While most of those involved in the scandal regarding the impostor Taliban leader Mullah Mansour are scrambling to do damage control or trying to figure out where the peace talks stand now that it turns out the leader of the insurgents side was just some guy looking to bilk them out of money, Afghan President Hamid Karzai took an entirely different tack.
He insists it never even happened.
Despite being independently reported by a myriad of media outlets the world over and a number of officials confirming the situation, Karzai insists the entire thing was invented by the Taliban and is “propaganda.”
Karzai added to that the claim that no official in the government ever met with any Mullah Mansours, fake or otherwise, and that the foreign press was responsible for trying to embarrass him. Reports suggest that the fake Mullah was escorted to Karzai’s palace and was given large sums of money during “reconciliation” talks.
President Karzai’s claims of media complicity in Taliban plots against him are nothing new, but the claim in this case seems particularly difficult to defend, as so many different outlets appear to have confirmed the fake mullah story.
All the way through the looking-glass!
So now EVERYBODY from Karzai to the US State Department is getting pwned by Apu- and he's laughing all the way to the bank (probably with a NATO escort, since apparently not everybody is getting the memo on this).
A clear case of "WHO DAT IS?" and everybody get to be the laughingstock.