'Taliban impostor duped officials'

How messed up are things that you go around acting like part of the Taliban Leadership .


AlJazeera
A man who has been representing Taliban senior leaderhip in secret talks with the Afghan government appears to have been an impostor.

The man, calling himself Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, the Taliban's second-ranking official, was exposed after another man who knows Mansour did not recognise him during a negotiation session, the New York Times reported on Monday.

The secret talks with the impostor had been going on for months and were used by senior US officials to claim progress on the diplomatic front in the Afghan war.

Nato and Afghan officials told the New York Times they held three meetings with the man, who allegedly received large sums of money to take part in the negotiations.

The fake Taliban leader, who travelled from across the border in Pakistan, even met with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, in the presidential palace in Kabul, the capital. He was flown to the capital on Nato aircraft.