Taliban commander who returned to Afghanistan as recruiter for ISIS after he was freed from Guantánamo Bay is killed in drone strike
Initially I thought this was one of the Taliban 5… it's not. But I guarantee you one day you'll be reading about them. This guy was captured during the Bush administration and turned over to Afghan authorities where he later escaped "house arrest".
Over the years we listened to Lib's bitch and moan about waterboarding and how cruel it is... while infidels are beheaded and set afire in the Muslim world. We don't have the balls to try them in a military tribunal which would in all likelihood end with the death penalty. So what to do? Release them so ultimately they can be killed by a drone. As you can see a lot of planning went into this.
BTW...they should have checked with Eric Shultz to find out if you pledge allegiance to ISIS if you're still considered an "armed insurgent".
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Mullah Abdul Rauf, 33, killed by NATO drone strike along with son-in-law
The former Guantánamo Bay detainee recently pledged allegiance to ISIS
The ex-Taliban commander claimed to be recruiting fighters for ISIS
By Thomas Burrows for MailOnline
Published: 07:57 EST, 9 February 2015 | Updated: 18:09 EST, 9 February 2015
Mullah Abdul Rauf, 33, was killed by a NATO drone
A former Guantánamo Bay detainee who recently pledged allegiance to ISIS has been killed in Afghanistan.
Mullah Abdul Rauf, 33, was killed by a NATO drone strike along with his son-in-law and six others as they drove through Kajaki district in the volatile southern province of Helmand, Afghan officials said.
Rauf, an ex-Taliban commander, declared allegiance to Isis in January, and claimed to be recruiting fighters on behalf of the group which holds large swaths of Syria and Iraq.
He was branded by the Washington Post last month as 'the shadowy figure recruiting for the Islamic State in Afghanistan.'
A Pakistani militant commander said Rauf had been an important liaison between various factions which have broken away from the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban movements in recent months.
His defection had caused deadly infighting and raised fears the movement was gaining footholds in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
A statement from Resolute Support, the new name for the NATO mission in Afghanistan, said 'coalition forces conducted a precision strike in Helmand province today, resulting in the death of eight individuals threatening the force'.
Mohammad Jan Rasulyar, the deputy governor of Helmand, said the strike hit the militants' vehicle at around 10am.
Mullah Abdul Rauf, 33, was killed by a NATO drone strike along with his son-in-law and six others as they drove through Kajaki district in the volatile southern province of Helmand
Rauf was detained by the US in 2001 and spent six years in Guantánamo Bay, in Cuba (pictured)
Rauf, also known as Abdul Rauf Aliza, had a long history of insurgency.
He was detained by the US in 2001 and spent six years in Guantánamo, where he claimed he was nothing more than a bread delivery man for the Taliban.
According to a document released by WikiLeaks, American interrogators suspected at the time Rauf had more influence than he claimed.
But he was released to Afghanistan for further detention in 2007.
In Kabul, he managed to escape from house arrest and in 2011 acted as the Taliban's shadow governor in Uruzgan province
Rauf then formed a splinter group of fighters after falling out with the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, and recently clashed with a Taliban unit in Helmand's Sangin district.
Locals say Rauf's men, numbering around 300, were often in conflict with Taliban officials in Helmand.
There have been fears of ISIS making inroads in Afghanistan since US-led NATO forces ended their combat mission in late December, after 13 years of fighting.
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