Posted on 02/26/2006 8:00:44 AM PST by george76
The Taliban’s former spokesman, Rahmatullah Hashemi, is now an undergraduate at Yale University, The New York Times reveals in a lengthy cover story by Chip Brown in its Sunday magazine this weekend.
The cover line reads, “He was the Taliban’s spin doctor. So what’s he doing at Yale?"
In fact, the story shows, Hashemi was at Yale once before—in 2001, appearing at a forum representing the Taliban, a few months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
A small clip of Hashemi appears in Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” film.
“In some ways,” Hashemi, 27, says today, “I’m the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanomo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale.” One of the courses he is taking: Terrorism—Past, Present and Future.
(Excerpt) Read more at editorandpublisher.com ...
yeah. pity about the luck of all those people in the Twin Towers that day, eh Hash?
How is this possible? That being said, I'll wager the NYT thinks this is a good thing.
Ward Churchill would approve.
He must be one of the "best and brightest" who will move on to influential rolls in his lifetime.
"He was the Taliban’s spin doctor. So what’s he doing at Yale?" "
The brief article does nothing to answer this question.
I kept looking for the rest of the article. What was the point of it?
He is no doubt being lionized there for his incredibly brave stand against the American imperialists.
I think what you posted was the write-up about the story. Where's the link to the article?
This is interesting. The Taliban if memory serves me right were really not curious in the ways of the World. MOst didnt even have KNowledge of basic geography. I remember their TV kinda of spokesman and didnt realize if this is the same person he was so young
His road to America was paved largely by Mike Hoover, an American TV cameraman who had met Hashemi in Afghanistan. “I thought he could do a lot as a student/teacher,” Hoover said.
Unbelievable!
Not sure of the article, but my point is that he should not be at Yale studying Terrorism...
From what we know so far, after graduation he would be a excellent employee at the NYTimes.........
But hey, at least he'll be educated in time for the next attack.
If this is accurate about his past, why has the Bush administration not arrested him.
Here is the link.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002074677
IMO, we're living in a Liberal Twilight Zone. People better wake up before it's too late and the Twilight Zone becomes a nasty reality.
The NY Slimes would love to hire him.
I don't know where he should be without reading the rest of the article.
i'd like to know more about this.
No, that's the link to the brief piece you posted that was written about the original article.
Wonder if HLS has run a check on this dude?
Ahh, Thank you.
All of the article that I have read is with the attached link.
Perhaps you can find more from the NYT.
What idiot gave him a student visa?
And the government employee who issued this guy's student visa is still being paid by our tax dollars. Was any of the information on the application even checked and how long after it expires/expired will he stay on American soil? Who's paying for his rent, food, medical, and tuition?
The point is that he's not only allowed back in this country,but he's attending Yale University.
Probably a teacher's assistant.
"If this is accurate about his past, why has the Bush administration not arrested him."
He either turned state's evidence or has powerful friends in the right places. I hope he goes into another "active phase" and is caught by homeland security. Be nice to see this sphincter yelling that we flushed his Koran down the toilet, from behind bars.
I doubt Editor & Publisher made it up.
There is a very long article at the link given by Dog Gone in #20
Must of had some awesome SAT scores. WTF?
I highly expect the "roving ambassador" must have been working or turned quickly to the CIA to save his butt and must have given alot of intelligence.
Thanx for the link.
He likely cut some deal.
After WW II, we let in many a Nazi because of their knowledge and connections.
It still sucks when it happens. There are many other places he should be...other than at Yale.
Anything in the long article that helps ?
Thank you for finding the NYT's link.
"Naivete".....hmmmm, I hadn't considered that.
i'm thinking of Solzynitsen at Harvard...
"i'm thinking of Solzynitsen at Harvard..."
>>>>>>>>>>>>..........
wanna bet this guy goes to Yale on the Taxpayers Dime?
gotta love the multiculture/leftist/Western white male haters ..they get us to support our own downfall.
This is nothing new Mansour Farhang left his position as a professor at Cal State University Sacramento to answer the call of Ayatollah Khomeini to become revolutionary Iran’s first ambassador to the United Nations. This was at a time during which American diplomats were being held hostage in the embassy in Tehran. He fled back to the United States a few years later after falling out of favor with Khomeini and being threatened with death if he remained in Iran. Sacramento State welcomed him back with open arms reinstating him into his teaching position along with full tenure. He now teaches international relations and Middle Eastern politics at Bennington College, Vermont.
Read the actual New York Times article --- it's actually a fascinating, complicated story.
Is there anything useful to post here ?
It's here and it's actually a piece of garbage. It's interesting, sure, but heavilt spun and poorly written.
The conclusion is the Taliban weren't so bad and the "warlords" and opium traffickers who've been put back by the US are worse.
He follows the news from Afghanistan every day - increasingly dismayed, as are many, by the return of the warlords, the rise of opium trafficking, the lawlessness and violence that have plagued his country all his life.
"“I thought he could do a lot as a student/teacher,” Hoover said. "
No one could argue that point. of course, the cameraman, being a member of the MSM, meant "do a lot" to overthrow capitalist oppression in United States.
Maybe.
It was largely for his children's sake that he was pursuing an education on the other side of the earth — for their future and, in some inchoate hope-filled way, for his country's future too. What he often said was that he wanted to be a bridge between the Islamic world and the West. None of the summer students in New Haven knew much about his personal circumstances; of his history they knew nothing at all. He had discussed it with the Yale admissions office, and with an administrator in the provost's office who during a dinner with him seemed concerned that he might be a spy.
Very long article. These features usually wrap back around to a point somewhere near the end. Will see.
"Must of had some awesome SAT scores. WTF?"
more likely he's doing the "football player" curriculum, ie---being provided with the answers to tests in advance, and given good grades even if he fails to memorize the right answer.
Of course, you have to realize that the average grade and Harvard now is very close to straight A's. They give out no C's and very few B's. Recently, there was a bit of a problem because the president of Harvard complained about the weakness of the grading system. The problem has been solved however (the president, Summers, has put in his resignation, effective for a few months from now. The actual incident that caused him to be removed (straw that broke the camel's back) was that he said the reason there are so few women achieving in science might be genetic.)
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