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AFGHANISTAN criticised the United States government today for doing a deal with the Taliban at the weekend to secure the release of US soldier Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.
The Afghan Foreign Ministry called the swap of five Taliban prisoners held at the US base in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay for Sgt Bergdahl “against the norms of international law” if it took place against the Taliban detainees’ will.
The ministry said: “No state can transfer another country’s citizen to a third country and put restriction on their freedom.”
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, Ruhal Ahmed, one of the Britons held at Guantanamo Bay and subsequently released without charge or apology, said: “If the US are able to release five leaders of a group they are currently facing at war in Afghanistan, questions have to be asked about why it is that Britain, its closest ally, cannot successfully negotiate the release of the last British resident in Guantanamo, Shaker Aamer.”
