{"id":47559,"date":"2022-08-17T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T05:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/aug\/17\/freeing-of-terrorist-who-killed-australian-soldiers-shows-how-the-us-gave-taliban-leverage-despite-allies-objections"},"modified":"2022-08-17T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T05:29:35","slug":"freeing-of-terrorist-who-killed-australian-soldiers-shows-how-the-us-gave-taliban-leverage-despite-allies-objections-ahmad-shuja-jamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47559","title":{"rendered":"Freeing of terrorist who killed Australian soldiers shows how the US gave Taliban leverage despite allies&#8217; objections | Ahmad Shuja Jamal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many prisoners released under the US-Taliban deal took up arms again and then overran Kabul<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free news app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning email briefing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of the Taliban freed under the Doha Agreement took up arms, providing a deadly illustration of how the US-Taliban deal undermined the viability of the Afghan republic.<\/p>\n<p>Hekmatullah, a Taliban infiltrator serving as a sergeant in the Afghan National Army, was involved in a so-called \u201cgreen on blue\u201d turncoat attack that killed three Australian soldiers in Uruzgan in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/aug\/17\/freeing-of-terrorist-who-killed-australian-soldiers-shows-how-the-us-gave-taliban-leverage-despite-allies-objections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many prisoners released under the US-Taliban deal took up arms again and then overran KabulGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastMany of the Taliban freed under the Doha Agreement took up arms, providing a deadly illustrati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43,645,1585,61,44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-military","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47560,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47559\/revisions\/47560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}