Make the trade

Taliban want to trade a captured Army sergeant for five of their most important people held at Guantanamo.

President Obama should make the trade, now.

The deal is a no-brainer. We get back Sgt. Bowie Bergdahl, who has been missing since June 30, 2009. The Taliban get their people, who likely will go to the top of the UAV target list.

Their guys include:

-- Mohammad Fazl, a former Taliban chief of army staff and the deputy minister of defense.

— Abdul Haq Wasiq, former Taliban deputy minister of intelligence. He was in direct contact with supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar during the Taliban rule, according to military documents.

— Mullah Norullah Nuri , who has been described as one of the most significant former Taliban officials held at Guantanamo. He was a senior Taliban commander in Mazar-e-Sharif and previously was a Taliban governor in two provinces in northern Afghanistan.

— Khairullah Khairkhwa, a former Taliban minister of the interior and military commander. According to military documents, he had direct ties to Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden and was also a friend of Karzai.

— Mohammed Nabi, former chief of security for the Taliban in Qalat, the capital of the southern province of Zabul.

Make the trade.

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