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Afghanistan
A Divided Taliban Explained
2015-12-04
You can't tell the players without a program -- and here's the program, all 1700+ words of it. Worth saving for future reference.
[Tolo News] An in-depth look into the Taliban post-Mullar Omar shows how months after the announcement of the death of the group's leader, tension within the Taliban's hierarchy remains.

In fact, since the July announcement of his death two years earlier, the Taliban has split into two groups -- one in support of Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, who was appointed as 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 successor, an the second group in support of Mullah Mohammad Rassoul Nowrozi as leader.
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