http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=100829&ran=66583Taliban Yalie is symptom of bigger problem
Anyone who still doesn’t believe that America’s security has more holes than a Krispy
Kreme bakery need look no further than Yale University.
That’s where former Taliban propagandist and ambassador-at-large, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi , is enrolled as a student.
No need to check your glasses: You read that right.
Through the intervention of a CBS cameraman and a Yale alumnus — who says connections don’t count? — the 27-year-old Hashemi scored an interview with the dean of undergraduate admissions and, ultimately, a coveted letter of acceptance.
This is the same Taliban spin doctor who defended a regime that sheltered Osama bin Laden, held mass executions and burned entire families alive. And it’s the same haughty fellow who appeared in Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” insulting a burqa-clad woman protesting the Taliban’s misogynistic policies.
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and catch this:
"Never mind that Hashemi has only a fourth-grade education. Or that you could probably turn any rubble-strewn Kabul corner and find a far worthier candidate to sponsor for an Ivy League education."
the writer wants to know:
"... how did the Taliban’s poster boy not make the much-vaunted federal “no fly” list?"
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