If you cast your mind back to the end of July, you might recall that interesting time in our lives when that WikiLeaks document dump caused the media to suddenly admit that for some time their unspoken consensus was that the War in Afghanistan was not going well (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/27/wikileaks-war-diary-promp_n_660767.html). They did so in the hope that their viewers and readers would just come to see the bad news from WikiLeaks as a bunch of perfectly banal ho-hummery.But one scoop that Julian Assange's minions didn't manage to land was the one that Dexter Filkins and Carlotta Gall have in the New York Times today (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/world/asia/23kabul.html?_r=1&hp): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been having high-level negotiations for months with some dude who's been pretending to be a major player in the Taliban:More... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23/will-taliban-imposter-fla_n_787589.html)
Will Taliban Imposter Flap Force The Media To Reassess The War In Afghanistan? (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23/will-taliban-imposter-fla_n_787589.html)