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True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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Afghanistan's Newest and Greatest Asset Is Nothing Less Than a Taliban Mander

The pashtou language is complex. It bears the legacy of afghanistan's various occupations in the form of loan words or cognets from other languages. If it's not a cognet, they have to make up their own word for technology. So there was an entire like lexicon that we had to put together via when you're like, intercepting their icom traffic radio. And i think they used to call r p gs giraffes, cause they're long, you know what i mean? Like, they had animal names, and they might refer to a pressure plate. I d as hornets. When you step on a hornet's nest, horn

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