Friday, February 13, 2009

Former Taliban leader hearts his iPhone

Okay, so let's file this under stories that I couldn't have made up if I tried. AJE's Hamish Macdonald is reporting that Mullah Zaif, the Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan who is now under virtual house-arrest on the outskirts of Kabul, is addicted to his iPhone. Some background on Zaeef: "Zaeef became well known on Western television during the interim period between the Sept. 11 attacks and the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. He held multiple news conferences in which he both condemned the terrorist attacks and insisted that Usama bin Laden, then a guest of the Taliban, was not responsible. He then spent more than three years in U.S. custody, including significant time at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, before being freed in 2005."

Does this mean that Apple is less likely to be a target of terrorism? And I wonder if the Taliban has their own iPhone applications? Or, as Macdonald jokes, a "Taliban Twitter."

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