On a winter day not long ago, an Afghan man — a 21-year-old who’d once dazzled U.S. Special Forces with his ability to find roadside bombs — was stopped at a checkpoint by Taliban guards on his way to a bazaar.
They let him go, but within days, the Taliban seized him at his house, according to an interpreter who spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity to describe this sequence of events without imperiling his own family in Afghanistan.
