By: E&P Staff 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.
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.
In his first semester at Yale, Hashemi scored a 3.33 GPA.
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