Top House Republican raising questions on whereabouts of released terrorists from Bagram
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The top Republican on the House Defense Appropriations Committee is raising questions on whether biometric data was collected on the thousands of now-released terrorists from Bagram Air Base prison in Afghanistan, and pressing the White House on whether the location of these individuals is known.
Calvert said collection of that data is a "matter of normal procedure in theater," telling Fox News it would be "surprising" if the administration did not have that information available to "identify and track these terrorists."
"Ignoring a problem doesn’t make it go away. You can’t deny that these people were released, and you can’t deny they’re out there," Calvert told Fox News. "It would be a deadly mistake not to confront that issue seriously and hunt these people down — especially if they got into the United States."
The Israeli government ban on UNRWA over national security concerns and links to terrorism began Jan. 30. UNRWA has called the move by Jerusalem as "disastrous."