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Afghanistan
Taliban leaders DID have huge ‘hawks v doves' bust-up at the Presidential palace before deputy PM Baradar fled to Kandahar, sources in the group reveal – but insist he was NOT shot dead
2021-09-15
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Row erupted between Khalil ur-Rahman Haqqani, the minister for refugees and group's co-founder Baradar Akhund

  • The deputy PM was reportedly unhappy about structure of interim government

  • It follows Taliban being forced to deny rumours that the deputy leader is dead in a shootout at the presidential palace

  • The group insisted he is actually in Kandahar, meeting with their supreme leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada
Posted by:Skidmark

#4  No problem. The Pentagon is counting on being sent back in to prop up the "good Taliban."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-09-15 09:25  

#3  The Taliban tears itself apart: 'Terrorist faction' wins huge brawl at presidential palace and two sidelined 'moderates' are still MISSING as country faces economic meltdown and starvation
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-09-15 09:15  

#2  Well, it's like "Black Lives Only Matter." He made the mistake of saying "Kill them all, but not, you know, all-all..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-09-15 08:58  

#1  but insist he was NOT shot dead

"...Nah, just winged 'im. Nothin' personal, just business."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-09-15 06:00  

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