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Sources: Taliban May Have Set Up Former Afghan Intel Officer

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By    |   Tuesday, 09 December 2025 07:21 AM EST

The Taliban may have set up a former leading Afghan intelligence officer who the Trump administration accused of being an ISIS-K terrorist, numerous sources told Newsmax.

Sources believe the Taliban has a vendetta against exiled former Afghan government officials who it believes could pose a threat to its hold on power if the former officials ever were to cooperate to build an insurgency against it.

John Rossomando ✉

John Rossomando is an experienced national security and counterterrorism analyst and researcher who writes for Newsmax and has been featured in numerous publications and has been consulted by numerous U.S. government agencies.

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