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A Baptist and a Mullah Team Up to Fight Taliban

US captain urges Afghan colonel to show faith to locals

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 16, 2009 9:35 AM CDT

(Newser) – A Baptist Army officer has teamed up with an Afghan mullah to fight Taliban propaganda that calls the Afghan army godless. “The only way we can keep people from becoming Taliban is by promoting the Muslim nature of the Afghan National Army,” says... Read full story »

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