A Taliban commander held at the US military base in Guantanamo and released by US authorities in July is now back in Afghanistan in charge of attacks against US forces there, according to a report released Sunday. Sources in Pakistan and Afghanistan told Time magazine that Mullah Shehzada, who was among 16 Afghans freed from the US base in Cuba, masterminded a jailbreak in Kandahar in October in which 41 captured Taliban burrowed under prison walls with help from bribed guards. A deputy to Taliban army chief Mullah Fazal Mazloom before his capture during the late 2001 Afghanistan war, Shehzada seized control of Taliban operations against US forces and their Afghan allies in the southern part of the country once he was back in Afghanistan. Asked why Shehzada had resumed attacks on US forces, Taliban spokesman Hamid Agha said: âOnce a Taliban always a Taliban. Now he wants revenge.â The Pentagon declined to comment on the report, the newsweekly said.
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