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Jun. 30 2009 - 6:25 am | 5 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments

Meet The Taliban’s Mark Sanford

I received this video from an Afghan fixer named Zia and I uploaded it to YouTube. I can’t verify its accuracy, but since some good friends of mine trust Zia with their lives, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Zia says that the man in the video is a Taliban leader in Pakistan. Those women he is cavorting with are not his wives. When his Taliban colleagues saw this video, they killed him.

It seems that American conservatives are not the only ones in the world who don’t exactly practice what they preach. The Taliban just handle their hypocrites a little differently than we do.


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    This is totally wild. Even if it’s not the guy it’s supposed to be, I’m fascinated by the way he “cavorts.” He looks like a monkey fondling another weird species he’s unfamiliar with.

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    That was an awkward video. The guy is not very smooth at all. If he was killed, it’s a damn shame. I suppose he couldn’t wait until he got to heaven to receive his trophy wives.

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