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Rahmatullah Andar, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 7, 2020, once a feared Taliban commander, is now spokesman for the National Security Council of the American-backed government of Afghanistan. He was appointed to his National Security Council position by President Ashraf Ghani on Sept. 25, in large part because of both his religious credentials — he has earned the religious honorific of Mawlawi, meaning Islamic scholar — and his reputation as a fighter against the Taliban. (Jim Huylebroek © 2020 The New York T

This ex-Taliban commander is now the face of Afghan security

Today Andar is a religious scholar with two master’s degrees who serves a government he once vowed to overthrow

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