The article reads like a corporate personnel promotion announcement.
Summary: two newly promoted Numbers 2.5 for our guys to play with: Abdul Qayum Zakir, field commander, and Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor, finances and logistics. They replace Mullah Omar's former Number Two, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, arrested a year ago. Now all they need do is figure out how to recruit without acquiring more unnoticed spies, and how to communicate without being caught by spy satellites and UAV missiles. Other Taliban have been promoted to replace Mansoor and Zakir, and others wanted the post. |
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