Taliban shadow government

"As the United States prepares to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to bolster Karzai's beleaguered government, Taliban leaders are quietly pushing ahead with preparations for a moment they believe is inevitable: their return to power. The Taliban has done so by establishing an elaborate shadow government of governors, police chiefs, district administrators and judges that in many cases already h as more bearing on the lives of Afghans than the real government." Left unmentioned in this article is that Taliban leaders are also attending banquets in Saudi Arabia.