Yet another example of the lengths of bullshit the defenders of indefinite detainment will go to. This guy joins other examples like the Bosnian whos "return to the battlefield" consisted of writing an op-ed for the New York Times.

KABUL, Afghanistan Haji Sahib Rohullah Wakil spends his days going from one high-level official meeting to another with the swagger of a tribal elder, advocating for the needs of Kunar province, his home region.

Each encounter with President Hamid Karzai, with Karzai's chief of staff or with one of Afghanistan's other presidential candidates begins the same: They thank him for his honorable service to the people of Kunar.

Despite those endorsements, the Pentagon says that Wakil is among 74 former Guantanamo Bay detainees who've returned to or are suspected of returning to terrorism after their release from the island prison camp.

Wakil scoffs at the suggestion. So do those who know him.

"How could he be a terrorist? He is never far off the government's radar," leading Afghan presidential candidate Mirwise Yaseeni said. "His family is here. I have never known him to do anything criminal."

Pentagon officials didn't respond to a request for comment on why Wakil was included in a report that was leaked in May. The report itself says only that Wakil has "associations with terrorist groups."

The discovery that Wakil, far from being in hiding, operates openly among officials of Afghanistan's U.S.-allied government raises questions about the report's credibility, however. Despite his bravado, Wakil acknowledges that the report has him worried that he'll be detained again.

Never out of his reach are a stack of legal documents, letters signed by scores of high-ranking officials and frayed newspaper clippings that he believes prove that he isn't and never has been a terrorist. Documents in hand, he's always prepared to make the case he was never given the opportunity to make at Guantanamo.

"For six years, I was ready to go to court and defend myself. They should show the world their proof against me," Wakil said. "I am ready to answer any question."

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Yet another example of the lengths of bullshit the defenders of indefinite detainment will go to. This guy joins other examples like the Bosnian whos "return to the battlefield" consisted of writing an op-ed for the New York Times.

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not to mention the Uighurs in China..  The idiocy of the last administration will be with us for years.

Jim...