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This "Jihadi" is Armed with a Subversive Sense of Humor - Nissenbaum

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Dressed in a police uniform, Aman Mojadidi once set up a fake roadside checkpoint to hand out real money to befuddled Afghan motorists used to paying, not receiving, bribes. Then, during last fall's parliamentary elections, the Florida-born Afghan artist took his antics a step further by covertly pasting Kabul walls with faux campaign posters that featured him in a black turban with a gold-plated pistol hanging around his neck. "Vote for me," the posters urged. "I'm rich--and I've done Jihad."

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