Coming Soon to a Multiplex Near You--"I Snookered the Brits"?

It was the Brits who were the first to be suckered by a con man pretending to be a Taliban bigwig, reports Reuters:

A man posing as a Taliban leader who had talks with Afghanistan's president was paid and promoted by British intelligence, a newspaper said on Friday.

British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) agents paid Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour from May this year, believing they had achieved an "historic breakthrough" in forging contacts between the Taliban and the Afghan government, The Times said.

"Far from being a former Taliban government minister, the individual concerned is now thought to have been a shopkeeper, a minor Taliban commander, or simply a well-connected chancer from the Pakistani border city of Quetta," it said.

"The British were convinced of the man's bona fides and flew "Mansour" from Quetta to Kabul on a British C130 transport aircraft on a number of occasions," it reported...

Fooling the kafir? As easy as shootin' fish in a barrel. Can't wait to see the movie--with Sacha Baron Cohen playing the fraudster, perhaps?