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It will be okat. We told them that if they do not do what we want, we will slap their wrists.


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US secretly releasing Taliban fighters
By: CTJ
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Mon, 07 May 12 9:23 PM
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US secretly releasing Taliban fighters, report says
FOX/NewsCore ^ | May 07, 2012

The US has been secretly releasing captured Taliban fighters from a detention center in Afghanistan in a bid to strengthen its hand in peace talks with the insurgent group, the Washington Post reported Monday.

The "strategic release" program of high-level detainees is designed to give the US a bargaining chip in some areas of Afghanistan where international forces struggle to exercise control, the report said.

Under the risky program, the hardened fighters must promise to give up violence and are threatened with further punishment, but there is nothing to stop them resuming attacks against Afghan and American troops.

Read more at foxnews.com ...
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/07/us-secretly-releasing-taliban-fighters-report-says/


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