(Also see Thomas Lifson's blog: "The High Price of Bowe  Bergdahl's Freedom") Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only known American POW of the Afghan war has been released by his captors in exchange for 5 high level Taliban prisoners being held at Guantanamo. New York Times: The five Taliban detainees at Guantánamo, including two senior militant commanders said to be linked to operations that killed American and allied troops as well as implicated in murdering thousands of Shiites in Afghanistan, were flown from Cuba in the custody of officials from Qatar, who will accompany them back to that Persian Gulf state. They will be subject to security restrictions there, including a one-year travel ban. Senior administration officials cautioned that the discussions over the prisoner swap, which were secretly restarted last fall after collapsing several months earlier, did not necessarily presage the resumption of the broader, on-again-off-again peace talks...(Read Full Post)