Taliban Appoint Ex-Guantanamo Bay Detainee As New Afghan Government Defence Minister

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir has been appointed as the Taliban's acting defence minister after the group's takeover of Afghanistan, according to reports. Above: Zakir is believed by online sources to be the man fifth from left in this image, which shows Taliban fighters after they had stormed the presidential palace in Kabul last week. According to Arab news site Alarby , Zakir was in charge of the force who entered the palace  

Daily Mail: Taliban appoint ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee who was released in 2007 under George W Bush and went on to become Taliban military mastermind as new Afghan government defence minister 

* Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir was reportedly released from Guantanamo in 2007 

* Was originally arrested by US forces after their invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 

* Zakir was in charge of force who entered the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul 

A former Guantanamo Bay detainee has been appointed as the Taliban's acting defence minister after the group's takeover of Afghanistan, according to reports. 

Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir, who was born in 1973, was released from the notorious Cuba-based camp, which is run by the US, during George W Bush's Presidency in 2007, according to Arab news sources. 

He was originally arrested by US forces after their invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.  

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WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction. There will be more ex-Guantanamo detainees in the new Taliban government.

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