Is he real or fake? One man or many? Nobody knows for sure about Zabihullah Mujahid. Zabihullah Mujahid has been the Taliban’s mouthpiece for 12 years, yet he might not even be a real person. His Twitter account has more than 65,000 followers, but it’s unclear if it’s operated by several members of the Afghan Sunni extremist group or one. Most suspect the former, but when I called “Zabihullah Mujahid,” the man who answered swore it was his real name. We spoke just after President Donald Trump promised to leave a small contingent of troops behind in Afghanistan. “We don’t interfere in American affairs, so they have no right to interfere in ours,” he tells me, calm and collected. “Afghanistan is our country.” |