IN AFGHANISTAN A HERO’S FUNERAL FOR GITMO TERRORIST

Posted By Ruth King on February 9th, 2011

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110207/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan

Hundreds attend funeral of Guantanamo Bay detainee

By ADAM SCHRECK,

KABUL, Afghanistan – Hundreds of mourners, some chanting anti-American slogans, turned out Monday for the funeral of an Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo Bay who collapsed and died while exercising at the U.S. detention center last week.

The mourners ran alongside a vehicle carrying the body of 48-year-old Awal Gul — the seventh detainee to die at the detention center in Cuba since it was opened in January 2002. Gul’s body was wrapped in white cloth, but his face and long, black beard were visible inside the coffin, which was buried in Jalalabad, east of Kabul.

The U.S. military said he was an “an admitted Taliban recruiter” who met several times with Osama bin Laden….

Separately, Afghanistan’s High Peace Council has asked for the release of Khairullah Khairkhwa, a former Taliban official who has been held at Guantanamo for more than eight years, so he can help facilitate peace talks between the government and Taliban leaders.

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