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Trump’s Word Salad Debate Answer on Afghanistan Deserves a Fact-Check

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Donald Trump claimed that the Taliban was killing a lot of U.S. soldiers with snipers.

In reality, the head of the Taliban since 2016 has been a cleric named Hibatullah Akhundzada .

The Taliban didn't use snipers often, and was more effective at killing people with IEDs.

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