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What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban
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August 30, 2021

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Ian Fritz spent over 600 hours listening in on the people who now run Afghanistan, trying to discern the Taliban’s plans. He recounts his job to provide threat warnings to allied forces as well as all of the ordinary conversations he’s overheard.

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