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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Kabul Blames UK for Taliban Imposter


Afghan President Hamid Karzai's chief of staff says British diplomats brought a fake Taliban commander to sensitive government meetings.

The imposter is said to have met with Afghan officials three times and flown on a NATO aircraft to Kabul.

It appears that he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to take on the role. British officials say the money came from the Afghan government not the UK.

But the British newspaper The Times says the imposter was planted by the UK's MI6 overseas spying agency.'

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