Afghan expert: A spy or fall guy?

IS MICHAEL SEMPLE a spy or just a fall guy?

The tall, broad-shouldered diplomat with a shaggy beard had worked in Afghanistan for 20 years before being ordered to leave the country last Christmas.

The western-backed government of President Karzai said it was taking the dramatic action to expel the Dublin-born language expert, and a Briton working for the UN, because they were “detrimental to the national security of the country”. Kabul accused the pair of holding talks with the Taliban in the war-torn southern province of Helmand.