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Afghanistan
Tailban's new chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor may have deceived fellow insurgents
2015-08-01
[INDIANEXPRESS] Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, Taliban's newly-anointed chief, may have deceived fellow gunnies for the past two years by claiming to pass orders and messages from Mullah Muhammad Omar even though he would have been aware that his boss had died in 2013, a media report said.

"Yet even by Mullah Omar
... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality...
's standards, his elusiveness in his final years was remarkable. Only a handful of high-ranking Taliban had any access to their leader, and by the middle of 2013 that number had been winnowed to one: Mullah Akhtar Mansour, effectively the No 2 in the insurgency," a report in the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
said.

It said that Afghan and American intelligence indicated that Mullah Omar was probably dead by 2013.
Posted by:Fred

#3  'Decoys will be covered'.... seats are still available for the September Fundamentals class.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-08-01 15:24  

#2  Or encrypted his smoke signals
Posted by: Shipman   2015-08-01 15:13  

#1  He must of used a private email sever to keep his secret.
Posted by: Airandee   2015-08-01 11:28  

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