You've probably heard by now that NATO got totally punk'd by an unknown man posing as a high-ranking Taliban leader. How embarrassing. If only they'd looked out for these 10 ways of telling the true Talib from the con man, we wouldn't be in this mess:

10. Keeps asking if the peace talks can be held in the Maldives

9. Eyepatch switches sides from meeting to meeting

8. Introduces himself as "Colonel Iqbal from the ISI"

7. Runs up a large minibar tab at the Four Seasons Kabul

6. Wife angling for a spot on "The Real Housewives of Kandahar"

5. Claims to be texting Mullah Omar but is actually just playing Angry Birds the whole time

4. Offers to settle Afghan War with a game of Jenga

3. Turban made of an actual towel

2. Wears trench coat, offers to sell the letters O and U

1. Agrees to trade Osama bin Laden for Justin Bieber

EXPLORE:AFGHANISTAN
 

LEANDROMO

11:09 AM ET

November 23, 2010

Insists that local Panera

Insists that local Panera franchises are integral to regional stability

 

CEOUNICOM

1:51 PM ET

November 23, 2010

re:

..ends all written correspondence with a link to lalqila.wordpress.com

 

CEOUNICOM

1:52 PM ET

November 23, 2010

re:

The loya jirga he invites negotiators to turns out to be an Amway recruiting meet

 

MACKIE

5:25 PM ET

November 23, 2010

If Mansour was the answour to

If Mansour was the answour
to the growing Pashtoon cansour,
then we're sunk, because ol' "Mansour"
was no Taliban command-Sir
nor an Afghan peace enhansour,
just some wily fraud free-lansour.

 

CEOUNICOM

9:45 PM ET

November 23, 2010

Groan....

...

 

TAJWALI

2:17 AM ET

November 24, 2010

LOL Yesterday i had a good

LOL Yesterday i had a good laugh over the subject with a friend. I am really amazed at the level of incompetence exhibited by 'most powerful' nation on earth. Y is it that nation that boasts of 'Shock and awe' and high tech Robot...ic killing machines is being almost defeated by a simple nation tht until recently didn't even knw how to use a mobile phone.

A nation that is fighting with rag tag part time volunteer army and decades old klashikovs that cant even be aimed properly. Volunteers that for ration feeds on dried bread and onions, sleeps on the bare ground, under the night sky. Contrast this with the soldiers that they are fighting against on a million dollar are spent yearly and have the most sophisticated weapons known to mankind.

The Afghan freedom fighters even if they dont win, just their holding out to these invaders is triumph on its own. May God bless them and give them real freedom.

 

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