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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul so quickly fearing execution by the Taliban that aides who
returned from a lunch break wondered where he'd goneFormer Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country without notifying aides and allies as he feared Taliban militants had gained entry to the presidential palace and planned to execute him, The Washington Post reported.
The Post on Sunday reported on the chaos that engulfed the Afghan government in Kabul as militants swept into the outskirts of the city on August 15.
In Kabul and Washington DC, top officials had believed that there were weeks before the Taliban was likely to attempt to seize the capital.
But following the fall of the key provincial city of Jalalabad to Taliban militants on August 14, militants rushed the capital largely unopposed.
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