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Many Old Blues (and many Americans) want to know why Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the former Taliban spokesman with a fourth-grade education, is now an undergraduate at Yale. Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas) wants to know how he got into the country.(Brief article)

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* Many Old Blues (and many Americans) want to know why Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the former Taliban spokesman with a fourth-grade education, is now an undergraduate at Yale. Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas) wants to know how he got into the country. Since the Taliban is a terrorist organization, which still murders Afghans and American soldiers, and since Hashemi flacked for it, he would seem to be in violation of the Patriot Act and the Real ID Act, which frown on letting such people visit. Cornyn has asked ...

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