoners Suhail Shaheen says TIME Doha. “There was resistance to foreign occupation. Both sides attack each day, but our losses are often more of them because we lacked advanced weapons. However, we now have an agreement.” What Noorzai confirmed that Mullah Baradar Shaheen He asked for his release, and the prisoners at Guantanamo. A representative for Khalilzad declined to comment on whether he had recommended to release the known drug dealer who once promised the CIA after 9/11 that Osama bin Laden would help track his drug empire wins just to get back to racing his The freedom. The State Department did not respond to a request for comment on Noorzai or Pompey talks with Ghani. A senior DEA agent involved in Noorzai arrest was resigned to the fact freed and stressed that Khalilzad already secured the release of another Taliban drug lord, Haji Juma Khan, asking for help for the table that received the Taliban in 2018. the Noorzai agent called “the biggest heroin dealer in the world and one of the founders of the Shura Taliban in Afghanistan.” “My concern is that if someone thinks that they go home and food bags to come back … I’m not,” the former senior DEA official says. “They will get where they left off with a vengeance – and will be addressed in the United States of America.” This post has been updated to reflect a growth story, additional reporting.
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