Expelled Brit Envoys Were Trying To 'Turn' Talban Leader

This is definitely interesting. The British envoys who were expelled from Afghanistan are now being said to have met with Taliban senior commander Monsoor Dadullah in order to "turn" him and basically have him break with the Taliban to set up his own political party.
This does explain a lot - first, the weirdness of the Brits meeting with "the enemy" and secondly, the sudden banishment of Dadullah from the Taliban by leader Mullah Omar.
It turns out that the governor of Helmand province found out about the meeting, and more than likely thinking the worst, turned in the Brits. The irony is this would have been a coup for the West and the Afghan government. However...I'm not so sure you could EVER trust a Taliban.

Here's the interesting full read.

Expelled British envoys tried to turn Taliban chief

TWO British diplomats expelled from Afghanistan over the Christmas holiday were trying to “turn” a senior Taliban commander, it has emerged.
They held secret meetings with Mansoor Dadullah - a thorn in the side of British military in Helmand province - to try to persuade him to break with the Taliban and form his own political party and militia, according to Afghan government sources.
If they had succeeded it would have been a coup for the western allies shoring up the government of Hamid Karzai in Kabul. Instead, Mervyn Patterson, a high-ranking UN official, and Michael Semple, the acting head of the EU mission to Afghanistan, were expelled after an Afghan national “confessed” to Afghan intelligence that he had accompanied the two to a secret meeting with Dadullah in Musa Qala.
Days later the Taliban sacked Dadullah for refusing to obey orders, according to a statement to the Pakistan-based Islamic Press Agency by a Taliban spokesman. He said that sympathisers of Dadullah should break all contacts with him and continue their jihad.

Patterson, from Northern Ireland, and Semple, an Irish passport-holder who has worked as a British diplomat in Pakistan, are regarded as two of the most knowledgeable and experienced political officers in Afghanistan. They speak fluent Dari and Pashtun and have extensive contacts.