Afghanistan condemns U.S. prisoner exchange. Bowe Bergdahl exchanged with five senior Taliban detainees at Guantanamo

Bergdahl adalah tentara AS terakhir yang ditahan oleh Taliban di Afghanistan.

Mullah Mohammed Omar has never appeared since leaving Afghanistan in 2001. 

Afghanistan condemns U.S. prisoner exchange. Bowe Bergdahl exchanged with five senior Taliban detainees at Guantanamo



The Afghan government has expressed anger over the U.S. agreement regarding the exchange of five Taliban militants with an American soldier who was detained Taliban.

Five senior militants from the Taliban has been released from custody Guantamo Bay to Qatar in return for the release of Bowe Bergdahl Click, an American soldier who had been detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Afghan government confirms handover of prisoners to third countries is an act contrary to international law.

"We firmly oppose it. Qatar and we want the U.S. government to let them free," a statement from the Afghan Foreign Ministry as reported by the BBC correspondent in Kabul, David Loyn.

At the hospital
 The Foreign Ministry also confirmed that based on international law and human rights conventions exchanged prisoners were to be freed.

Meanwhile Taliban prisoner release mentions this as a victory.

"I would like to convey my congratulations to the entire Muslim nation of Afghanistan," said Taliban leader Mullah Omar in a statement on Sunday (01/06).

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel defended the exchanges, saying officials should take action in a short time because they believe Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl's life is threatened.

Bergdahl is now undergoing healing in a hospital in Germany.
Five Afghan prisoners freed forbidden to leave Qatar at least one year.

But correspondents say many people worry they will recombine with the Taliban and launch further attacks.

U.S. soldier who was detained for nearly five years by the Taliban finally freed in return for the release of five Afghan detainees, U.S. officials said.

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, 28, were released in good health.

Soldiers from Idaho, was arrested June 30, 2009, approximately two months after arriving in eastern Afghanistan.

President Barack Obama said the United States "share the joy" over the release of the soldiers.

Bergdahl is the only U.S. soldier held by the Taliban in Afghanistan.

A senior official told the BBC, that when Bergdahl was taken by U.S. aircraft, he writes "SF?" (Special force?) - Ask if they are of special forces - in a paper plate shown to the pilot.

"Yes, we have been looking for you for a long time," replied the pilot.
"When it's also, Sergeant Bergdahl cry," officials said.

Meanwhile, instead of five Afghan prisoners released from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and handed in Qatar, a country that mediate the peace process.

Also welcomed the release of five Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan "very happy", AFP reported

Five people have been arrested since 2002, Mohammad Fazl, Khirullah Khairkhwa, Abdul Haq Wasiq, Mullah Norullah Noori, and Mohammad Nabi Omari.

In the agreement, the prisoners are prohibited from leaving Qatar for a year.
BBC