"I reviewed the statement of someone that a London paper claimed to be speaking for some part of the Taliban. Remember, the Taliban is actually not a homogenous group. And the statement, as far as such things go, was fairly reasonable, which is that they would not trust these documents; they would use their own intelligence organization's investigations to understand whether those people were defectors or collaborators, and if so, after their investigations, then they would receive appropriate punishment. Now, of course, that is — you know, that image is disturbing, but that is what happens in war, that spies or traitors are investigated."
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>but that's simply not what he is being charged with.
I didn't say that it was.
>But again, that doesn't change that they should've done more to redact them.
Correct. I don't believe that they actually have been more careful subsequently, but it's irrelevant in any case.