Taliban Spokesman Now a Yale Student
Charles Johnson
Sun Feb 26, 2006 at 6:54 pm PST • Views: 355
If you already suspect that the world has gone completely insane, here’s a story that won’t help you get over that suspicion: Former Taliban Spokesman Finds New Haven—at Yale. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
NEW YORK — The Taliban’s former spokesman, Rahmatullah Hashemi, is now an undergraduate at Yale University, The New York Times reveals in a lengthy cover story by Chip Brown in its Sunday magazine this weekend.
The cover line reads, “He was the Taliban’s spin doctor. So what’s he doing at Yale?“
In fact, the story shows, Hashemi was at Yale once before—in 2001, appearing at a forum representing the Taliban, a few months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
A small clip of Hashemi appears in Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” film.
“In some ways,” Hashemi, 27, says today, “I’m the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanomo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale.” One of the courses he is taking: Terrorism—Past, Present and Future.
Here’s the lengthy New York Times piece: The Freshman.
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