Written by Robert Spencer

Why not? They're not the enemy: "Last year, during my visit to Washington, in a very important briefing a day before I met U.S. President [Barack Obama], his national security adviser Tom Donilon, and senior White House officials, generals, and intelligence officials, the national security adviser met with me. He told me: 'The Taliban are not our enemies and we don't want to fight them.'" -- Hamid Karzai, November 26, 2013

"Over 500 Taliban prisoners released from Afghan jails," from the Pakistan Observer, December 25 (thanks to Kenneth):

Wednesday, December 25, 2013 - Kabul—The Afghan high peace council has released over 500 Afghan and Pakistani Taliban prisoners during the past one and half year.
The militants were detained in connection to suicide attacks and other insurgency activities, and were released based on president Karzai’s decrees and on the request of the Afghan high peace council.

At least 536... http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/afghanistan-over-500-taliban-prisoners...