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Posted: August 10, 2009 |
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Wakil Ahmad Mattawakil was the last Taliban foreign minister before the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. After the Northern Alliance and U.S. and British forces ousted the Taliban, Mattawakil surrendered in Kandahar to the new government.
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| A split screen shows one of the Buddha statues carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley region of central Afghanistan before and after the Taliban destroyed it, claiming it was an "idol." Mattawakil told GlobalPost he was opposed to the Taliban destroying the statues. |
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| Photo Credit: Indranil Mukherjee/Getty Images |
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