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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwa
Khairkhwa is the former governor of the Herat province and has close ties with Usama bin Laden and Mullah Omar.  According to the Joint Task Force Guantanamo file, [b]Khairkhwa “represented the Taliban during meetings with Iranian officials seeking to support hostilities against US and coalition forces.”[/b] [b]Khairkhwa and his deputies are suspected of being associated with an extremist military training camp run by the Al Qaeda commander Abu Musab al Zarqawi, who was killed in 2006.[/b] U.S. authorities have also accused Khairkhwa of becoming a powerful opium trafficker.
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There is an issue with the so-called "evidence" against this guy. I'm not sure when Khairkhwa was captured, but according to Wikipedia he arrived at Gitmo in May 2002. Zarqawi was not involved in attacking Americans until we invaded Iraq which was in 2003 -- after Khairkhwa was already at Gitmo. Zarqawi apparently had a camp in Herat for a year or two before the US invasion of Afghanistan. But, I don't see any evidence that those at the camp did much of anything (Wikipedia says they were infiltrated by Jordanian intelligence). I don't think you can tie Khairkhwa to the killings of any Americans.

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