Afghans bring notes from their terrorist

Andy11M sends us a link to an Associated Press article about Afghans seeking refugee status in Europe buying forged notes from their local terrorist threatening them for aiding western forces in Afghanistan. According to the article, the Taliban doesn’t send letters to their prospective victims these days, but the forged letter can come with a $1000 price tag;

“Of the threat letters now being presented to European authorities by Afghans, I’d say only one percent are real and 99 percent are phony,” said Mukhamil, 35, who has forged and sold 20 such letters. Like many Afghans, he has only one name.

He sticks to a simple formula — accusing the buyer of working for Afghan or U.S. forces — and adds a Taliban logo copied from their website.

“To this day I have only ever known one guy who genuinely got a threat letter from the Taliban. All the rest are fake,” he said.

There is no shortage of customers. With unemployment at 24 percent and the insurgency raging across much of the country, the government expects that 160,000 Afghans will have left by the end of the year, four times the number of departures in 2013.

Even the Taliban admits that these letters are fake, that they don’t do that anymore – they talk to a relative of the offender in an attempt to convince them to stop aiding the Taliban’s enemies. But, then, Afghans aren’t the most truthful race on the planet anyway, so who knows what to believe.

Category: Terror War