The Taliban

ISAF and Afghan officials negotiated with an “impostor” who claimed he was senior Taliban commander Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Mansour, one of Mullah Omar’s top two deputies who ran the Quetta Shura. ISAF reportedly met with the impostor three times and paid him a large sum of money.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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