Sometime ya just gotta wonder...

[lsanderson]

Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor
By DEXTER FILKINS AND CARLOTTA GALL
Published: November 22, 2010

KABUL, Afghanistan — For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because of the appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the table: Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, one of the most senior commanders in the Taliban movement. More