Originally Posted by Rochard

We aren't really jeopardizing anyone. For the most part we are pulling out. Mission accomplished, we removed the Taliban from power, destroy the so called "base" of Al-Qaeda, and killed Osama.

Do we even know who the five Taliban are? We keep hearing horror stories about them but yet we seem to know nothing. Fazl, for example, was the Taliban?s former deputy defense minister. This is like arresting the Secretary of the Navy. Wasiq was a former deputy minister of intelligence who cooperated with US troops but withheld information from us. Khairkhwa, a former Taliban governor of Herat, was more of a heroin trafficker than a Taliban. This is like arresting the governor of California. One of them of them was a police officer.

All of them were active during the invasion, have been out of circulation for some time - nearly a decade, and all of them have given information to the US. It's possible that the Taliban might just kill them on sight.