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Taliban and Al Qaeda: Putting a fox in charge of the chicken coop?

Taliban and Al Qaeda: Putting a fox in charge of the chicken coop?

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Aug 19, 2021
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Abu Omar Khorasani was taken from Kabul’s Pul-i-Charkhi prison and unceremoniously shot.

The first and only person to have been executed since the Taliban gained full control of Afghanistan, Mr. Khorasani was the head of the Islamic State in South Asia until he was arrested by government forces last year.

The precise circumstances of his execution are no…

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