Freeing of terrorist who killed Australian soldiers shows how the US gave Taliban leverage despite allies' objections | Ahmad Shuja Jamal

Many prisoners released under the US-Taliban deal took up arms again and then overran Kabul

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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.

Hekmatullah, a Taliban infiltrator serving as a sergeant in the Afghan National Army, was involved in a so-called green on blue" turncoat attack that killed three Australian soldiers in Uruzgan in 2012.

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