“On Jan. 20, 2007, five American soldiers were killed and three seriously wounded in Iraq. As Bill Roggio relates at the Long War Journal, it was a daring operation: a twelve-man terrorist team disguised as U.S. servicemen attacked our troops as they held a previously arranged meeting with local officials in Karbala. Four of the soldiers were alive when they were abducted from the scene. They were handcuffed and murdered in a remote location when the coalition forces attempting to rescue them closed in.”

A few months later Qais Qazali, Laith Qazali and Ali Mussa Daqduq were captured, along with documents that confirmed they were agents of Iran responsible for organizing and directing terror cells in Iraq. Hundreds of US servicemen and women and thousands of innocent Iraqis died horribly because of them. What these Iranians did were war crimes, from the killing of civilians to the execution of prisoners. They likely took part in operations themselves; in fact the attackers in Karbala were so expertly disguised as American soldiers their equipment and vehicles were very likely supplied directly by Iran.

“About two weeks ago, the Obama administration released Laith Qazali after extensive negotiations with the Asaib al-Haq terror network. That network has long been in negotiations with the fledgling Iraqi government, dangling the possibility of laying down its arms, renouncing violence, and integrating into Iraqi society, provided that its top members – particularly Qais and Laith Qazali, as well as Ali Mussa Daqduq – be released.”

From AmericanThinker

Has more details on this story.

Do you feel safer with these decisions made in the favor of terrorists for some pipe dream of buying peace with a sect of people that hate Americans?

The release of these people is not generally broadcast to the general population, it will likely be newsworthy when these people start attacking us on our soil.

Do you feel safer now?

…so we may have received something in return. Did the Iranians pull their infiltrators out of Iraq? Did they at least apologize for the deaths of hundreds of our troops at the hands of Iranians and Iranian-supplied weapons? Did they even pledge to stop at all?

Ed, what part of “without preconditions” did you not understand?

From the AP:

Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters that the U.S. released the five to the Iraqi government because it was obliged to do so under a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that took effect several months ago. Whether they are now set free is up to the Iraqis.

Hmm, was that agreement negotiated under Bush or Obama?

hope we fed them well while they were our guests. And allowed them to watch all the TV they wanted…

unclesmrgol on July 9, 2009 at 1:43 PM

I understand we also gave them cute little bunny slippers

Phoenician on July 9, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Well, that proves it then.

The great and wise Obama returns five terrorists

Kindly refrain from using the “T” word. That was just a scary-word invented by Bush/Cheney so the American public would acquiesce in their Halliburton Wars.

/sarc

Michelle Dubois on July 9, 2009 at 12:39 PM

LOL Now that’s talent I can believe in. Well played.

Stay safe now…

Barrak Hussein Bin Washington

God help this nation that we can get him out of Washington before they do irreparable damage to the Republic.

This is ground control to Obama’s Balls
You’ve really failed the grade
And the papers want to know where the hell you went
Now it’s time to come back home, if you care.

This is Obama’s Balls to ground control
We’re stepping through the door
And we’re floating in the most peculiar way
And we like it up here, so we must say: nay

When the guys in the Field here about this?

Let alone the Vets now disabled due to IEDs manufactured in Iran?

When will I stop reading stories with this guy’s face over them? It only serves to tick me off every time.

If you voted for this fool, how do you sleep at night?