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This blows me away. As I heard a reporter say on NPR, you don't know whether to laugh or cry.
FT.com / Asia-Pacific / Afghanistan - Fake Taliban chief dupes Nato
FT.com / Asia-Pacific / Afghanistan - Fake Taliban chief dupes Nato
Revelations that an imposter duped Nato officials into thinking he was a senior Taliban commander have dealt an embarrassing blow to attempts to open talks to end the war in Afghanistan.
The alliance helped fly the man to meetings with the government in Kabul under the assumption he was Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, one of the highest-ranking members of the insurgency.
After repeatedly fooling Afghan and western officials, the man was discovered to be a fake, though not before he was reportedly paid large sums of money.