KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- AUGUST 20, 2021: A boy selling Taliban flags, brings his ware towards a military vehicle, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. On a quiet intersection outside the central downtown area, two boys were standing in the middle of the road selling oversized white Taliban flags and Taliban lawn flags to put on vehicles. A coyote brown military pick up SUV drives up, and Mullah Esmatullah Khadir, 30, from Musa Qala district in Helmand province, waves to one of the boys to sell him a flag. The boy runs excitedly across the street. The mullah jumps out and lands on his shiny leather loafers and climbs on to the back of the pickup SUV. He then adjusts it onto the antenna pole on the back of the military vehicle. He grins. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES)
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