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White House: US Has ‘Updated’ Monitoring of Released Taliban

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013015 WhiteHouse?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1422662228733Pete Souza / The White House(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. has updated its efforts to monitor the Taliban detainees released from Guantanamo in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the White House said on Friday.

“None of these individuals has returned to the battlefield, none of them is allowed to travel outside of Qatar, and none has engaged in physical violence,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said, when asked about reports that one of the five Taliban fighters has made contact with active terrorists.

Earnest stressed on Friday that the detainees released last May remain in Qatar and that their activities are limited. But, in light of concerns about their possible contact with terror groups, he said “those mitigation efforts and those monitoring efforts have been updated.”

Earnest declined, however, to detail the updates.

“We continue to have confidence that there are measures in place to substantially mitigate the threat that they pose to American national security,” he said.


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